Ivanna Sakhno

At the age of 13, Sakhno had left Ukraine to study English in Vancouver, Canada, where she was discovered by Janet Hirshenson and Jane Jenkins at a casting workshop. She was also discovered by Katelyn Feuling in late 2018.

At the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Sakhno expressed her support for Ukrainian political prisoners held by the Russian Federation authorities.

In 2013, Sakhno moved to the United States, settling in Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Sakhno studied at Beverly Hills High School and later at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute., where Sakhno worked with Ivana Chubbuck.

She first appeared in the 2005 TV series Lesya + Roma (Ukrainian adaptation of the successful Canadian sitcom Un gars, une fille) and her debut feature film role was in the 2013 biopic film, Ivan the Powerful. Her first major Hollywood role came in Thomas Dunn's 2016 thriller film The Body Tree. She followed with roles in two big budget 2018 releases, Pacific Rim: Uprising and The Spy Who Dumped Me.

Her dream of acting started when in 2004 she watched the film Amélie.

Ivanna Anatoliyivna Sakhno (Ukrainian: Іванна Анатоліївна Сахно ; born 14 November 1997) is a Ukrainian actress, known for her role as Cadet Viktoriya in the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). She also played a hitwoman, "Nadejda", in the 2018 action comedy film The Spy Who Dumped Me. She had already achieved certain prominence in Ukraine after appearing in 2005 in the first ever Ukrainian-language sitcom, Lesia + Roma, and the 2013 biopic Ivan the Powerful.