Olga Koch

Birth Name: Olga Alfredovna Kokh

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date of Birth: 1 September, 1992

Ethnicity: Russian, one quarter German

Olga Koch is a Russian-born stand-up comedian, writer, and actress, who works in the U.K. She is the daughter of Marina and Alfred Koch (Alfred Reingoldovich Kokh), a writer, mathematician-economist, and businessperson. Her father was briefly Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in 1997.

Her father was born in Zyryanovsk, in present-day Kazakhstan. Her family moved to Surrey, England, U.K., when she was thirteen.

Olga’s paternal grandfather was named Reingold Koch. Reingold was an ethnic German, who was deported to Zyryanovsk.