Nadia Alexander

Nadia Alexander is an American actress who started acting at six, cast as Gretl in a Pittsburgh-area regional production of The Sound of Music. She worked as a child at Equity theaters in southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh Public Theater, and won first place in its annual Shakespeare Monologue Competition three straight years. She moved to New York City in 2007, took commercial and episodic television jobs, and performed off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in There Are No More Big Secrets while still in high school. Her first feature was the independent film Postales, followed by Ten Thousand Saints (2015) and Fan Girl. On television she has appeared in Boardwalk Empire, The Following, The Sinner (2017) and Seven Seconds (2018). She played the lead in Blame (2017), and at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival she was named best actress for a U.S. narrative film. For The Dark (2018) she received a Fangoria Chainsaw Award nomination for best actress.