Name Nadia Alexander | Role Actress | |
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Movies Ten Thousand Saints, Jamie Marks Is Dead, Admission, Postales Similar Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer, Carter Smith, Paul Weitz | ||
Actress Nadia Alexander at the Netflix Premiere for “Seven Seconds” Red Carpet
Nadia Alexander is an American actress best known for roles in television (Elementary, Boardwalk Empire) and film (Admission). In 2017 she joined the cast of Netflix's Seven Seconds playing Nadine and The Sinner playing the older Phoebe opposite Jessica Biel. She also co-starred in the Tribeca Film Festival-nominated film Blame alongside Chris Messina and Quinn Shephard, for which she won Best Actress in a US Narrative Film.
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- Actress Nadia Alexander at the Netflix Premiere for Seven Seconds Red Carpet
- Personal life
- Career
- Filmography
- References
Personal life
Alexander spent her childhood in Pittsburgh, PA, performing in theater before moving to New York City as a teenager. She graduated from the drama program at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society with Bachelor's Degrees in physics and psychology from the William E. Macaulay Honors College.
Career
Alexander began acting at the age of six, when she was cast in a Pittsburgh-area regional stage production of The Sound of Music playing the role of Gretl. She worked professionally throughout her childhood at most of southwestern Pennsylvania's Equity theaters, including Pittsburgh Public Theater, where she took home first place in their annual Shakespeare Monologue Competition for three consecutive years.
In 2007, Alexander moved to New York City, where she became known for her commercial and episodic television work. While still in high school, Alexander performed Off-Broadway in There Are No More Big Secrets at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Her first feature film performance was in the independent movie, Postales. She then went on to appear in films such as Ten Thousand Saints and Fan Girl and performed in a number of guest star roles.