Natasha Kizmet

Natasha Kizmet (born Dec 19, 1980, Bukhara, Uzbekistan). She is a naturalized American glamour model and actress.

Early life
Kizmet was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan and moved to the Uzbek capitol, Tashkent when she was 2 years old. At the age of 13, she started to study folk dances Belly Dance, Middle Eastern, Russian Gypsy, and Flamenco. At 16, she established her own dance troupe. Also while 16, while getting her I.D. picture taken, the photographer said, “have you thought of being a model”? With so few opportunities in her country to model, she decided that one day she would move to the United States to pursue her creative dreams. In the interim, she received her teaching degree in Russian Language and Literature, and taught at a middle school in Tashkent. She achieved her dream when she immigrated to the United States in 2005 to pursue modeling and acting.

Career
In 2006, Kizmet produced and was feature dancer in "The Temptation of Belly Dance" concert DVD. She launched her own web site in 2008, and soon thereafter was approached about making a mockumentary film inspired by “Borat” the fictional Kazakhstan character from a neighboring central Asian country titled Natasha Kizmet: The Movie. Before it gained national distribution, the movie was accepted and screened at a variety of film festivals including The Nevada Film Festival where she was awarded the Silver Screen Actors Showcase award the Fort Lauderdale based Nomadic Tendencies Film Festival and the Los Angeles based MockFest where she received the B.I.L.F. Award The film’s digital rights were then optioned to the New York film distributor, Screen Media Films. The indie movie was renamed Stripper: Natasha Kizmet at the suggestion of Screen Media. The renaming sparked strong interest at digital movie sites. Screen Media was able to secure digital distribution to all the major motion picture digital outlets including Zune/Xbox Marketplace, Out of over 100 Screen Media films carried by Zune/Xbox, Stripper Natasha Kizmet was its top selling digital title there for 1 year. It is still one of their best performing titles. In 2012 the movie was selected by Netflix to be part of its streaming service In 2009, Kizmet was selected by a Denver ad agency to star in 3 TV commercials for the Fatburger hamburger chain. Kizmet also has been a prolific glamour model since arriving in the United States. With her own established web site, she has also developed a strong social media presence following on Facebook, and YouTube. Kizmet has been published 5 times by Playboy’s The Smoking Jacket as well in the Playboy Special Edition Lingerie Newstand edition June/July 2011 “Girls of Denver” In 2013, Kizmet served as the model for the new DC Comics Collectibles: The “Bombshells” Batgirl statue created for DC Comics Collectables by noted Colorado based action figure sculptor T.K. Miller In June, Kizmet was the cover and feature model in “Just In” magazine