Photographer: Pavel Kalachev
Anna D'Agostino is a Ukrainian model and actress. Prior to becoming a model and actress, Anna was a rhythmic gymnast. Anna spent the vast majority of her time as a child training 5 hours a day, 6 times a week resulting numerous awards. Despite her success as a rhythmic gymnast, her childhood dream was to become an actress. Her break came unexpectedly through a friend.
"I always dreamt to become an actress. As time went on, I never thought my dream would come true. My parents convinced me to get a classical education. However, I believe my path was predetermined. When I was 17, a classmate from my University, who was in the modeling business, asked me to assist her at a casting for a TV-commercial. I was spotted at the casting and was offered an audition. I ended up winning the role and landing my first TV-commercial” Anna says.
From that point on, Anna auditioned and won numerous castings. Within the first year of her career she became the face of the jewelry brand Jewelry by Roman Lazar, was published on the cover page of the Latvian magazine Pastaiga.ru, won the people choice award at the beauty contest among students and was filmed and shot in a number of TV and photo projects in Ukraine and abroad.
While pursuing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in International Relations, Anna continued her career as a model in her spare time. Soon she realized her biggest aspiration in life was acting.
In the summer of 2011, Anna took an acting course at the New York Film Academy to perfect her art and follow her dream. After the course she returned to Ukraine and continued her career. In a short amount of time, she got offers to shoot for international renowned brands McDonalds, Sony, Oriflame, Axe-effect, Twix, President, and Kotex. Anna also continued to collaborate with domestic brands and began working on featurettes.
At the end of 2013, Anna went to New York City to master her English in order to expand and pursue additional acting opportunities. In 2015, Anna was granted an O-1 Visa enabling her to work in the United States. This allowed her to work with numerous brands such as Suave, Nine West, Bud Light, Lincoln, Steve Madden, Kendal&Kylie, and Marc Fisher.
In 2016, Anna signed a contract with Click Model Management in order to further expand her career opportunities and develop further as a model and actress.
During 2017 Anna worked with L'Oreal for SkinCeuticals commercial; and starred in an Indian hip-hop music video.
Anna D'Agostino starred in Amazon Prime pilot called "No Clue" which came out in early 2018.
In 2019-2020 Anna decides to try herself on stage, she prepared a One woman off broadway show called “The King’s son and the Emperor’s daughter” dir Franklyn Wepner.
Among her modeling clients were Victor Barbone Jewelry, Christian Louboutin, LG.
In 2021 comes out Anna’s first indie feature film “MidLife” where she stars as Lara character. The film won multiple awards from different film festivals.
In 2022 Anna gets her first acting award “Best supporting actress” for MidLife movie according to the Oaks International Film Festival.