Karolina Wydra
| Karolina Wydra | |
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| Born |
March 5, 1981 Opole, Opolskie, Poland |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
Karolina Wydra (born March 5, 1981) is a Polish-American actress and model. She is known for playing Dominika Petrova on the Fox medical drama series House, and vampire Violet Muzurski on the HBO dark fantasy series True Blood. Wydra has starred in the fantasy thriller After (2012), and the science fiction film Europa Report (2013). She portrayed Detective Dianne Kubek on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked City.
Wydra was born in Opole, Poland. She has one older brother, an accountant, who lives in London. Her mother and father were teachers of mathematics and art, respectively. In 1992, she and her family emigrated to Orange County, California, where her parents set up a successful cleaning business. Her parents separated in 2012, and her mother subsequently moved back to Poland.
Wydra resides in Los Angeles. As of 2014, she is in a relationship with TreeHugger founder Graham Hill.
In October 1997, Wydra won the Elite Lee Jeans Model Look Contest, which was hosted by Roshumba Williams and Dorian Gregory. She has since appeared in print advertisements for brands such as Armani Exchange, Levi's Red, Calvin Klein, Smashbox Cosmetics, Dooney & Bourke, Charles David, Urban Decay, John Frieda, and Kenneth Cole. Wydra has also appeared as a model on the cover of the German Elle magazine and Oyster magazine.
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