Margarita Levieva

Levieva was born in Russia, into a Russian Jewish family.^[1][2][3] Both of her grandmothers, as children, survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II.^[1] From the age of three, she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics.^[2][3]

Levieva immigrated to the United States at age 11 with her mother and twin brother, Michael, and settled in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Though she was accepted into LaGuardia High School to study dance, she instead attended public high school in Secaucus, New Jersey.^[2] In addition to working full-time as a fashion buyer, Levieva graduated a year early from New York University with a double major in economics and psychology and minors in philosophy, sociology, and Russian history.^[4]

In 2005, Levieva made a guest appearance on Law & Order: Trial by Jury and in the following two years starred in the Fox series Vanished^{[citation needed]} and feature films The Invisible, Billy's Choice, and Noise.

Levieva starred in the 2019 independent film Inherit the Viper. Her other film credits include It Happened in L.A. (2017), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), Sleeping with Other People (2015), James White (2015), For Ellen (2012), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Adventureland (2009), and Spread (2009).

In 2009, Levieva made an appearance in the HBO comedy-drama series How to Make it in America,^{[episode needed]} and in the NBC drama Kings, in the episode "First Night". That same year, she starred in the play The Retributionists, and made her Broadway debut in Impressionism.^{[citation needed]}

In the 2010s Levieva had regular series roles in ABC drama series Revenge (2011–2015) and in HBO series The Deuce (2016–2019), playing adventurous college student Abby Parker in the latter.

In 2022, Levieva starred as Jenny Franklin in the Netflix series In From the Cold, which aired for one season.

In 2024, she appeared in the Star Wars series The Acolyte as Mother Koril.^[5] In 2025, she starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe series Daredevil: Born Again as Heather Glenn, the love interest of Matt Murdock/Daredevil.^[6]

Levieva and Sebastian Stan were romantically linked in July 2014.^[7]

The actress announced that she had given birth on May 14, 2022.^[8] She revealed her baby was a boy on May 14, 2023.^[9]