Alexa Swinton

Last updated
Alexa Swinton
Born (2009-07-02) July 2, 2009 (age 14)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, singer, songwriter
Years active2012–present

Alexa Skye Swinton is an American actor, singer and songwriter. [1] [2] [3] [4] She appeared in a lead role as Piper in the 13-episode ABC Prime Time series called Emergence , [5] has a recurring role as Eva Rhoades in Billions , [6] and the HBO series And Just Like That... , where she plays the character of Rock Goldenblatt. [7] She appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's Old , playing the role of Young Maddox. [8] [9]

Contents

Career

Swinton originated the role of Addie in Make Believe, written by Bess Wohl, and directed by Jackson Gay at the Hartford Stage. [10] Swinton's first leading role in television was as Piper in Emergence. [5] The show ran for 13 episodes from 2019 to 2020. [11] She first performed her original song "You, Me and My Purple Docs" publicly on Canadian TV station CHCH-DT in Hamilton, Ontario. [12] Swinton has a recurring role as Eva Rhoades, the daughter of main characters Chuck and Wendy Rhoades in Showtime's television drama Billions . [9] [13] She acted in M. Night Shyamalan's feature film Old playing the role of young Maddox. [9]

She plays the recurring role of Rock Goldenblatt, child of Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the HBO series And Just Like That... [9] [14] Swinton's role has been called "groundbreaking". [15]

Personal life

Swinton is of Scottish heritage and is distantly related to the actress Tilda Swinton. She is Jewish, as is her mother. [16]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012 River of Fundament Norman Mailer's daughterFeature Film
2014Little Brain SurgeriesGirl from the VisionShort
2017Speed of LightYoung RoseShort
2018I've Lost HerYoung MaggieShort
2018NettlesSamShort
2018BeLovedJuliaShort
2019ReverbAnnieShort
2019Sometime Other Than NowMollyFeature Film
2021 Old Young MaddoxFeature Film
2022Love's Baby SoftDoloresShort
2023 Maestro Nina BernsteinFeature Film

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2012MythosEllie4 Episodes
2014Zach Fox ShowKid Playing with Toy
2015 Flesh and Bone Young ClaireScorched Earth
2015 Today Badly Behaving ChildRossen Reports
2015 The View HerselfModeling appearance
2016 Saturday Night Live Daughter of Big FamilySelena Gomez Guest Host
2016–2023 Billions Eva RhoadesAppears in multiple episodes each season
2017 Saturday Night Live Girl in Immigration LineAlec Baldwin Guest Host
2018 The Tonight Show Punk KidIce Cube / Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2019 Manifest ChloeUpgrade
2019–2020 Emergence PiperSeries appeared on ABC television in the USA and other networks around the world including CTV in Canada.
2021– And Just Like That... Rock Goldenblatt17 Episodes

Theater

YearTitleRoleNotes
2016Annie WarbucksMollySignature Theatre
2017Madeline's ChristmasAnneLion Theatre
2017Kooky SpookYoung InnaDuke Theatre
2017Santa Doesn't Come to the Holiday InnDaughter Ensemble Studio Theatre
2017The Department PartyViolet Playwright Horizons
2018Make BelieveAddie Hartford Stage

Discography

Studio recording

Related Research Articles

<i>Sex and the City</i> American TV series

Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO. An adaptation of Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name, the series premiered in the United States on June 6, 1998, and concluded on February 22, 2004, with 94 episodes broadcast over six seasons. Throughout its development, the series received contributions from various producers, screenwriters, and directors, principally Michael Patrick King.

