Daria Dmitrievna "Dasha" Nekrasova^[1] (Belarusian: Дар’я Дзмітрыеўна Някрасава, romanized: Darja Dzmitryjeŭna Niakrasava; Russian: Дарья Дмитриевна Некрасова; born February 19, 1991)^[2] is an American actress, filmmaker, and co-host of the Red Scare podcast with Anna Khachiyan, based in New York City.^[3][4]

In 2018, she became known as "Sailor Socialism"^[5][6] after her interview with an InfoWars reporter, in which she was dressed in a sailor fuku, went viral. 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 for which she won a Screen Actors Guild award, along with the cast.^[7]

Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus),^[8] to parents who worked as acrobats.^[9] She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[10]

She attended high school at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2008, before attending Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy.^[10]

Nekrasova first appeared in music videos for alternative artists such as Yumi Zouma,^[11] before making her feature film debut in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko.^[3][12] The New York Times described the film as "a sendup of broke-artist types that shimmers with abashed affection",^[3] while RogerEbert.com commented that "while your comedic milage with its loose goofiness may vary, this movie succeeds in contributing a filmic time capsule" for millennials.^[3][12] She appeared as the leading character in the dark comedy The Softness of Bodies, with The Hollywood Reporter saying she inhabited the role "effortlessly".^[9]

While promoting Wobble Palace at the 2018 South by Southwest Festival, her interview with right-wing media outlet InfoWars went viral.^[5] She was nicknamed "Sailor Socialism" for expressing her support for Bernie Sanders while dressed in a Japanese schoolgirl outfit resembling Sailor Moon.^[5][6] The clip was featured in a segment on Venezuela in an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.^[13]

On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the podcast Red Scare with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left.^[14][15][16] It was described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned."^[16] 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."^[17]

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.^[18] 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.^[19] The film premiered at the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and won the prize for Best First Feature.^[20][21] Later that year, Nekrasova co-wrote the short film, Spectacular Reality, inspired by conspiracies surrounding crisis actors and featuring models from No Agency New York,^[22] 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.^[19][23]

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".^[24]

Nekrasova appears in a supporting role in season three of the HBO drama Succession as Comfrey, a crisis PR rep.^{[25][26][27][28][29]}

Nekrasova has dated musician Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never.^[23] She is a friend and former fiancée of comedian and internet talk-show host Adam Friedland.^[30][31]

Nekrasova is a self-described "Slovak Ruthenian Carpatho-Rusyn Greek" Eastern Catholic.^{[32][33][34][35][36]} In a 2020 interview, Nekrasova stated:

Catholicism is nice because it involves a whole body of work outside of the Bible—it's a very aesthetic, literary religion. My faith is just something that's improved the quality of my life, my thoughts, and my relationships [...] What's so great about faith is that it doesn't have to be grounded in rational thought. We are seeing a lot of people return to religion because everything feels so senseless and pointless, so why not be a Catholic?^[34]

Nekrasova is highly critical of Pope Francis, and has referred to him as a "layperson", "heretic", and "antipope".^{[36][37][38][39]}