Alexandra Daddario

She has dated many of her co-stars and word has gone around that she was in a relationship with Logan Lerman while they worked together on the sets of ‘Percy Jackson’. The couple broke up in 2015.

Rumours abound that she is dating her co-star, Zac Efron, with whom she worked for ‘Baywatch’. However, there is no confirmation of any progress in the relationship.

Daddario was born on March 16, 1986 in New York City to Christina and Richard Daddario. Her mother was a lawyer and father was a prosecutor and former head of the NYPD counter terrorism unit. Her paternal grandfather was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for the state of Connecticut from 1959 to 1971.

She is the eldest of three children in her family. Her brother, Matthew Daddario is also an actor and she has a sister named Catharine. She has Italian, Czech, English and Irish ancestry.

She was raised in Manhattan’s Upper East Side and initially studied in Brearley School. Later in order to pursue an acting career, she joined the Professional Children’s school and attended Marymount Manhattan College, which is one of the best colleges for fine arts in the US.

She wanted to be an actress from the age of eleven and studied the Meisner acting technique for several years.

She made her first television appearance at the age of 16, as Laurie Lewis, a victimised teen on the soap opera ‘All My Children’. The series had over 40 episodes and proved to be a good launch pad for her career in show business.

After a string of minor appearances on TV shows and short films including ‘The Squid and The Whale’, Daddario first made it big in 2010 with her role as Annabeth Chase in the fantasy adventure film, ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightening Thief’, based on the Rick Riordan best selling teen book.

She also got the recurring role as Kate Moreau on the serial, ‘White Collar’ the same year.

The next year she starred in the romantic comedy film ‘Hall Pass’ and had a recurring role in the television drama series ‘Parenthood’.

In 2012, she appeared in the music video ‘Radioactive’, by the group Imagine Dragons and had a guest artist appearance in an episode of the serial ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’.

Her next major role after ‘Percy Jacksons’ was when she starred in the film ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ as Heather Miller. Though the movie was shot in 2012, it was released only in 2013. She again played the role of Annabeth Chase in ‘Percy Jackson: Sea Monsters’ in 2013.

Her major film appearances include ‘The Attic’ (2007), ‘Hall Pass’ (2011), ‘The Choice’ (2016), ‘Baywatch’ (2017) and the coming movie ‘Nomis’ in 2018.

Her longest TV appearance was on ‘All My Children’ which consisted of 43 episodes in 2002 – 2003. Her other major TV shows were ‘Law & Order’ (2006), ‘White Collar’ (2009 -2011) seven episodes, ‘New Girl’ (2014) and ‘Workaholics’ (2016).

She was seen on the music video ‘Radioactive’ by the group Imagine Dragons and lent her voice for the video games ‘Battlefield’ and ‘Marvel Avengers Academy’. She has also acted in the web series ‘Odd Jobs’.