Born March 16, 1986, Alexandra Anna Daddario has made waves with her stunning eyes and brilliant
acting. Many people know her as Annabeth in the "Percy Jackson" series, which put her on the map.
In 2017, she became a household name with her role as Summer Quinn in the "Baywatch" film,
alongside Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Zac Efron. With her unique characters and casually relatable
Instagram posts, Daddario has been climbing the Hollywood ladder for the past decade.
The actress has loved acting for almost her entire life, and she wants to keep focusing
on playing interesting characters. In an interview with Vulture, Daddario shared,
"You know, I'm a little scrappy and I tend to go on instinct. I'm also constantly amazed in
this business that I have a career at all. So, there's an element of fear that plays into all
of my choices, although I've gotten better with that over the years. At a point, I wanted to
work with certain people, and I think now it's about a character and it's about a director."
A native of New York City, Daddario's parents, Christina and Richard Daddario,
have interesting career paths with her mother being a lawyer and her father being a prosecutor
and former head of the New York Police Department counter-terrorism unit.
Alexandra has two siblings, both of whom work in the entertainment industry as
actors. The trio's career paths make sense since growing up,
they basically lived a real-life "Gossip Girl," having been raised on the Upper East
Side. As a result, Alexandra knew from an early age that she wanted to get into acting.
From the Upper East Side's Brearley School to Marymount Manhattan College,
she pursued acting every chance she could. In 2002, she landed a role on "All My Children" as
Laurie Lewis and filmed more than 40-episodes, thus launching her career. Ultimately,
Alexandra ended up dropping out of college to pursue acting full-time.
For the next eight years, Daddario guest-starred on shows such as "Parenthood," "The Sopranos," and
"Damages." In 2010, she landed one of her biggest roles to date as Annabeth in the film adaptation
of the best-selling novel "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief." The film got
mixed reviews from critics and viewers alike, but critics did love Daddario's performance. In
a February 2010 interview with ClevverTV, she went on to say that she loved her character, noting,
"Annabeth is a very complex, fully formed, strong character and that's exciting for me to play."
However, fans were not so thrilled since Daddario's character on film was
different from the novel's source material. In the original text,
Annabeth was described as having tan skin and blonde hair. In the first film,
she kept her brown hair, but later changed to blonde in the sequel. At the time, she said,
"I dyed my hair blonde for this one because the fans had an outcry after the first movie.
We stayed close to the book in this one."
In 2013, Daddario starred in the horror remake "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
"Horror films are just a great opportunity to lose your fear of embarrassing yourself."
Soon after she appeared in a movie called "Burying the Ex." In the following years,
she starred in films like "San Andreas," "Songbird," "Baywatch." While the films didn't
receive particularly high praise from critics, that didn't stop her from pursuing her dream.
In 2021, Daddario had three projects released. She appeared in the third season of "The Girlfriend
Experience." Then she had the lead role of Mary in a drama called "Die in a Gunfight."
The third gig was an appearance in the mini-series "The White Lotus."
As for her personal life, she's pretty private like many stars. However, on May 13,
2021, she posted a black-and-white photo of a mystery man in her life
on her Instagram. In the caption, she wrote,
"It was dark and cold and rainy today, a terrible combination, and it didn't make
it warmer to wrap him up in my arms but it did make it all seem lovely and nice and joyful."
This sent fans into a guessing game as to who the lucky man could be.
Needless to say, no new beau is stopping her career moves.
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