Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva (born February 9, 1980) is an American actress. Levieva was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), into a family of Russian Jewish descent. Both of her grandmothers, as children, survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II. From the age of three, she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. Levieva immigrated to the United States at age 11 with her mother and twin brother, Michael, and settled in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Though sh ...