Merrin Melissa Dungey is an American film and television actress, known for her roles on the television series The King of Queens, Alias, Malcolm in the Middle, Summerland, Conviction, The Resident and The Fix. She also appeared as Ursula on Once Upon a Time. From 2022 to 2023, Dungey played series regular Kam in Shining Vale.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexa PenaVega</span> American actress (born 1988)

Alexa Ellesse PenaVega is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Carmen Cortez in the first four Spy Kids films and Julie Corky in the 2004 film Sleepover. In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & the Rockits.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lori Petty</span> American actress (born 1963)

Lori Petty is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1990 comedy film Cadillac Man and later starred in films Point Break (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), Free Willy (1993), The Glass Shield (1994) and played the title role in Tank Girl (1995). She created and starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom Lush Life in 1996 and acted in number of independent and smaller-scale movies in later career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kaley Cuoco</span> American actress (born 1985)

Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress. She is known for starring as Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019) and as the title character in the HBO Max comedic thriller The Flight Attendant (2020–2022). The latter earned her nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Shenkman</span> American actor

Benjamin Shenkman is an American actor. He is known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicole Ari Parker</span> American actress

Nicole Ari Parker Kodjoe is an American actress and model. She made her screen debut with a leading role in the critically acclaimed independent film The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and went on to appear in Boogie Nights (1997), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sarita Choudhury</span> British actress (born 1966)

Sarita Catherine Louise Choudhury is a British actress. She made her screen debut starring in the romantic drama film Mississippi Masala (1991). She later appeared in American and international film productions, including A Perfect Murder (1998), Restless (1998), She Hate Me (2004), The War Within (2005), Lady in the Water (2006), Midnight's Children (2012), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), A Hologram for the King (2016), and The Green Knight (2021).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sonya Walger</span> British-American actress (born 1974)

Sonya Walger is a British actress who also holds American citizenship. She had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms The Mind of the Married Man (2001–2002) and Coupling (2003) before landing her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC drama series Lost (2006–2010). Walger later starred on Tell Me You Love Me (2007), FlashForward (2009–2010), Common Law (2012), The Catch (2016–2017) and For All Mankind (2019–2022).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bailee Madison</span> American actress and singer (born 1999)

Bailee Madison Riley is an American actress and singer. Born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Madison began acting at just two weeks of age, appearing mostly in television commercials for the first few years. Her film debut, as May Belle Aarons in the fantasy drama Bridge to Terabithia (2007), brought her early praise. She gained wider acclaim for starring in the war drama film Brothers (2009), for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Madison went on to star in a number of horror and thriller films, beginning with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), gaining a reputation as a scream queen. She had commercial success with starring roles in the comedies Just Go with It (2011) and Parental Guidance (2012), though the critical reception of these films was mostly negative.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eric Lange</span> American actor

Eric Lange is an American actor. He is known for his extensive work on television, where he has appeared in a wide variety of both supporting and leading roles.

Paula Newsome is an American actress. She starred in a number of television series, most notable the ABC police drama Women's Murder Club (2007–08), and had recurring roles on NYPD Blue, NCIS, Barry, and Chicago Med. In 2021, Newsome began playing the leading role of Maxine "Max" Roby in the CBS crime drama series CSI: Vegas.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Alyn Lind</span> American actress

Emily Alyn Lind is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, when she was known for her recurring role as young Amanda Clarke on the ABC series Revenge, and for her role as Ariel on the CBS medical drama Code Black. Lind has also starred in the Netflix original films The Babysitter and The Babysitter: Killer Queen as Melanie, the theatrical film Doctor Sleep as Snakebite Andi, and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire as Melody. From 2021 to 2023, she starred as Audrey Hope in the HBO Max teen drama series Gossip Girl.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charlotte Hope</span> English actress

Charlotte Hope is an English actress. She first achieved recognition for her recurring role as Myranda in the third through fifth seasons of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2013–2016). Hope gained further prominence in the lead role of Catherine of Aragon on the Starz historical drama series The Spanish Princess (2019–2020). In 2020, she appeared as a series regular on the second season of the ITV thriller Bancroft and the Netflix biographical drama The English Game. Hope headlined the Showmax true crime series Catch Me a Killer as forensic psychologist Micki Pistorius in 2024.

<i>Billions</i> (TV series) American television drama series

Billions is an American drama television series created by Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin. The series premiered on January 17, 2016, on Showtime and its seventh and final season premiered on August 13, 2023.

