| | Sofia VassilievaSofia Vassilieva portrays Ariel Dubois, Allison and Joe's eldest daughter who exhibits some of the same psychic abilities as her mother, in NBC's hit drama series "Medium." Fifteen-year old Ariel continues to struggle to balance her life as an everyday suburban teenager with her mysterious, emerging inherited gifts. Vassilieva's first acting role came at eight years old in the television show "The Agency," produced by Wolfgang Petersen, where she appeared as the granddaughter of a Russian general in scenes spoken in Russian. The next year, Vassilieva was chosen from several hundreds girls to play the role of Eloise in the TV movies "Eloise at the Plaza" and "Eloise at Christmastime," opposite Julie Andrews. Her additional television credits include 2002's "The Brady Bunch in the White House," where she portrayed Cindy Brady, opposite Shelley Long and Gary Cole. In film, she starred in the psychological thriller "Inhabited," opposite Malcolm McDowell and Patty McCormack, when she was nine years old. More recently, Vassilieva starred in the drama "Day Zero" with Elijah Wood, Ginnifer Goodwin and Chris Klein. In 2008, she portrays a disturbed teen in the thriller "Hurt" with Melora Walters and William Mapother. Vassilieva speaks fluent French and Russian, and is learning Spanish. In spare time, she does ballet, yoga, plays piano, takes singing lessons, and ride horses. |
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