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Annika Boras is an american Actress.

Early Life
Boras was born in New Jersey, she grew up in Bergen County, NJ & Greenwich Village, NYC. Annika's Father Tom Boras, a baritone saxophone player & composer ran the Jazz program at NYU. Her Mother Erika Boras was principal cellist for the Bolsoi Ballet American tour, a music educator in the New Jersey public school system and President of ASTA/NJ. She has one sister Britney Boras, musician, Guitar vocals for NYC band New Myths. At an early age, she performed with the Garage Theater Company. Classically trained singer from the age of 14. Annika Studied Music for one year at NYU, with voice as her instrument. She left NYU to study Acting in London, UK. Graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2005, as the only American in her class.

Career
In television she appeared in The Good Wife, Person of Interest and the 1st season of Homeland. Boras recurring roles in Unforgettable, Royal Pains, Warren Leight's Lights Out and Kevin Williamson's The Following. Shortly after graduating, Annika was flown back to America from London to perform Juliet in Romeo & Juliet at the American Repertory Theater, directed by Gadi Roll. Roll had directed Annika whilst at RADA. Boras stared as Anne Sullivan in The Miracle Worker at the Papermill Playhouse, to critical acclaim, and in The importance of Being Earnest as Gwendoline Fairfax, playing Lynn Redgrave's daughter. Her next Shakespearean role was Lady Macbeth opposite John Douglas Thompson, Off-Broadway with Theater for a New Audience, directed by Arin Arbus.

Awards & nominations
On stage, Annika was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award in 2009 for her Off - Broadway debut in the world premier of Edward Bond's Chair (originally a radio play), staged by Robert Woodruff at the Duke Theater on 42nd st, a Theater for a New Audience Production. That same year she was nominated for a 'Distinguished Performance' Drama League Award for her protrayal of Electra, in Ann Carson's adaptation of 'An Oresteia', a 5-hour marathon performance at The Classic Stage Company.

The first television show that Annika did, was in England, she played a canadian Lesbian visual Artist.

Annika was living in a yoga Ashram in the Bahamas weeks prior to being accepted into RADA's 3 year BA program.

Annika taught yoga in London - weekends, early mornings, and evenings whilst studying Acting at RADA