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Aleksa Palladino Profile |
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Birth Date: September 21, 1980
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Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Aleksa Palladino
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Biography |
Aleksa Palladino (born September 21, 1980) is an American
actress and singer, perhaps best known for her lead roles in
Manny & Lo, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Find Me
Guilty, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, and Before the Devil Knows
You're Dead.
Palladino was born in New York City, where she grew up and
worked as an actress. Her debut role was as Lo in the
critically-acclaimed Manny & Lo opposite Scarlett Johansson,
where she played a 16 year old character despite being 14 at
the time. The next year she was given her first lead role in
the short film Number One Fan with Glenn Fitzgerald, and
soon appeared in Wrestling with Alligators with Joely
Richardson, the well-received The Adventures of Sebastian
Cole with Adrien Grenier, and Second Skin with Fitzgerald
again.
The year 2000 saw the release of Palladino's Red Dirt,
followed by the independent film Lonesome, and Storytelling
with Selma Blair. She then had guest appearances in Law &
Order: Criminal Intent, The Sopranos (where she played 2
different characters) and Law & Order.
In 2003, Palladino moved to Los Angeles, married Devon
Church at a scenic overlook on Mulholland Drive, and began
writing music with her husband as the band Exitmusic.
Exitmusic released a debut album in Fall 2007.
In 2004, Aleksa returned to acting with a guest appearance
on Medium, followed by her lead role in Spectropia and a
supporting one in Find Me Guilty with Vin Diesel. After
working in Find me Guilty, the director Sidney Lumet offered
Palladino the role of Chris Lasorda in Before the Devil
Knows You're Dead, which she kindly accepted. She then
filmed The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the novel by
Oscar Wilde, and was landed a supporting lead role in the
well-acclaimed Horror sequel Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.
Palladino's latest project has been a film entitled Baker,
where she plays the lead role of 'Maggie Collins'.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. |
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After working with Sidney Lumet in "Find me Guilty", Aleksa
was offered the role of Chris in the upcoming Lumet project,
"Before The Devil Knows You're Dead". Also starring Philip
Seymour Hoffman, Albert Finney, Ethan Hawke and Marisa
Tomei.
Writes music with husband Devon Church. They call themselves
Exitmusic, and have an album coming out later this year.
In "Manny and Lo", her character Lo was 16 years old, but
Aleksa was only 14 at the time.
Born and raised in New York City. |
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since February 20, 2008