Alexandra Daddario is a US actress born in New York City, New York on March 16, 1986. Her parents are Christina and Richard Daddario and her sibling is Matthew Daddario. While her father was a prosecutor and her mother a lawyer, Alexandra and her brother took up acting and are currently doing quite well in the US movie industry. In fact, she had wanted to be an actress since her childhood. Although a US citizen by birth, Alexandra has Italian, Irish, Hungarian, German, and English heritage.
Alexandra Daddario is among the US actresses whose star continues to shine in the film industry. The movie for which she is best known is True Detective in which she role-played Percy Jackson. Recently, her star shone brighter when she was selected to play a leading role in an upcoming movie titled Baywatch. Alexandra Daddario came top of a long list of movie stars who auditioned for the role. In the auditions she beat Ashley Benson, Nina Dobrev, Alexandra Shipp, Shelley Hennig, Bianca Santos, and Denyse Tontz. In this new movie, which is associated with a TV series, she is destined to play the role of a lifeguard named Summer with whom a life saver has fallen irrevocably in love. …show more content…
She later played smaller and guest roles in many films and series including Law and Order. Her biggest break would be her role as Percy Jackson in True Detective. The other big roles for Alexandra were as in the Olympians: the Lightning Thief and other roles in Hall Pass, Texas Chainsaw 3D, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Besides movies and TV series, Alexandra has starred in music videos, a notable case being the Imagine Dragon’s hit video Radioactive. She has also acted along seasoned actors such as Dwayne Johnson in the film San Andreas. As a result of her roles in TV series, movies and music videos, Alexandra became a household name in the US movie