Anya Bay is a Russian-born American Producer, Actress and Writer. Being a passionate storyteller and a strong believer in the possibility of making the world a better place, she also co-founded Infilmity Productions company. Anya's main goals in the industry are delivering meaningful messages to the audiences, making a positive impact and also strengthening community of female filmmakers. All of which she is skillfully executing through the power of filmmaking.
Anya Benton was always interested in a career in acting and modeling. From a young age, she loved being in front of the camera or just performing at home. Anya primarily grew up in La Jolla, California. In high school, Anya began to work locally as a model and began participating in high school drama classes and theatrical productions. She also took classes at the John Casablanca Academy and the local junior theater school. Because Anya always took education very seriously, after graduating Cum Laude from La Jolla High School in 2002, she went on to attend UCLA where she majored in Mass Communications and double minored in Russian Studies and Spanish Language. She was also an active volunteer through the Kiwanis Family and traveled to Barcelona, Spain to study abroad. Although she modeled and acted through college, she focused most of her efforts on her courses. As a result, she was able to graduate from UCLA in only three years in 2005 as a trilingual Cum Laude student. After graduation, Anya began to pursue her acting and modeling career full time. She began taking acting classes again, doing student and independent films, working on various modeling projects, and doing commercial work. She diligently continues to improve her craft everyday and to enrich her knowledge of the business. She is now working on various acting and modeling projects as well as taking acting courses.
For TV, Anya wrote episode 5 of the AACTA-Award-winning bush-fire drama FIRES for producers Tony Ayres, Andrea Denholm, Liz Watts and show runner Belinda Chayko for the ABC and NBC International; wrote on EDEN (Stanwith Bryan Elsey (SKINS) and Every Cloud; as well as an episode of the much-anticipated Margot Robbie-led SHAKESPEARE NOW TV series in development from the ABC/Hoodlum/Lucky Chap with Rachel Ward directing. She has also been in development rooms on a number of premium TV series, working with companies such as Goalpost, Endemol Shine, Porchlight, Made Up Stories, Matchbox, Jungle and Fremantle Media amongst others. Anya's UK/AUS co-production short film IT'S ME was commissioned by producer Lee Magiday (THE LOBSTER, THE FAVOURITE) starring Maxine Peake and Russell Tovey and premiered at the Manchester Film Festival in 2020. Anya won an Australian Writer's Guild (AWGIE) Award for the first short film she wrote PARADISE (2014). She was one of four inaugural winners of the Lexus Short Film Fellowship at Sydney Film Festival for HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN (2017). Anya's original feature script SERPENTINE was a semi-finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (Oscars 2016), was shortlisted for the Sundance Labs and Austin Film Fest and featured on the inaugural "Aussie" Black List in 2018). Anya's other shorts have screened at Sydney Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shorts Fest, Rhode Island Film Festival, Flickerfest, and the Seattle International Film Festival among others.
Anya Browne is known for Naked Attraction (2016), Ibiza Weekender (2015) and Celebrity Coach Trip (2010).
Anya Cassis Policnick is an actor, known for The Birthday Wish (2017).
Anya Chalotra (born in 1996) is an English actress known for playing Jennifer Ashman in the British TV show Wanderlust (2018) and for her role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix series The Witcher (2019). Chalotra was born in a British-Indian family. Her father is of Indian descent while her mother is English. She grew up in Lower Penn village in South Staffordshire, UK, where she lived with her parents, and two siblings. Chalotra completed her schooling at the St. Dominic's Grammar School for Girls in Brewood. and later trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Chalotra has starred in several theater productions including Much Ado About Nothing and The Village. She is represented by The Artists Partnership talent agency. On October 10, 2018, it was announced by Deadline that Chalotra would star in a main role as Yennefer of Vengerberg in the Netflix fantasy drama, The Witcher. The series premiered on December 20, 2019.
Anya started her professional career at 9 years old voicing the puppy Sweetie in the highly acclaimed series Paw Patrol both in the USA and UK versions of the popular animation. At 10 years old, she made her West End debut as the Bass guitarist, Katie, in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'School of Rock the Musical' at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London. In late 2018 Anya joined the cast of the highly successful, award winning CBBC drama The Dumping Ground as a new series regular Katy White.
Anya Denisova is an actress, known for Ataraxia (2016), Woven (2016) and Orange Is the New Black (2013).
Anya Diachenko is a Russian-American actress. Born in Russia. Anya graduated from The Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute) associated with the State Academic Maly Theatre in Moscow. (BFA) After graduating she got her first role on a TV Show followed by a couple more roles in movies and theatre. In 2018 Anya got a scholarship to study in Institute for American Musical Theatre in New York City. (2018-2020) Now she is living in Los Angeles, California.
Anya Engel-Adams was born in upstate New York to a Jewish Caucasian mother and an African American father. She grew up as a competitive gymnast for the first 12 years of her life becoming an elite level gymnast by the age of 12 and competing nationally after winning the state and regional championship. As a child and teenager she trained in all forms of dance including ballet, tap, jazz, and modern with a full scholarship to the Miami City Ballet. Anya majored in dance and theater at the middle school and high school of the performing arts, respectively, and after graduation decided to move to Los Angeles. After landing her first gig as an actress with acclaimed film director Spike Lee, Anya is living in California where she continues to grow as an artist and follow her passion.