Nadia Alexander

Alexander began acting at the age of six, when she was cast in a Pittsburgh-area regional stage production of The Sound of Music as 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.^[3]

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.^[4] Her first feature film performance was in the independent movie Postales. She 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 Boardwalk Empire (2011), The Following (2015), The Sinner (2017), and Seven Seconds (2018).^[1]

In 2017, she played a lead role in Blame (2017). 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.^[2]

Alexander identifies as pansexual.^[5] She was formerly in a relationship with Blame co-star and director Quinn Shephard.^[6][7]