Biografia

Lead singer and musician for the band EXITMUSIC. They released their first album in 2012.

Born and raised in New York City.

After working with Sidney Lumet in Prova a incastrarmi (2006), Aleksa was offered the role of Chris in what became Lumet's last film project, Onora il padre e la madre (2007).

Aleksa Palladino and Devon Church separated in 2013, their divorce was finalized in 2015.

In Manny & Lo (1996), her character Lo was 16 years old, but Aleksa was only 14 at the time.

It's all a process of layering, right as you hear it. The more you add to it, the more it tells you a story. Sometimes we have certain ideas about a song. Sometimes that will get in the way. The song will go where it wants to go.

[on Manny & Lo (1996)] Lisa Krueger really did that movie the way she wanted to do that movie. There were so many opportunities for her to basically sell it out and get stars attached and all these things, but she really had a vision for it and wanted to make it her film.

There's still not a lot of roles for women being represented in the media. The majority of the work I've done has been written or directed by men. So being a woman, it's definitely nice to create your own picture of what it is to be a woman, it's not what a man thinks it is.

When I was younger, the huge guiding force of what not to do was how embarrassing something might be for me. As an adult, and especially as a woman, you're more in tune with the things you want said or represented through your work. I'm always on the lookout for roles that are written for a man that I can play as a woman.

The things that happen along the way always change your options when you're an actor. I always aim to work on things that seem genuinely interesting to me. I was definitely limited in my choices before Boardwalk Empire: L'impero del crimine (2010) came along. That show changed the quality of my options. I had done a lot of independent films for years, but I was still stuck in this weird limbo where you feel like you're clearly part of the business, but you can't move up - it's a holding pattern.