Anastasia Baranova

Anastasia Baranova (Russian: Aнастасия Баранова; born 23 April 1989) is a Russian actress, best known for her starring roles as Jennifer "Scout" Lauer on the television series Scout's Safari and as Addison "Addy" Carver on the Syfy series Z Nation. Baranova was born in Moscow, Russia, in what was then part of the Soviet Union. As a child, she began modeling in Moscow. In 1998, Baranova and her mother, Ata, moved from Russia to Minnesota in the United States, where she continued to model. In 2000, they moved to California, where Baranova began her acting career. To learn the English language, she used the JumpStart CD-ROM series and took speech and singing classes. She is fluent in both Russian and English, and studied at Chapman University. She is a graduate of the Los Angeles-based school The Acting Corps. As of 2010[update], she lives in Los Angeles, California.