Aleksa Palladino

Birth Name:

Aleksa Palladino

Birth Place:

New York City, New York, United States

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack

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

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