<i>Sex and the City</i> season 6 Season of television series

The sixth and final season of the American television romantic comedy-drama Sex and the City aired in the United States on HBO. The show was created by Darren Star while Star, Michael Patrick King, John P. Melfi, series lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Chupack, and Jenny Bicks served as executive producers. The series was produced by Darren Star Productions, HBO Original Programming, and Warner Bros. Television. Sarah Jessica Parker portrays the lead character Carrie Bradshaw, while Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon played her best friends Samantha Jones, Charlotte York, and Miranda Hobbes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eliza Scanlen</span> Australian actress (born 1999)

Eliza Jane Scanlen is an Australian actress. She rose to prominence portraying Tabitha Ford in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (2016), before receiving critical acclaim by playing a troubled teenager in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018). In 2022, she starred in the Showtime series The First Lady as young Eleanor Roosevelt.

<i>Emergence</i> (TV series) 2019 American mystery/thriller drama television series

Emergence is an American mystery-themed thriller television series created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas for ABC Studios. Originally intended to be produced as a potential series prospect for NBC after it had ordered a pilot, the hour-long program was picked up by ABC, which added it to its 2019–20 television schedule lineup, where it debuted on September 24, 2019, as a Tuesday night entry. In May 2020, the series was canceled after one season.

<i>And Just Like That...</i> American comedy drama television series

And Just Like That... is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Michael Patrick King for Max. It is a revival and a sequel of the HBO television series Sex and the City created by Darren Star, which is based on Candace Bushnell's newspaper column and 1996 book anthology of the same name.

Poppy Liu is a Chinese-American actress, activist and poet, known for her roles in the sitcoms Sunnyside, Hacks, and iCarly.

References

  1. ↑ "Meet Alexa Swinton, The Young Star Leading One Of Fall TV's Most Mysterious New Shows". Bustle. September 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ "What And Just Like That Gets Right About Parenting a Nonbinary Child, According to an Expert". Time. January 20, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Sex and the City-Alexa Swinton estará no elenco do revival da HBO Max". Omelete (in Spanish). July 26, 2021.
  4. ↑ "'And Just Like That' Star Alexa Swinton Talks Taking on the Responsibility of Playing Charlotte's Child Rock". KFMB-TV. January 19, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "New Drama "Emergence" Coming to ABC". ABC. May 14, 2019.
  6. ↑ "'Billions' Recap, Season 5, Episode 10: You Can't Make an Omelet …". NY Times. September 19, 2019.
  7. ↑ "'And Just Like That' actress who plays Charlotte's nonbinary child helped craft character's coming-out scene and loves that it's not 'forcibly sad'". December 31, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Who Is Playing Rose in 'Sex and the City' Reboot? Everything to Know About Alexa Swinton". cheatsheet.com. July 30, 2021.
  9. 1 2 3 4 Cordero, Rosy (July 27, 2021). "'And Just Like That..': Alexa Swinton Joins 'Sex and the City' Revival From HBO Max".
  10. ↑ Collins-Hughes, Laura (2018-09-26). "Review: 'Make Believe' Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-02-25.
  11. ↑ Otterson, Joe (May 11, 2019). "Allison Tolman Pilot 'Emergence' Moves from NBC to ABC With Series Order". Variety . Retrieved May 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ Ko, Tansy. "'Emerging' star – CHCH". www.chch.com.
  13. ↑ "Emergence Casts Billions Actress Alexa Swinton". February 27, 2019.
  14. ↑ "Cathy Ang, Niall Cunningham, Alexa Swinton And Cree Cicchino Join The Max Original AND JUST LIKE THAT… From Executive Producer Michael Patrick King | Pressroom". pressroom.warnermedia.com. Retrieved 2021-08-26.
  15. ↑ "And Just Like That Star Alexa Swinton Talks About Groundbreaking Role in SATC Franchise". E! Online. 2021-12-16. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
  16. ↑ https://jewishjournal.org/2023/06/30/and-just-like-that-star-alexa-swinton-is-having-her-bat-mitzvah-in-israel/
  17. ↑ Lotter, Judah Charles (2020-07-29). "Alexa Swinton's debut single 'You, Me, and My Purple Docs' will mark 11-year-old's entry into music industry". Meaww.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.