Sasha Cohen

Alexandra Pauline "Sasha" Cohen (born October 26, 1984) is a retired American figure skater renowned for her artistry, flexibility, and signature spins, who achieved Olympic silver in the ladies' singles at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and won the 2006 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Born in Westwood, California, and raised in Laguna Niguel, Cohen initially trained in gymnastics and ballet before switching to figure skating at age seven, beginning competitive skating at eleven under coach John Nicks at the Aliso Viejo Ice Palace. Her early career featured a second-place finish at the 2000 U.S. Championships, though she missed the 2001 season due to a vertebral stress fracture.

She was raised in Laguna Niguel, California, in a Jewish family; her mother, Galina Feldman Cohen, is a Jewish immigrant from Odesa, Ukraine, who worked as a lawyer and held an MBA, while her father, Roger Cohen, is a Jewish American attorney and business consultant. The family's cultural influences included traditions from her mother's Russian Jewish heritage, which shaped Cohen's early exposure to discipline and artistic expression through Galina's background as a former ballet dancer. Cohen has a younger sister, Natalia, nicknamed Natasha.