Annie Parisse

Annie Parisse is an American actress known for playing assistant district attorney Alexandra Borgia on Law & Order from 2004 to 2006. Born in Anchorage and raised in Mercer Island, Washington, she moved to New York City at 18 to study theater at Fordham University, appearing there in Medea and Antigone. She played Julia Snyder on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns from 1998 to 2001 and received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the role. Parisse had supporting roles in films such as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), National Treasure (2004), and Monster-in-Law (2005). Her later television work includes the war drama The Pacific, where she played Sergeant Lena Riggi Basilone, a recurring part on Person of Interest, and the Netflix series Friends from College. On stage she starred in a revival of Prelude to a Kiss and an Off Broadway production of Becky Shaw. She appeared opposite Al Pacino in Paterno (2018).