Tsay Nelli
- Actress
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Nellie was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia to Korean father and Jewish mother with Eastern European background.
Through childhood she was trained in piano, singing and ballet.
At the age of 11 she spent a year in Chicago studying English, right after she moved back to her hometown, she was cast as a lead in the TV-Series for adolescents "OBZH" and worked there for 4 seasons.
After graduating school Nellie pursued her acting career in Moscow, while studying in a Theatrical Institute she appeared in several TV productions and expressed her feelings to the capital in the Film "Moscow, I love you!".
In 2009, she moved to Paris to study theatre at "L'école Claude Mathieu", where she has learned French, playing Moliere, Racine and Claudel. Nellie toured with a play on Moliere's life "Babel Molière", received a best actress award for a French film "The Salt of Earth" and started to dance Argentine Tango.
Nellie resides in Los Angeles.