Alexa Davalos

Actress

Birthday May 28, 1982

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Paris, France

Age 41 years old

Nationality France

Height 1.7 m

#7058 Most Popular

1982

AleXa Davalos Dunas (born May 28, 1982 ) is an American actress.

2002

Her early role as Gwen Raiden on the fourth season of the TV series Angel (2002–03) was followed by some Hollywood films, including The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), Feast of Love (2007), The Mist (2007), Defiance (2008) and Clash of the Titans (2010).

In 2002, Davalos co-starred with Charlie Hofheimer in the short film The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald, which screened at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival.

2003

In September 2003, she was seen opposite Antonio Banderas in the HBO film And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.

2004

Davalos made her feature film debut in 2004 starring in The Chronicles of Riddick as Jack / Kyra.

2005

She has also appeared on the television series Reunion (2005–06) and in Frank Darabont's Mob City (2013).

Davalos also appeared as the superhuman Gwen Raiden in three episodes of the TV show Angel and in 2005 co-starred in the Fox show Reunion.

2007

In 2007, she was featured in the romantic drama Feast of Love, which starred Greg Kinnear and Morgan Freeman.

She also played Sally in The Mist (directed by Frank Darabont), co-starring Thomas Jane, Laurie Holden and Marcia Gay Harden.

2008

In 2008, Davalos co-starred as the love interest of Daniel Craig in the war film Defiance, directed by Edward Zwick.

She played Andromeda in the remake of Clash of the Titans, alongside Sam Worthington, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson.

2012

She did not return for the 2012 sequel, Wrath of the Titans, due to a scheduling conflict.

2013

In 2013, she reunited again with Frank Darabont playing the female lead on the television series Mob City.

2015

She starred as Juliana Crain, the main character in the Amazon Studios series The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019).

She also plays Special Agent Kristin Gaines in the CBS drama series FBI: Most Wanted (2021–2023).

Davalos was born in Paris, France to American parents, photographer Jeff Dunas and actress Elyssa Davalos, granddaughter of actor Richard Davalos.

Davalos spent most of her childhood in France and Italy, before settling in New York.

She has stated "I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English."

She is of Spanish and Finnish descent on her mother's side.

Her father's family is Jewish (her paternal ancestors lived in Vilnius in Lithuania).

She was raised "without much religion", though she attended Hebrew school for a time.

Davalos struck out on her own at seventeen and moved to New York City.

She supported herself by modeling for photographers like Peter Lindbergh.

"I had a mission," she recalls.

"I wanted to be out in the world, doing my own thing. Working in a theatre, I discovered that I really wanted to act."

Her passion soon grew towards acting, and she attended the Off-Broadway Flea Theater in New York.

She kept her acting plans from her family until her career started to take off.

2 years later, in 2015, she starred in The Man in the High Castle (2015–2019).

2019

In 2019, she has made a brief appearance in The Punisher, along with star Jon Bernthal; both of whom were also in Mob City (2013).

Davalos is a close friend of actresses Amanda Righetti and Chyler Leigh, and was Righetti's bridesmaid at her wedding.

Davalos considers herself to be a "dork" and loves to travel and read.

She guards her private life stating, "I think it's a choice. I think it's a conscious choice, and what you allow to affect you and what you don't."

Davalos married actor Josh Stewart on May 19, 2019.

Both were costars on the second season of the Netflix series The Punisher.