Alexandra Daddario
☼ Born on 16 December 1986, in New York City, New York, USA
BiographyAlexandra Anna Daddario was born on March 16, 1986 in New York City, New York, to Christina, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, a prosecutor. Her brother is actor Matthew Daddario, her sister is actor Catharine Daddario, and her grandfather was congressman Emilio Daddario (Emilio Q. Daddario), of Connecticut. She has Italian, Irish, Hungarian/Slovak ancestry. She wanted to be an actress when she was young. Her first job came at age 16, when she got the role of "Laurie Lewis" on All My Children (1970). Alex co-starred, with Logan Lerman and Brandon T. Jackson, in the role of Annabeth Chase in the Percy Jackson movies, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), which were based on Rick Riordan's best-selling teen books. At the end of 2012, Alex starred in the music video, Imagine Dragons's "Radioactive."
Alexandra became more known in the 2010s, as she starred as Blake Gaines in earthquake film San Andreas (2015), alongside Dwayne Johnson, and in the films Hall Pass (2011), Texas Chainsaw (2013), and Baywatch (2017). She has appeared on many TV series, including White Collar (2009), It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005), and American Horror Story (2011): Hotel. In 2014, Daddario gained attention for her role on the first season of the HBO series, True Detective (2014).
In the role of actor
Wildflower – TIFF 2022 (27/09/2022)
A teenager in a coma reflects on growing up with intellectually disabled parents in Wildflower. After an unknown accident, Bea (Kiernan Shipka) is rushed to the hospital, where she remains in a coma. While unconscious, Bea reflects on her time growing up under the parentage of Derek (Dash Mihok) and Sharon (Samantha Hyde), both of […]
San Andreas (01/06/2015)
The west coast of the United States is decimated by a large magnitude earthquake in San Andreas. Ray (Dwayne Johnson) is a rescue-chopper pilot, who is in the middle of a divorce with his wife Emma (Carla Gugino) and tries to maintain a close relationship with his daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is about to head […]
Love Hotel (25/04/2014)
Throughout Japan, there are over 37,000 love hotels, where couples can find an escape from the realities of the outside world. Love Hotel follows the staff and patrons of the Angelo Love Hotel in Osaka. The clientele of the hotel include a middle aged couple trying reignite their passions, a dominatrix pleasuring S&M clients, and […]