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Alexa Demie

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Alexa Demie
File:Alexa Demie Honk 2019.png
Demie in 2019
Born Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 2013–present

Alexa Demie is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maddy Perez on the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria. Demie made her feature film debut with a minor role in the comedy-drama Brigsby Bear (2017), and went on to star in the coming-of-age film Mid90s (2018) and the drama film Waves (2019). She has also appeared in numerous music videos.

Early life

Born in Los Angeles, California,[upper-alpha 1] Demie grew up in the neighborhood of Atwater Village. She was raised by her mother, Rose Mendez, a make-up artist whose family immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico when she was an infant and who got pregnant with Demie at an "extremely young" age, as well as by her grandmother and aunts.[4][5][6][7] Demie has said that she "didn't grow up with the best male figures in [her] life" or "much respect for men".[8] She lived in an apartment across the street from a meth lab and next door to several meth addicts, with the Black Eyed Peas recording studio being around the corner from her.[9] According to her, there was frequent fighting and yelling in her home growing up, and she ran away from home as a teenager in order to escape her toxic family environment.[10] However, she has described her family as "very supportive" and "there for each other".[4][11] From elementary to high school, Demie was bullied by her classmates, describing herself during that time as "quite a loner". She got involved with performing arts in high school during her senior year.[8]

While in high school, she spent her spare time bedazzling sunglasses that she purchased from Downtown Los Angeles, which led to her creating Mainframe, a line of sunglasses that she began selling at a store on Melrose Avenue where her friend worked.[8] The brand eventually became popular overseas, with Mainframe glasses being worn by G-Dragon, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, and Amber Rose and appearing in Vogue Korea, though she soon stopped making them due to not being paid for her designs.[12] Also in high school, she started writing songs and designed a costume for one of Minaj's first music videos.[4][13] Demie had plans to become a fashion designer but after attending orientation for an art school in New York, she decided against it.[14][15]

Career

Demie made her first onscreen appearance as a video vixen in Azealia Banks's 2013 music video for her song "ATM Jam".[16][17] After appearing in a short film for a friend, she got the lead role in The Godmother, a scrapped biopic about Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco, in 2015.[13][18] Her professional acting career began with a role in the 2015 short film Miles, through which she found an agency to represent her.[9] She went on to guest star on the television series Ray Donovan and Love, also guest starring on the second season of the drama television series The OA as Ingrid, a bilingual gamer.[19][20] In 2016, she released her debut single, "Girl Like Me", and was featured on Pearl's single "Turnin' Tricks".[4][21] She appeared in the music video for JMSN's 2017 song "Slide" and made her debut feature film appearance in the 2017 comedy-drama film Brigsby Bear, in which she played Merideth.[22][23][16] In July 2018, she directed the music video for JMSN's song "Talk is Cheap" with Natalie Falt.[24]

Demie gained attention with her supporting role in the 2018 film Mid90s, written and directed by Jonah Hill, as Esmee, the protagonist's love interest.[4] A year after Demie unsuccessfully auditioned for Augustine Frizzell's 2018 film Never Goin' Back, Frizzell emailed her about an audition for the HBO drama series Euphoria, the pilot episode of which she was directing.[8] Although she planned to take a break from acting to pursue her music career, she was impressed by the script for the series and decided to audition for it.[13] In 2019, she began starring on Euphoria as Maddy Perez, a popular teenage girl in an abusive, on-again, off-again relationship with football quarterback Nate Jacobs.[25][26][27] Demie was called the breakout star of Euphoria by critics.[4][28]

Demie went on to star in the 2019 film Waves as Alexis, a party girl who is impregnated by her boyfriend, a popular but troubled high school wrestler played by Kelvin Harrison Jr.[11][29][30] She watched videos about codependency and drew on her own experience with an emotionally abusive relationship between her and a high school boyfriend, which she described as "very codependent", as the basis for the film's relationship.[31][6] She also appeared in the comedy-drama film Mainstream in 2020 as a game show audience member named Isabelle Roberts, and made a cameo in The Neighbourhood's video for their 2020 song "Stargazing".[32][33][34] In Nineteen on Fire, a 2021 short film written and directed by Ryan Simpkins, Demie played a drug dealer.[35] Demie appeared in and directed the video for JMSN's song "Love 2 U" in August 2021.[36] In September 2021, she released the single "Leopard Limo (Archive LL11)" and appeared in the music video for JMSN's song "Act Like I'm Not Here".[22][21]

After messaging with photographer Petra Collins in the summer of 2020, Demie and Collins created Fairy Tales, a collection of erotic short stories written with Collins and containing photos of Demie dressed as various mythical creatures taken by Collins, which was published by Rizzoli in November 2021.[5][37] She is set to be a voice actor in the upcoming animated series Fables.[38]

Personal life

In 2019, Demie legally changed her name.[1]

Filmography

Key
Denotes productions that have not yet been released Denotes productions that have not yet been released

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2015 Miles Sara Short film
2017 Brigsby Bear Merideth
To the Moon Virginia Dawson Short film
2018 Mid90s Estee
2019 Waves Alexis Lopez
2020 Mainstream Isabelle Roberts
2021 Nineteen on Fire Paisley Short film

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2016 Ray Donovan Shairee 3 episodes
2018 Love Marina 2 episodes
2019 The OA Ingrid Episode: "Treasure Island"
2019–present Euphoria Maddy Perez Main role; 16 episodes
TBA Fables dagger TBA Voice role

Music videos

Guest appearances

Year Title Artist Director
2013 "ATM Jam" Azealia Banks, Pharrell Rony Alwin
2017 "Slide" JMSN JMSN, Solomon Gross, Ian Randolph
"Angelica" JMSN Cameron McCool
2020 "Stargazing" The Neighbourhood Ramez Silyan
2021 "Love 2 U" JMSN Alexa Demie
"Act Like I'm Not Here" JMSN JMSN

Director

Year Title Artist Director
2018 "Talk Is Cheap" JMSN Alexa Demie, Natalie Falt
2021 "Love 2 U" JMSN Alexa Demie

References

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Notes

  1. ↑ Demie's age and birth date have been disputed online. While various outlets state that she was 24 years old in 2019, an online list of alumni from the 2008 graduating class of John Marshall High School in Los Angeles listed her name, while a viral TikTok video showed her in a 2007 high school yearbook, which would make her, as of 2022, at least 31 years old.[1][2][3]


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