Tonya Gromeko Alexandra Maria Lara Yury's cousin, daughter of Anna and Alexander Alexandra Maria Lara Actress Alexandra Maria Lara was born in Budapest and moved to Germany as a young child. She starred alongside John Malkovich, Isabella Rossellini and Gerard Depardieu in Napoleon (2002). Lara has a wide range of film and television credits to her name in Germany, and was nominated for a 2001 New Faces award for her role in escape drama Der Tunnel (The Tunnel).