Born Margarita Volkovinskaya, she acted in school theater productions in high school and later graduated with a Psychology/Pre-Med degree from Duke University.
Her favorite book is "The Sound and The Fury" by William Faulkner.
She was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and moved to San Francisco, California when she was 6 years old.
She played a parody version of Jennifer Lawrence's character, Katniss Everdeen, in The Hunger Games for the parody film The Hungover Games.
She previously appeared on a television episode each from the series' Rizzoli & Isles and Major Crimes.