Birth Name: Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva

Nickname: Sonya

Category: Actress

Born: October 22, 1992

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Astrological Sign: Libra

Zodiac Year: Monkey

Age: 17

Height: 5' 4½" (1.64 m)

Grade Level: Graduated in 2010

Hair: Blonde

Eyes: Blue

Filmography:
"Medium" .... Ariel Dubois (116 episodes, 2005-2010)
Hurt (2009/II) .... Sarah Parsons
My Sister's Keeper (2009) .... Kate Fitzgerald
Medium Season 4: Joe's Crayon Dream (2008) (V) .... Ariel Dubois
Medium Season 4: Introducing Cynthia Keener (2008) (V) .... Ariel Dubois
The Making of Medium: Season 4 (2008) (V) .... Ariel Dubois
Day Zero (2007) .... Mara
Eloise at Christmastime (2003) (TV) .... Eloise
Inhabited (2003) (V) .... Gina Russell
Eloise at the Plaza (2003) (TV) .... Eloise
The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002) (TV) .... Cindy Brady
"The Agency" - Deadline (2001) TV Episode .... Elena

Biography:
Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva (born October 22, 1992) is an American actress. She is best known for playing Ariel Dubois in the Emmy-winning TV series Medium, as well as the cancer patient Katherine "Kate" Fitzgerald in the 2009 film adaption of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
Vassilieva was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Russian immigrant parents Larissa, a biologist, and Vladimir Vassiliev, a physicist. At the age of seven, she was discovered at the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) in New York where she won the title of Child Actress and first runner-up Child Model Of The Year 2000.
In less than one year she had the part of Elena—the granddaughter of a retired Russian General—in the episode "Deadline" of the CBS television series The Agency (2001-2003).
In 2002, she played Cindy Brady in The Brady Bunch in the White House (2002) opposite Shelley Long and Gary Cole; a little girl named Gina in Inhabited (2003) opposite Malcolm McDowell; and The Bad Seed's former child actress Patty McCormack.
In 2003, she played the children's book heroine Eloise, in two made-for-television movies Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime directed by Kevin Lima, with Julie Andrews as Nanny. For her work as Eloise she was nominated as Leading Young Actress for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special for Young Artist Award in 2004.
At age 11, in May 2005, Sofia began playing the role of Ariel DuBois in Medium.
She was a presenter of Family Feature Film on the Humane Society's 19th Genesis Awards in 2005. She won two Young Artist Award in 2006 for best supporting actress in a TV Drama for her role in Medium and in 2010 for best supporting actress in a feature film for her role in My Sister's Keeper.
Sofia had a leading role in the 2009 screen adaption of the novel My Sister's Keeper, written by Jodi Picoult, alongside Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric and Abigail Breslin. The film was directed by Nick Cassavetes. Sofia shaved her head and eyebrows for her role as Kate.
She speaks Russian and French fluently.

Trivia:
She was a presenter of Family Feature Film on 19th Genesis Award 2005, which was broadcast on "Animal planet" on May 14 & 15, 2005.
She was a presenter of Family Feature Film on 19th Genesis Award 2005, which was broadcast on "Animal planet" on May 14 & 15, 2005.
She was nominated for a Syfyportal Genre Award as best young actor/actress for her role in Medium, lost the award to Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe.
Discovered at the IMTA in New York in 2000, where she won 7 awards including the title of Child Actress and first runner-up Child Model Of The Year.
Is a vegetarian since 2004.
When she was 3, she started speaking French and reading in Russian and English, being fluent in these three languages, she now enjoys studying Spanish and American Sign Language.
Started taking ballet at 3, gymnastics at 5, playing piano at 7, riding horses at 10, and recently became fascinated by yoga.
At the age of 13 her favorite movie was In Love and War (1996) and later - Andrey Rublyov (1966), Solyaris (1972), and Stalker (1979) by Andrei Tarkovsky and La môme (2007) by Olivier Dahan with Marion Cotillard. More recently it is 12 (2007) by Nikita Mikhalkov.
Beat out Dakota Fanning to the Eloise role in the Eloise movies.
At the age of 13 her favorite singer was Shakira, and later Sia Furler.
Her mother has a Ph.D in Behavioral and Evolutionary Genetics and father has a Ph.D in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics.
Disney offered a holding deal in 2003, but her parents declined it.
Sofia's Maltese Mefodi appears as the dog in the hands of a Plaza girl during the " Eloise at Christmastime".
By 14, she has already visited Italy, Austria, France, Canada, England, Japan, Spain, and Russia including Siberia.
Before moving to Los Angeles at 11, she lived in Minnesota, Oregon, Arizona and Utah.
She skipped one grade in Elementary School in 1999, before her success and winning the Child Actress award on IMTA 2000, i.e. before her real interest in acting began.
Was born at 2:22 and 22 sec. pm, CDT.
Has booked the part of Kate in My Sister's Keeper (2009) after Dakota Fanning stepped down, upon refusing to shave her head for the part-according to rumors.
Was offered the part of Claire in The Clique (2008) (V), but bowed out due to scheduling conflicts.

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Page Last Updated: 15 June 2010