We Can't Stop Staring At Alexandra Daddario's Transformation

while many celebrity careers feel like they take off overnight Alexandra darios did anything but from sstar to May Fair Witch she's working hard every day to achieve a claim born in New York City in 1986 Alexander Daario always had something of an artistic sensibility in fact she told IMDb that she decided to become an actor at the age of 12 after watching lay Miser Rob on Broadway in a 2019 episode of The Whiskey Ginger podcast she revealed that her decision was largely rooted in the fact that

she always enjoyed telling stories speaking with interview magazine didario recalled that despite the fact her parents had both pursued legal careers she received little push back regarding her interest in acting the actor attended the professional Children's School a New York City based nonprofit School intended for kids between 6th and 12th grade who hope to become actors or dancers the school encourages students to pursue their creative dreams and a comprehensive education simultaneously and

to Dario's attendance seems to have been a major first step in realizing her goal of professional acting in 2002 didario first appeared on the screen as teenager Lori Lewis on the ABC soap opera All My Children which follows the complex intertwining wives of multiple families this job proved a rocky start to her career however as she got fired after just one year on the show in an interview with Women's Health didario admitted that during her stint on All My Children she still had a lot to learn

about acting she explained I wasn't a very good actress I could memorize my lines but finding my camera finding my light even learning how to walk naturally it took a lot of practice luckily these days she thinks of her time on the show as a learning experience and even though she could sense something was off while she was on the All My Children set her passion never waned she explained I knew something was wrong but I knew I could fix it I knew that I loved what I did and that I could be bett

er luckily didario was able to keep practicing her acting chops and before long she snagged small TV roles in shows such as Law and Order and The Sopranos after landing a bunch of small TV and film roles didario finally scored a leading role in the film Percy Jackson and the Olympians the Lightning Thief in the 2010 adaptation of Rick Ryan's young adult novel she starred alongside big hwood names like Logan lurman Pierce broen sha bean and Steve kougan in a recent interview with the rap didario

described her time shooting the film as a very positive experience she recalled I loved it when I stepped into Percy Jackson and got that job I had no idea what it was I was like a bit part actor in New York City you know I was a kid I was working at a bar she elaborated that her understanding of Hollywood was minimal at the time and that working on the film was was an incredible way to spend some of her early 20s it was pretty much impossible to go anywhere in the year 2012 without hearing the

Imagine Dragon song Radioactive for Alexandra Daario however that was especially true in the tracks music video she plays a girl who visits a mysterious fighting Ring the video was wildly popular a decade later it has garnered around 1.4 billion views on YouTube Radioactive isn't the only music video in which Dario has appeared she was also in the video for Maroon 5's weight in 2018 where she plays Adam lavine's fictional girlfriend as the couple goes through a series of surreal absurdest acts w

eight probably isn't the best known Maroon 5 song but it has nevertheless received nearly 200 million views on YouTube Imagine Dragons and Maroon 5 are certified Mega stars but didario also starred in the video for a song called whenever you're around by the Lesser known band bootstraps back in 2019 Sam joer directed the clip and also appears alongside his one-time Parenthood TV wife Erica Christensen oddly enough didario had a guest star arc on Parenthood although her character doesn't interact

much with joerger or christensens in 2013 didario became a Bonafide movie star and director John lesen Hop's remake of the iconic film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the modern update didario plays Heather Miller who travels to Texas with a small group of friends to collect an inheritance left behind by her recently deceased grandmother the film saw a wide release but was met with a mostly lackluster response from audiences who found the characters unlikable and the script corny critics liked t

he film even less and accused it of being filled with horror cliches as well as less than stunning visual effects still Dario doesn't regret her time attempting to fend off leather face in an interview with Collider the actor said it's a Texas Chainsaw movie It's supposed to be fun I'm very grateful to have been in it I had a really unique experience shooting the film after earning recognition with her role in Texas Chainsaw didario went on to perform in prestigious exciting TV shows like HBO's

True Detective didario has claimed that her role in the show changed the trajectory of her career in an interview with collider she noted that she knew that getting nuded for the show had been a big risk and recalled that she quote didn't know what to expect but it wound up having a serious impact the day after her now iconic nude scene aired didario got an exhilarating call from her manager she reflected she was like the phone's been ringing off the hook all morning the phone won't stop ringing

and all of a sudden everyone in town wanted to meet with me and then I booked San Andreas the year after appearing in San Andreas didario kept her career's momentum going by snagging a role in season five of The Beloved American Horror Story in 2017 didario got to be part of another fresh take on a well-known franchise fortunately this one panned out a little better than Texas Chainsaw as her turn as summer Quinn in the movie adaptation of Baywatch became one of her most lotted roles the film f

ollows Dwayne Johnson's character a lifeguard named Mitch who is forced to confront a dangerous drug lord in an effort to protect his Beach the cast also included a long list of stars including Zack Efron Priyanka Chopra Jonas John bass Kelly roorbach and original Baywatch icons Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff the film saw very mixed reviews Baywatch has a low 177% critic score with many complaining that the film lacks the necessary humor and light-heartedness of a summer comedy others dubb

ed it CGI as clunky and called the pacing too slow much like the original Baywatch the movie is not for everybody however folks with a spefic specific fondness for the sight of famous people in swim Gear Running in slow motion seem to appreciate it in 2020 covid-19 took the World by storm and forced film Productions to shut down indefinitely one of the first films to go into production after covid was declared a pandemic was Songbird directed by Adam Mason and co-produced by Michael Bay it went

into production in July 2020 and was the first to shoot in La after the start of lockdown this is oddly fitting as the film was actually inspired by the virus Songbird takes place in the year 2024 during which time the government has turned into a fascist state that locks people infected with covid into quarantine camps didario plays a singer named May and acts alongside KJ Opa Sophia Carson Craig Robinson and Bradley Whitford despite Songbird being a major milestone for covid era Hollywood it w

as met with a largely negative response with critics calling it derivative unrealistic and exploitative in 2021 didario got another huge break when she appeared in season 1 of HBO's The White Lotus where she plays a journalist named Rachel staying at a Hawaiian resort for her honeymoon the show was met with instant Acclaim with critics calling it a shrewd and addicting social commentary with a killer cast in an interview with TV Insider didario said that she'd wanted to be in the White Lotus fro

m the moment she first heard about it she explained exped you could have given me any role you could have told me I was going to play the beach monster and I would have played it the actor also noted that the White Lotus helped resuscitate her career which she felt had stalled in the Years leading up to it in an interview with Cinema Blend she admitted in the couple years prior to the pandemic I knew the work I needed to be doing but it just wasn't happening I was like where am I going since the

White Lotus put Dario back on the map the actor's plate has been full of Juicy acting roles one of the first TV roles she took on after her sance on the HBO Anthology series was Mayfair witches an adaptation of Anne Rice's lives of the Mayfair witches Trilogy the series follows diario's Rowan a neurosurgeon who learns that she is the heir to a bloodline of witches throughout the series Rowan begins to learn about her new powers and deals with an evil force that has interfered with her family fo

r years the AMC fantasy Thriller first season aired in early 2023 and has since been renewed for a second in 2022 didario returned to film yet again starring and wildf flower a drama following a young woman going through life with two neurode Divergent parents while it received fairly moderate responses from critics the general public responded more favorably it has a 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes didario also appeared in a 2024 adaption of the young adult novel I wish you all the best t

he story follows a non-binary teenager named Ben who is kicked out of their house after revealing their true identity to their parents not knowing where to turn they move in with their sister Hannah played by [Music] didario