Aleksa Palladino is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for her lead roles in Manny & Lo, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Find Me Guilty, Boardwalk Empire, , and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. She also played a small role in the second season of the AMCperiod dramaHalt and Catch Fire.
Life and acting career
Palladino was born in New York City, where she grew up and worked as an actress. Her debut role was as "Lo" in Manny & Lo opposite Scarlett Johansson, in which she played a 16-year-old character despite being 14 at the time. The next year, she was given her first lead role in the short filmNumber One Fan with Glenn Fitzgerald, and soon appeared in Wrestling with Alligators with Joely Richardson, the well-received The Adventures of Sebastian Cole with Adrian Grenier, and Second Skin with Fitzgerald again. The year 2000 saw the release of Red Dirt, followed by the independent filmLonesome, and Storytelling with Selma Blair. She then had guest appearances in ', The Sopranos and Law & Order. In 2004, Palladino returned to acting with a guest appearance on Medium, followed by her lead role in Spectropia and a supporting one in Find Me Guilty with Vin Diesel. After she worked in Find Me Guilty, director Sidney Lumet offered Palladino the role of Chris Lasorda in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. She then appeared in The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on the novel by Oscar Wilde, and landed a supporting role in the acclaimed horror sequel '. The 2010s saw her busy mainly on television; her role as Prohibition-era gangster Jimmy Darmody's closeted wife Angela in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire stands out. She was also a series regular of season two in the critically acclaimed AMC series Halt and Catch Fire as Sara Wheeler. Her next important film role was Mary Sheeran in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, which was distributed by Netflix and received only a limited theatrical release.
For over ten years she was the lead singer and songwriter of the band Exitmusic, which she formed with then-husband Devon Church. After a self-released album in 2007, the band released an EP in 2011 and a full-length album in 2012 for the indie labelSecretly Canadian. A final album followed in 2018 for Felte Records.
