Alexis Knapp

Knapp was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Marjorie and Bradford Elwood Knapp.^[1] She grew up in North Carolina before moving to Los Angeles when she was 18.^[3][4]

In 2008, Knapp hosted a popular internet video series titled 'Project Lore', a show about the video game World of Warcraft, and also worked as a model before breaking into acting. She appeared in background roles in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Aphrodite Girl #9 and in Couples Retreat as a Dance Academy Girl. In 2012, Knapp appeared in her first major roles: Alexis in Project X and the sex-crazed singer Stacie Conrad in Pitch Perfect. She reprised the role of Stacie in Pitch Perfect 2, and made a brief cameo appearance in Pitch Perfect 3. In a 2017 interview, Knapp revealed that playing Stacie was difficult for her because the character was so unlike her.^[5]

Knapp appeared in the pilot of ABC's short-lived series Super Fun Night, written by and starring her Pitch Perfect co-star Rebel Wilson.^[6][7] She starred in the Tom Vaughan directed film So Undercover, as Taylor Jaffe. Knapp had a starring role in the first season of the TBS comedy, Ground Floor, portraying Tori, a party girl, who catches up on her sleep at work the next morning,^[8] but her character was dropped before the second season. She was cast in the Lifetime pilot Cinnamon Girl,^[9] which did not get picked up as a series. Knapp also starred in the independent short film Wracked, as Melissa.^[10] In 2017, she starred as Samantha in the Lifetime Christmas television film My Christmas Prince.^[11]

Knapp dated actor Ryan Phillippe in mid-2010.^[12] The relationship ended that September.^[13] After their breakup, Knapp discovered that she was pregnant. She gave birth to their daughter in 2011;^[14] Phillippe was present during the birth.^[15]