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Alexandra Breckenridge is an American television and film actress best known for her roles as Monique Valentine in She’s the Man, Jessie Anderson in The Walking Dead, and Sophie in NBC’s This Is Us, which earned her the 2017 and 2018 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. More recently, she has starred as Melinda “Mel” Monroe in the Netflix series Virgin River.

Alexandra Breckenridge Biography: Age, Early Life, Education, Family

Breckenridge was born on May 15, 1982 (Alexandra Breckenridge age: 43) in Bridgeport, Connecticut, but lived in Darien, Connecticut until she was 10, after which her and her mother moved to California, eventually settling in Mill Valley.

During her childhood in California, Breckenridge participated in several community productions and took several acting classes.

Alexandra Breckenridge Biography: Career

Breckenridge landed her first role in 2000 as Shelly Weaver in the television show Freaks & Geeks. From there, she went...

If they don’t start planning their wedding soon, Virgin River‘s Mel and Jack are going to be engaged for even longer than Charmaine was pregnant. And we’re not even sure numbers go that high.

The Netflix drama’s it couple has been engaged since the end of Season 4, yet we’ve heard nary a peep about their impending nuptials in the 12 episodes since. And while we recognize that they had a lot on their plates in Season 5 — from the town burning down to that tragic miscarriage to the discovery of Mel’s estranged biological father — we’re...

Could we be seeing a baby on the way in the second season of This Is Us?​

​This Is Us star Alexandra Breckenridge, who plays Kevin's ex-wife, Sophie, ​announced via Instagram on Wednesday that she and her husband, guitarist Casey Hooper, are expecting their second baby.

"We made another one!!," Breckenridge captioned the adorable baby bump selfie. "Baby Breckenridge Hooper coming this winter."

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It's unclear whether Breckenridge's real-life pregnancy will be written into the new season of NBC's breakout family drama. At the end of the first season, Kevin and Sophie ​rekindled their romance, while their future was left ambiguous as Kevin was about to leave town to work on a new Ron Howard movie. The premiere, coincidentally, picks up "a month or two" after the finale. A rep for 20th TV, the studio that produces This Is Us, declined...