Aleksa Palladino Biography

Fast Facts

• Started playing the guitar and writing songs when she was 9 years old
• Played a 16-year-old character in "Manny & Lo" when she was only 14
• Quote: "Reality is hard․ If you're a romantic, you just have built-in optimism․ That's a huge tool․ Is there something specifically I'd like to escape? No, but it's an emotional superpower to be a romantic․"
• Quote: "There's nothing like a show where you can actually see the audience and it doesn't need theatrical fireworks to keep people interested․"
• Best known as an actress for her leading roles in "Manny & Lo," "The Adventures of Sebastian Cole," "Find Me Guilty" and "Boardwalk Empire․"
• Her band Exitmusic released an album called "Passage" through the Secretly Canadian record label
• Played two different characters on "The Sopranos․"
• Stated that she would rather be labeled a one-hit wonder than win a Razzie award, because at least then she would have been able to have something a lot of people agreed said something about humanity
• Prefers Brooklyn to Manhattan because she finds Brooklyn to be calmer
• Would rather live in the present day than in some other time period