Margarita Levieva

Acting

Margarita Levieva

Born 1980-02-09 · Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Margarita Vladimirovna Levieva is a Russian-American actress. She is best known for portraying Annie Newton in The Invisible, Abby Parker in The Deuce, Mother Koril in Star Wars: The Acolyte, and Heather Glenn / Muse in Daredevil: Born Again. Levieva was born in Russia, into a Russian Jewish family. Both of her grandmothers, as children, survived the siege of Leningrad during World War II. From the age of three, she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. 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. 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.

Acting credits

The Loft poster
6.4

For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another.

The Loft

2014

The Lincoln Lawyer poster
7.2

Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.

The Lincoln Lawyer

2011

Sleeping with Other People poster
6.3

Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey and Jake meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a relationship. Determined to stay friends despite their mutual attraction, they make a pact to keep it platonic, a deal that proves easier said than done.

Sleeping with Other People

2015

The Diary of a Teenage Girl poster
6.6

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015

Adventureland poster
6.4

It's the summer of 1987, and recent college grad James Brennan can't wait to begin his long-anticipated dream trip to Europe. Unfortunately, James' plans come to a screeching halt when his parents announce that they are unable to subsidize his trip. Forced to take a job at the local amusement park, James prepares for the worst summer ever, until he finds love with a captivating co-worker named Em.

Adventureland

2009

Spread poster
5.6

A gigolo must contend with the prospect that he has found true love.

Spread

2009

The Invisible poster
6.4

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

The Invisible

2007

Future World poster
4.3

A young boy searches a future world wasteland for a rumored cure for his dying mother.

Future World

2018

Knights of Badassdom poster
5.6

Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Trouble arises when a prop spellbook purchased from the internet ends up being a genuine grimoire and they unwittingly conjure up a blood-lusting succubus from hell.

Knights of Badassdom

2014

Inherit the Viper poster
5.3

Since the death of their father, the Riley siblings have kept their heads above water by illegally dealing in painkillers. Josie is managing the business with an iron fist, when her brother, War veteran Kip, is concerned that the risky business is increasingly turning them into outsiders in their small community. While Kip wants to keep his younger brother out of their illegal endeavors, his younger brother is already making plans of his own.

Inherit the Viper

2019

Behemoth! poster
NR

Gifted cellist Alex Serian returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to carry Alex on an adventure that will change him forever.

Behemoth!

2026

James White poster
6.6

James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.

James White

2015

Noise poster
5.8

A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

Noise

2007

Salted Nuts poster
NR

Two losers that work at a run down taco hut are forced to make one thousand dollars by closing time, or they will get fired.

Salted Nuts

2007

Express 'Moscow-Russia' poster
5.2

This is a story about a guy who is willing to sell the soul, just to dial million views for your videos on YouTube. On the way to his goal, he turns into a fast train "Moscow - Vladivostok», where faced with an American actress, suffering aerophobia. On the way strangers expect such adventures that they lag behind the train that trying to catch up, moving our unpredictable and fabulous Mother Russia - After each of them need to be in Vladivostok exactly 7 days - for reasons which they carefully conceal from each other.

Express 'Moscow-Russia'

2014

For Ellen poster
5.4

After an overnight long-distance drive, Joby has a special meeting—with lawyers and his ex-wife. A struggling musician with the prerequisite tattoos, slimy hair, goatee, and his head firmly floating in the clouds, Joby hasn’t been around to be a dad. Now is his last chance to fight for shared custody of his daughter, Ellen.

For Ellen

2012

The Gymnast poster
NR

An aspiring Olympic gymnast and her single father who has dedicated himself to his daughter’s success. When the young athlete suffers a potentially career-ending injury, their relationship suffers as they fight to discover who they are without gymnastics.

The Gymnast

2026

Magpie: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy poster
NR

In the quiet of the woods and the shadow of her best friends pregnancy, a woman's yearning for a child takes on a life of its own.

Magpie: One for Sorrow, Two for Joy

2025

It Happened in L.A. poster
5.0

Annette might be judgmental, critical, and a total perfectionist—but only of the most charming variety. When she suddenly perceives that her relationship with her boyfriend, Elliot, is inferior to all the happy coupledom she sees among her friends, she decides they need to break up. Launched into the LA dating scene, where film industry jobs, old school bars, and elitist consumerism are the norm, Annette begins to realize that maybe meeting some cool new guy isn’t going to lead her to personal fulfillment.

It Happened in L.A.

2017

The Stand Up poster
NR

After his girlfriend's tragic death, devastated stand-up comic Zoe Hardwick drops his budding career on stage and moves back home. But when his father, the principal of an elementary school, lands him a gig teaching kindergarten, Zoe finds himself standing before a very different demographic.

The Stand Up

2012

No artwork available
NR

The twisted, sexually offbeat memoir by author Jonathan Ames becomes this original adaptation about the sexual peccadilloes of the writer (playing himself) as he experiences masculinity first hand and lives to write about it. Based on Ames' inflammatory, exquisitely worded, and often tastelessly brilliant columns for the "New York Press."

What's Not to Love?

2006

No artwork available
10.0

A young man revisits his past in search of the girl of his dreams. He finds her - and her psychopath boyfriend.

Sweating In The Night

2013