Actor

MARS

Volgograd, USSR [now Russia]

MARS (they/them) is an award-winning actor, writer & producer. As a child, MARS & their family immigrated to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, as Jewish refugees from Russia. Dedicated to smashing the patriarchy, MARS Co-Founded Besties Make Movies.

MARS has received several Best Actress nominations for their work in the award-winning short film JONES. Their film 2 WEEKS about asexuality premiered at the Oxford Film Festival, screened at NFMLA and won Best LGBT Short at Indie Short Fest and IndieX Film Fest. APPETITE, a short film they wrote and starred in, premiered at the Oxford Film Festival. The feature film Triple Threat in which they play one of the lead roles is now streaming on Peacock after taking home several awards on the festival circuit! This summer you can catch them as Jeanine in AppleTV+'s Presumed Innocent.

Notable work

7.8
Presumed Innocent (2024)
as Jeanine

Often works with

Stacey Maltin
4 titles together
Landing Up, 2 Weeks, Triple Threat
Jay DeYonker
3 titles together
Landing Up, 2 Weeks, Triple Threat
M
Michael Varamogiannis Hernandez
2 titles together
Triple Threat, JONES

Full filmography · 11

Appetite
as Tanya
2021
Triple Threat
as Maggie
2020
2 Weeks
as Tanya and Writer
2020
The Incoherents
as MoonBeam
2019
JONES
as JONES and Writer
2019
Landing Up
as Lara/Peace and as Young Girl
2018
The Next Two Nights
as Cece
2016
Made to Penetrate
as Emily
2014
A NY Thing
as Girlfriend (as Margarita Zhitnikova)
2009