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- Nadia Alexander was born in Columbia, SC, before moving to Pittsburgh, PA, at the age of one. She began acting in Pittsburgh regional theater at the age of six and worked in nearly all the Equity theaters in the region, winning several awards for her performances. In 2007, she moved to NYC and was accepted into the drama program at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts from which she graduated as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She now holds Bachelor's Degrees in physics and psychology from the Macaulay Honors College.- IMDb Mini Biography By: P. P. Domingo
- Nadia Alexander is an American actress. She has performed in several television series, including USA Network's The Sinner (2017) (2017) and Netflix's Seven Seconds (2018) (2018). She has attracted critical acclaim for her work in film; she won the award for Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for her performance in Blame (2017) (2017).
Alexander spent her childhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, performing in theater before moving to New York City as a teenager. In 2012, 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.
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 won first place in their annual Shakespeare Monologue Competition for three consecutive years.
In 2007, Alexander moved to New York City, and began doing 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 Ten Thousand Saints and Fan Girl.
In 2010, she made a guest appearance on an episode of Law & Order. Since then, she has worked on several television series, including HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2011), The Following (2015), USA Network's The Sinner (2017), and Netflix's Seven Seconds (2018).
In 2017, she played a lead role in Blame (2017), alongside Chris Messina and Quinn Shephard. The film screened at several film festivals, and for her work, Alexander won the award for Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.- IMDb Mini Biography By: ahmetkozan
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- In addition to television and film, she also performed Off-Broadway in There Are No More Big Secrets at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
- She began performing early on before moving to New York where she graduated from the drama program at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School. She received her Bachelor's Degrees in physics and psychology from the William E. Macaulay Honors College.
- She was born in Columbia, SC; but moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the age of one.
- She stars alongside Jessica Biel, Bill Pullman, and Jacob Pitts in The Sinner.
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