Annet Mahendru

Acting

Annet Mahendru

Born 1989-08-21 · Kabul, Afghanistan

Annet Mahendru (born August 21, 1989) is an actress best known for her starring role as Nina Sergeevna Krilova in the 2013 FX series, The Americans. She is also known for her role as Jennifer "Huck" Mallick in the 2020 AMC series, The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Mahendru was born to a Russian mother and Hindu Indian father in Afghanistan. She had what she calls a "gypsy" childhood, spending her first seven years of her childhood between Afghanistan and Saint Petersburg. She then lived with her mother at Saint Petersburg and regularly travelled between there and Frankfurt, before moving with her father to East Meadow, New York, at age 13, after her parents separated. Mahendru is married to Australian filmmaker Louie Gibson. The couple have a son (born c. 2018). In addition to English, she is fluent in German, Russian, and Persian, and also speaks conversational French and Hindi.

Acting credits

Penguins of Madagascar poster
6.5

Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private join forces with undercover organization The North Wind to stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine from destroying the world as we know it.

Penguins of Madagascar

2014

Father Stu poster
7.1

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.

Father Stu

2022

The Fix poster
NR

Disillusioned by the end of the war in Afghanistan, a group of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operatives set out to Tehran to take down a life-changing score.

The Fix

2026

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover poster
6.3

The Penguins of Madagascar are on the case! Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private are back for more adventures. Honing their commando skills from a secret headquarters in the Central Park Zoo, there's nothing this elite strike force can't handle. But no matter what they're up against, these playful penguins never forget their primary objective: having fun!

The Penguins of Madagascar - Operation: Penguin Takeover

2014

Escape from Tomorrow poster
4.8

In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

Escape from Tomorrow

2013

No artwork available
4.0

Unaired Syfy pilot based on the 2013 cult film. Set in a world that is being transformed by the emergence of artificial intelligence, The Machine explores the epic conflict between man and technology through the lives and motivations of six interwoven characters - each of whom holds the key to humanity's victory or its destruction.

The Machine

2017

Manifest West poster
5.9

A coming of age story told through the eyes of a young girl whose family spirals out of control after they decide to live off the grid.

Manifest West

2022

Return from Tomorrow poster
NR

Randy Moore’s follow-up to the (in)famously filmed-in-secret Disney World fever-dream Escape from Tomorrow is an absurdist paranoid conspiracy thriller featuring the original cast in a completely new scenario. After the loss of his father, a middle-aged dad spirals into a Lynchian crisis of masculinity while on family vacation in Miami. As his inadequacies and unspoken desires drift him further away from his wife, he uncovers a mysterious plot involving his father, the gas company, cocaine, prostitution, and . . . Walt?

Return from Tomorrow

2026

Love, Gloria poster
NR

Washed up child star Gloria Green thinks her life can't get any worse when she finds herself kidnapped by a deranged stalker and held captive with her biggest fan, Dawnee, who seems intent on making Gloria relive the past she's tried to forget. As the two hostages butt heads, Gloria's hapless assistant, Cheryl, tries to track down her missing boss, enlisting the help of the incompetent and dismissive police force.

Love, Gloria

2012

El Padrino II: Border Intrusion poster
7.0

A man who rose to be the most powerful drug trafficker in the world is trapped by the FBI and must confront the man who now controls the business.

El Padrino II: Border Intrusion

2008

Bridge and Tunnel poster
5.8

Unspooled through a series of vignettes, this slice-of-life tale follows a group of young college graduates who are forced -- because of a bleak economic environment -- to shack up with their parents and settle for low-paying jobs.

Bridge and Tunnel

2014

(Romance) in the Digital Age poster
2.8

When the video of a once-famous emo band performing impromptu karaoke together goes viral, a door opens for the possibility of a reunion the day of the guitarist's Christmastime wedding.

(Romance) in the Digital Age

2017

Martin Eden poster
NR

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Martin Eden

2023

The Slows poster
5.3

In a regenerating post-apocalyptic world, the only remaining traces of naturally reproduced life face extinction.

The Slows

2018

Erza: Fear of a Faceless God poster
NR

From New York's unsuspecting Long Island community to a dark decrepit hospital in Hungary, Davin Cortes searches for the truth behind his father's bizarre past. He unveils a debauched world of perverse bliss and sexual terror depicted in a gore fest of horrid videos found in the archives of his father's hidden lair. He gathers the possibility that his father may have been a Long Island serial killer with a trail of death submersed in the bloodletting of an unbeknownst cultic network of serial killers. Davin finds that the mystery of his father's past is vividly detailed behind the lips of a hard hearted young girl, a psychopathic vixen named Erza. She goats him into her psyche while simultaneously haunting his sensibilities with taunts of her wretched vice for blood and butchery.

Erza: Fear of a Faceless God

2009

Sally Pacholok poster
NR

Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.

Sally Pacholok

2015

Grow poster
NR

After his girlfriend dies, a grieving man awakens impossibly pregnant and becomes the captive of her fanatical family, who will stop at nothing to see the child born.

Grow