Alvin Soprano, born Alvin Soprano Romanov on May 16, 1994, in Istanbul, Turkey, is a renowned machinima creator, writer, director, and producer. She was born to a Mongolian Armenian mother, Nourshig Betty Romanov, and a Russian Italian father, Egor Romanov. Throughout her childhood, she lived in Istanbul, Rome, and Moscow, which provided a diverse cultural backdrop that influenced her storytelling.

During high school, Alvin pursued a double major in Literature and Fine Arts, later studying Creative Writing in university while majoring in Cinematography and Animation. Her deep-rooted passion for horror began at the age of five when she accidentally watched an episode of Freddy’s Nightmares. Her fascination with the genre only grew, as she would secretly watch horror films after midnight, an interest her family—longtime horror enthusiasts—enthusiastically supported.

Alvin’s love for The Sims franchise began in 2003 when she discovered The Sims 1 on a family friend’s computer. As a birthday gift, her father Egor, an avid gamer, gave her The Sims 1 Collection with all available expansions. By 2004, she had transitioned to The Sims 2, making her gameplay as eerie and bizarre as possible. She first engaged with the Sims community by posting screenshots of her games on forums and LiveJournal. In 2007, she realized her passion lay not in traditional gameplay but in crafting horror stories, which led to her first machinima, Something Strange in Strangetown (2007), released on YouTube. Encouraged by positive feedback, Alvin continued creating horror machinimas, expanding beyond The Sims into other gaming franchises.

On September 28, 2011, Alvin deleted her YouTube channel, removing all 17 machinimas, and remained inactive in the Sims community until 2017. That year, she co-created a new YouTube channel with her friend Aylin Baykal, producing nine machinimas before permanently deleting the channel on October 3, 2018. On December 4, 2019, she launched another YouTube channel, where she published six Sims 4 machinimas before removing them on March 21, 2021. Finally, on December 13, 2024, Alvin relaunched her YouTube channel with Goodbye Mommy, and the channel remains active, featuring new horror machinimas.

Alvin Soprano writes, directs, and produces her machinimas independently. Jakob Chambers composes the music, and Matthew Gordon co-edits her films. The trio publish on YouTube under the name of Soprano Productions.