Larisa Oleynik
Larisa Oleynik was born on June 7, 1981 in Northern California. When she was eight years old, she auditioned at an open call to the Musical Les Misérables and obtained two parts, both with singing roles. The play was a broadway production in San Fransisco. She played the parts for a year. After that, she
obtained an agent and started auditioning for other roles.
Her filming credits (that I know of) are as such:
-"Dr. Quinn Medecine Woman" (TV series) - SSmall one-time appearance - CBS
-"River of Rage: The Taking of Maggie Keenee" (TV Movie of the week) - Small role - '93
-"The Secret World of Alex Mack" (TV seriess) - Main role - Nickelodeon - '94-'98
-"The Baby-Sitters Club" (Movie) - Co-stariing role - '95
-"Pete and Pete" (TV series)- Small one-timme appearance - Nickelodeon - '95
-"All That" (TV series) - 1 Guest appearancce - Nickelodeon - '95
-"The Swan Princess" (Animated movie)- Voicce of Young Odette
-"Boy Meets World" (TV series) - 3 guest apppearances - ABC/Disney - '96
-"9th Annual Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awardds" (Awards show) - Announced an Award - '96
-"CableAce Awards" (Awards show) - Announceed an Award - '96
-"YTV Achievement Awards" (Awards show) - CCo-hosted the event - '96
- 3 Big Help-A-Thons (Rally days for Nickellodeon's Big Help Program) - Announced an hours-pledged tote board - '94, '95, '96
- Various commercials: eg. AT&T Internet coommercial, several for TSWOAM, several for 9th Annual Kids' Choice Awards, several for the Big Help
-"3rd Rock from the Sun" (TV series) - Guesst appearance - '96
-"Ten things I hate about you" (Movie) - Sttaring as Bianca, on of the main caracters - '99
-"100 Girls" (Movie) - Staring as Wendy - ''00
Her favorite band is the alternative rock band No Doubt. She has a tabby cat names Tigger whom she loves to play with. She'll listen to bascially any kind of music except country, she'll even listen to Classical. But she especially likes alternative, ska, and swing. Larisa has an advice column in Tiger Beat Magazine where she answers questions about the puzzling world of adolescents. Larisa does not think that it is cool to smoke. In fact, she is a youth ambassador for the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Larisa is 5'5" and has dirty blonde hair. She is a part of The Big Help, sponsored by Nickelodeon. She says that she does this in order to encourage others to also join in and help others.
She also says that she is definitely going to go to college and hopes to continue acting afterward.
Her favorite actors and actresses are Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, and Reese
Witherspoon. She is just learning how to snowboard. She is Russian Orthodox Christian and attends the church services as often as possible.
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This biography was put together by me on October 5, 1998 and modified at later dates. It's sources where various bio's from throughout the internet. Notice any big mistakes or have I left out something important: mail me!
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