Biography
Zhansaya is an American-Kazakhstan Actress and Model. She was born in Kazakhstan. She is a second child of two in the family. Since the early age, she showed interest in creativity in various arts. At the age of 12, she had the most interest in playing instruments as Dombura, which she had professionally played about 4 years for national orchestra of South Kazakhstan. Growing up, she wanted to concentrate on her dream passion, acting. During school years, she was a host for all the school events and actively attended the theatrical shows. She had received a recognition award for theatrical performance in big stage from Shanin Kazakhstan Theater. Chasing her dreams, she moved to Los Angeles, USA, at the age of 18. Followed by three years; she had received her higher education in Communications and minor in Performing Arts. She landed many various roles at the Haugh Performing ArtsTheater, CA. Also, during college she was nominated and won 1st place for Future Writer as a journalist. Zhansaya's first job in entertainment industry of Hollywood was Los Angeles Fashion Week 2014 Fall, where she was only petite runway model. Her first roles was just featuring as many aspiring actors in Hollywood for TV Show Catching Kelce on E! Catch TV Series, Hip-Hop Squares, Blackish, Reality High-Netflix, This is Us, Snatched and more. Her debut role on big screen was Super Bowl 2017 commercial as one of the starring role, which aired in the USA. Soon after, Zhansaya worked on Google Worldwide Pilot Commercial as one of the main cast, herself in pom-pom costume. Filming this commercial, Zhansaya caught attention of directors and producers receiving another offer to shoot additional commercial for Google, where she not only had to act, but mainly dance. She has appeared on Code Black TV Series from CBS for the last two episodes of Season 2, (2016). She took all the opportunities that came the way, so she booked a guest star as herself, angel energy healer, in future film, Discovery of the Secret. She appeared on Caraoke ShowDown (2016) first season with small role as herself singing karaoke. She had also appeared on Animal Nation with Anthony Anderson episode 9 as guest in Animal Planet (2016). In 2017 she became face for IT Cosmetics brand and Organic Permanent Make Up Infomercials. She had an honor to work alongside with actors such Dwayne Johnson on episode of hit tv series Ballers and with Nick Canon for VH1 Masquerade Ball. Young and passionate for her career, Zhansaya has simultaneously continued her acting in Kazakhstan. With her acting experiences before, she had landed a lead cast in "Abzal Zhan" TV Series on Khabar, National TV Chanel of Kazakhstan. This series was based on Ukrainian TV series. She played a Sholpan, surrogate mother, who carries her unborn baby to give to her to boyfriend's wife, who cannot have child. She hopes that way her boyfriend, Kurmet, would leave his wife and marry Sholpan. But, the drama ends with Kurmet not staying with neither of his women. Next, she was casted for leading role for another hit TV series "Zhumbak Tagdur" Season 1 2017 on "Almaty TV" Kazakhstan. This was another drama, where she starred as Aiganum, the girl who gets married young, and at the end goes through divorce. The same year, she also was a guest star in comedy TV Series "OryStar" on KTK TV chanel of Kazakhstan and "Hashtegnutie" on Darplay app. Zhansaya continues her acting career internationally.
