Daria Dmitrievna " Dasha" Nekrasova (born February 19, 1991) is an American actress, filmmaker, and co-host of the Red Scare podcast with Anna Khachiyan, based in Dimes Square, New York City.
In 2018, she became known as "Sailor Socialism" after her interview with an InfoWars reporter, in which she was dressed in a sailor fuku, went viral video. In 2021, she made her directorial debut with the horror film The Scary of Sixty-First, for which she won the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and appeared in a recurring role on the TV series Succession.
Nekrasova graduated high school in 2008 at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts. She later attended Berkeley City College and transferred to Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy and graduated in 2012. The focus of her study was 19th century German philosophy, in particular Friedrich Nietzsche, which she said influenced her "less politically as it did aesthetically".
While promoting Wobble Palace at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival, her interview with right-wing media outlet Infowars went Viral video. She was nicknamed "Sailor Socialism" for expressing her support for Bernie Sanders while dressed in a Japanese schoolgirl outfit resembling Sailor Moon. The clip was featured in a segment on Venezuela in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left. It was described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned." Daily Dot said the show's "schtick" had been summed up by former congressional staffer Simone Norman, as "when hot mean girls become public leftists."
In February 2019, Nekrasova appeared – alongside Khachiyan – as a runway model at the Marlborough art gallery in Manhattan showcasing the Fall 2019 collection designed by Rachel Comey. In 2020, Nekrasova made her directorial debut with The Scary of Sixty-First, a thriller co-written with Madeline Quinn, and inspired by the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The film premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and won the prize for Best First Feature. Later that year, Nekrasova co-wrote the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracy theories surrounding and featuring models from No Agency New York, and directed the November 6, 2020 video performance of Oneohtrix Point Never's "I Don't Love Me Anymore" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In November 2021, Nekrasova posted to Instagram a photo of herself with Alex Jones, the host of Infowars, and subsequently praised Jones on her podcast Red Scare as "an incredible entertainer".
Nekrasova appears in a supporting role in season three of the HBO drama Succession as Comfrey, a crisis PR rep.
In February 2024 it was reported that Nekrasova would be an inspiration for a track on Charli XCX forthcoming sixth album. This was then confirmed by Nekrasova in June on her podcast as being the track Mean Girls, stating "Yeah, the Charli song is kind of like a party girl anthem. It’s a great song. She sent it to me a couple of months ago and told me about it."
Nekrasova married visual artist Reilly Sinanan in May 2025, with whom she was pictured on social media in 2024 shooting target practice at a dummy dressed in a keffiyeh.
In March 2023, she and Khachiyan attended a New York Young Republican Club party featuring Roger Stone, and in 2025 she attended a party in celebration of Trump's inauguration alongside right-wing figures such as Steve Bannon and Curtis Yarvin.
In January 2025, Nekrasova said that she hoped Trump would withdraw military aid for Ukraine, as he had promised during the election, and hoped that he "ends the war". She said this was a reason she had voted for Trump.
In a 2020 interview, Nekrasova stated:
Nekrasova was highly critical of Pope Francis, referring to him as a "layperson", "heretic", and "antipope", and has discussed on her podcast the topic of sedevacantism, the belief that all popes since Pope John XXIII are invalid as a result of the Second Vatican Council. Nekrasova has said that Jews and Freemasonry "infiltrated the Catholic church a long time ago", and that it would not be possible to "get rid of" them.
2015 | The Eating Place | Fiona | Short | |
Hypochrondria | Belinda | Short | ||
The Lotus Gun | Daphine | Short | ||
2016 | The Sound of Blue, Green and Red | Jenny | Short | |
2017 | That Abominable Mystery | Alex | Short | |
My Boss Told Me to Have a Good Day, so I Went Home | Herself | Fashion film created for FFFM 2017 | ||
The Art of Eating | Lily | Short | ||
Prowler | The Nurse | Short | ||
Normalize | Ms. Push Buttons | Short | ||
The Darby Bonarsky Story | Darby Bonarsky | Short; also co-writer | ||
2018 | Nothing Bad Will Happen | Woman | Short | |
Wobble Palace | Jane | Also co-writer | ||
The Ghost Who Walks | Mitzie | |||
2020 | PVT Chat | QT4U | ||
2021 | The Scary of Sixty-First | The Girl | Also writer and director | |
2023 | Bad Behaviour | Beverly Woods | ||
The Beast | Dakota | |||
2024 | The Code | Celine Unger | ||
www.RachelOrmont.com | Darci | |||
2025 | Materialists | Daisy | ||
2014 | "Don't Care" | Antwon (feat. Sad Andy) | |
"Basements" | Future Death | ||
"The Brae" | Yumi Zouma | ||
"A Long Walk Home for Parted Lovers" | Yumi Zouma | ||
2015 | "Prolog" | Tocotronic | |
"Rebel Boy" | Tocotronic | ||
2016 | "I Don't Love You" | DJDS | |
"Taking What's Not Yours" | TV Girl | ||
"Vinaigrette" | Gonjasufi | ||
2019 | Disco Elysium | Klaasje Amandou | Voice; original release only, replaced in The Final Cut | |
2021 | Berlin International Film Festival | Best First Feature Award | The Scary of Sixty-First |
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