She is recognized for having started her acting career soon after graduating from college. Elika worked as a producer on the 2008 film Tricks of Love, in which she also played the character of Dessi. She made another comedy film, Immigration Tango, in 2010, for which she got numerous prizes and international fame after the film gained a lot of affection and attention from fans. She was the producer of Voices in 2014, and in 2017, she directed The 6th Amendment, a short play on history. Elika Portnoy made her acting debut in the 2008 film A Close Shave, where she played the wife.
She portrayed Elena Dubrovnik in Immigration Tango and a Fashionable Woman in Leather, both of which were released in 2010. She went on to play Melanie in Beyond Control and Victoria Denev in Assassin’s Bullet, both of which were published in 2012. In 2015, she appeared in The Driftless Area as the Tragic Woman and Mere et Fille, California Dream as the Waitress. She starred as Larissa in the popular film Obsession in 2019. She was the executive producer of the newly released film Silk Road, set in 2021.
