Olga Tchakova, better known professionally as Olga Fonda, is a Russian-born American film and television actress and model.

Olga Tchakova was born in the Siberian region of Russia and then lived in Ukhta,in the country's Komi Republic. She moved to Maine in the United States for a year at age 14, as an exchange student living with the Auclair family in East Winthrop, Maine, while attending Winthrop High School from 1996 to 1997. She returned to attend the University of Maine at Augusta, majoring in financial management.