Lukerya Nikolaevna Ilyashenko was born on June 9, 1989, in Samara, Russia. She trained in ballet at the Irina Tikhomirova Ballet School in Moscow and graduated from the Herman Sidakov School of Drama around 2012. She has acted in films and TV shows including Dance to Death (2017), The Blackout (2019), Ghost (2019), and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
In addition to acting, she performs as a DJ under the name “DJ Lusha” at nightclubs in Russia. She shares modeling photos on social media and has a significant following. She married Alexander Malenkov, editor-in-chief of Maxim, in 2019 and lives with a long-haired gray cat named Khakusan.
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