Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, actress, and writer best known for her correspondent work on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for almost 9 years. She was the Phony Photo Booth, which turned into the show’s longest-running comedy piece. (that didn’t have Jay in it). Kira teams up with Jay Leno again in the You Bet Your Life game show reboot, which is now in syndication on FOX.

Kira has a half-hour stand-up special on Showtime called Here Comes Trouble and a one-hour stand-up special on Amazon called You Did This To Me. She’s the sidekick to host Donald Faison on the Netflix game show Winsanity, and she’s been a recurring comedian on several FOX television shows: Punchline and The Drama. Kira was a series regular on two seasons of TruTV’s How To Be A Grownup and also shot two seasons of the Facebook series The Turndown, which was shot exclusively in a bed.

Many fans remember her from the hidden camera show Girls Behaving Badly, where she was a series regular for 4 seasons. Kira has been featured on Comedy Central, NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Nickelodeon, and several Disney shows, and one of her most unique claim-to-fame moments came when Hell’s Kitchen made her the “prize” for the winning team of chefs who got a night out at The Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip.

Kira was born in the former Soviet Union, traded for grains from the United States, and immigrated to America when she was two. Kira honed her comedy chops throughout grade school and until high school graduation. It’s incredible how telling an angry principal a few jokes can get you out of serious trouble.