She also had a recurring role as Neal Caffrey's love interest, Kate Moreau, in the USA Network procedural drama series White Collar. Her first major role was as Annabeth Chase in the fantasy adventure film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010). Acting career ĭaddario made her television debut at the age of 16, when she played victimized teen Laurie Lewis in the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children. She has studied the Meisner acting technique for years. I did have every opportunity on the planet." She attended Marymount Manhattan College before dropping out to pursue acting full-time.
"It was just something I genuinely wanted to do – and I could've done anything, really. "I always loved storytelling," she stated in 2019. Daddario said she decided to be an actress at the age of 11.
She attended Brearley School and the Professional Children's School. ĭaddario was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side. House of Representatives for Connecticut from 1959 to 1971. Daddario, a Democratic member of the U.S. She has a younger brother, Matthew Daddario, and a younger sister, Catharine Daddario, who are both actors as well. She is of Italian, Irish, English, and Czechoslovak descent. Alexandra Anna Daddario was born in New York City, on March 16, 1986, the eldest child of Christina, a lawyer, and Richard Daddario, a prosecutor and former head of the New York City Police Department counterterrorism unit.