Alexa Davalos Bio - Biography

Name Alexa Davalos
Height 5' 8
Naionality Fracnce
Date of Birth 28 May 1982,
Place of Birth Paris, France
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Last September, Davalos was seen opposite Antonio Banderas in the HBO original film "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself." Directed by Bruce Beresford, the film is based on the story of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, who made a deal with legendary Hollywood director D.W. Griffith and Harry Aitken to help the filmmakers stage the first Hollywood action movie by essentially putting the cameras right in the middle of battle. Davalos played Teddy Sampson, a young actress starring in the film whose acting chops allowed her to portray someone else after cameras stopped rolling. Jim Broadbent and Eion Bailey also starred. "And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself" was nominated for a Critic’s Choice Award.

In 2002, Davalos starred in "The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald," Charles Lyons’ directorial debut. This short film follows James Powell, a college senior, who falls for Bess Gunther, played by Davalos, a sophomore. However, the attractive Bess is deeply in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, or “Scotty,” as she likes to call him. The obsession leads Bess down a road James prefers not to follow. Years later, he wonders whether she’s the one that got away. Charlie Hofheimer also stars. The film was an official selection to the 2002 Toronto Film Festival.

That same year, Davalos starred in Disturbing the Peace, the directorial debut of noted writer Mark Bomback for the 2002 Sundance Institute’s Director’s Lab. The project is writer/director Bomback’s adaptation of a Richard Yates novel. The story follows a suburbanite who thinks his life should be so extraordinary he makes rash decisions in the hopes of attaining it. Davalos stars as a young woman who has an affair with him to test the boundaries of her power over men.

She is the daughter of actress Elyssa Davalos, Alexa Davalos, a former France model, has appeared in such films as The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003, TV), and The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). Her notable TV guest appearances including Angel and Undeclared.

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