Sonya Kraus is a German television presenter and former model. Aged four, Kraus started ballet school which eventually led her to music school in Frankfurt. She ended her ballet career in 1987 when she grew too tall, reaching 1.77 m at the time. In 1992, she finished her Abitur / university-entrance diploma and started working as a professional model until 1994.
In the beginning of the older tv series Mama's family, the son's daughter is named Sonya.
― Anonymous User 1/23/2007
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If you saw the series finale episode of "Mad About You", you'll always remember this name. The epsiode told the life story of Paul and Jamie Buchman's now-grown daughter, Mabel, in flashback. In the scene showing her as a snarling, confrontational twelve-year-old, Mabel, who was named by her grandmother as an mnemonic of Mothers Always Bring Extra Love, announces she is changing her name to Sonya, for Some Other Name, You A***.
Sonya Aurora Madan was the singer in the indie band Echobelly.
― Anonymous User 12/22/2005
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In the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sonya was a reluctant prostitute, the confessor of the main character (Rodya), and a symbol of the idea that suffering has redemptive power. The name Sonya was an alternative for the character's given name, Sofya.