Alexandra Daddario was born in New York on March 16th, 1986. The eldest child of Christina, a lawyer, and Richard, a former head of the New York City Police Department counter terrorism unit and now a prosecutor. She has a younger sister, Catharine, and a younger brother, Matthew; they have Czech, Italian, English, and Irish ancestry.
Daddario grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and attended Brearley School and the Professional Children’s School. She has always wanted to be an actress since she was young. Alexandra subsequently attended Marymount Manhattan College before dropping out to pursue acting as a full-time job.
Internet Chick Daddario, is now 36, made her television debut as Laurie Lewis on the daytime soap “All My Children” when she was just 16. She then made guest appearances on Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and appeared in the pilot for Conviction and in the episode “Johnny Cakes” of The Sopranos.
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Alexandra Daddario had a minor role in the Noah Baumbach divorce dramedy The Squid and the Whale in 2005. Her subsequent credits include a role in Ethan Hawke’s The Hottest State, the horror film The Attic, and the independent drama The Babysitters opposite John Leguizamo and Cynthia Nixon.
Yet Alexandra’s first significant role was in 2010, when she played Athena’s demigod daughter, Annabeth Chase, in the fantasy-adventure “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” The film, which was based on the bestselling YA novel of the same name, featured a star-studded cast that included Logan Lerman, Rosario Dawson, Uma Thurman, Catherine Keener, Pierce Brosnan, and Steve Coogan. The actress returned to play the character in the 2013 sequel “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” also the last film in the series.
Alexandra Daddario Film Career
Daddario’s other film credits include horror, such as “Bereavement” and “Texas Chainsaw 3D,” as well as a supporting turn in the Farrelly brothers comedy “Hall Passage,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Owen Wilson. She appeared in the zombie comedy “Burying the Ex” in 2014, and in 2015, she starred alongside Dwayne Johnson in the disaster film “San Andreas.”
After that, Alexandra starred in the Nicholas Sparks romantic drama The Choice, the Baywatch adaptation opposite Zac Efron, sex Comedy The Layover alongside model Kate Upton, psychological thriller Night Hunter, and mystery We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
Later film credits for Daddario include: “Lost Transmissions” and “Lost Girls & Love Hotels.” The actress also produced and starred in a 2019 slasher film, We Summon the Darkness. Also that year, she executive-produced and acted in Can You Keep a Secret?, a rom-com adaptation of the book with the same name. Alexandra also appeared in the 2020 dystopian film Songbird, which became the first film shot in Los Angeles during the COVID pandemic.
Alexandra Daddario’s Television Career
Daddario followed up in a slew of guest spots on “Damages,” “Life on Mars,” and “Nurse Jackie,” before landing a recurring gig on the USA Network’s police drama series “White Collar,” as the love interest of Matt Bomer’s main character, in 2009.
After that, she also appeared quite a bit on the NBC series Parenthood. Alexandra had guest roles in the FX comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in 2012, the Fox sitcom New Girl, and the HBO crime anthology series True Detective in 2014; and starred in the FX series Married in 2014. In the former, Daddario portrayed Lisa Tragnetti, a court reporter conducting an affair with one of the series’ leads.
Alexandra previously starred in three episodes of the anthology series “American Horror Story: Hotel” in 2015 as a fictional version of famed costume designer Natacha Rambova. Other recent TV credits include the comedy “The Last Man on Earth,” the animated sketch series “Robot Chicken,” and the sitcom “Workaholics.”
In 2019, she joined the ensemble cast of the anthology streaming series Why Women Kill, alongside Lucy Liu and Ginnifer Goodwin. Daddario played an undetermined role on the 2021 Starz network series ‘The Girlfriend Experience’, followed by her portrayal of Rachel Patton on HBO’s ‘The White Lotus.’
Alexandra Daddario’s Personal Life
Daddario began dating actor Logan Lerman after they met on the set of Percy Jackson in 2010. The two were said to have been engaged for a short while before splitting in 2015. A bit after that, Alexandra started dating lawyer and TV host Ari Melber. They eventually broke up, and in 2019, Daddario began dating actor Brendan Wallace.
Alexandra is also rumored to have previously dated Trey Songz, Jason Fuchs, and Zac Efron. Daddario has been engaged to producer Andrew Form since December 2021. They got married in June 2022 and had their first child together on Halloween 2024.
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Alexandra Daddario is an uptown hand model and carries an estimated net worth of $8 million. Alexandra Daddario became well-known for her role as Annabeth Chase in the film adaptations of the “Percy Jackson” series. Since then, Davis has appeared in films such as Hall Pass, San Andreas, Baywatch, and We Summon the Darkness. And Daddario has done episodic work on shows like It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, True Detective, New Girl, and The White Lotus.
