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Aleksa Palladino
Palladino at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	(1980-09-21) September 21, 1980 (age 44) New York City, U.S.
Other names	Alessio Palladino Aleksa Alessio
Occupations	Actress singer
Years active	1996–present
Spouse	Devon Church ​ ​(m. 2004; div. 2015)​

Aleksa Palladino (born September 21, 1980) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her lead roles in Manny & Lo, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Find Me Guilty, Angela Darmody in the HBO crime series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2011), Mara in Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), The Midnight Swim (2014), Mary Sheeran in The Irishman (2019), and No Man of God (2021). She also played a main role in the second season of the AMC period drama Halt and Catch Fire. From 2007 to 2018, she was one half of the dreampop duo Exitmusic with former husband Devon Church, releasing the albums The Decline of the West (2007), Passage (2012), and The Recognitions (2018).

Early life

Palladino was born in New York City, where she grew up and worked as an actress. She is the only child of filmmaker, soprano singer, photographer, graphic artist, and producer Sabrina A. Palladino, and the granddaughter of Sicilian painter and sculptor Angela Fodale Palladino and the Italian-American illustrator and graphic designer Anthony Americo "Tony" Palladino, who designed the lettering for Robert Bloch's 1959 novel Psycho. An episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, is dedicated to Tony. Palladino's aunt, Kate Palladino-Kirk, is a designer, her great-great-uncle Rocco Fodale was a painter from Trapani, and her great-uncle Tonino Fodale worked as a retoucher for the biggest fashion photographers, such as Richard Avedon and Peter Lindbergh. Palladino's ancestral origins are in Naples and Sicily.

Career

Acting

Her debut role was as "Lo" in Manny & Lo opposite Scarlett Johansson and Mary Kay Place, 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 film Number 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 film Lonesome, and Storytelling with Selma Blair. She then had guest appearances in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (where she played two different characters), 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 Wrong Turn 2: Dead End.

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.

Music

Palladino was the lead singer and songwriter of the band Exitmusic. After self-releasing their debut album in 2007, the band released an EP and a follow-up album on indie label Secretly Canadian in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Palladino released a final Exitmusic album on Felte Records in 2018.

Personal life

Palladino formed the band Exitmusic with her husband Devon Church, whom she had met on a cross-Canada train trip in 2001. Palladino and Church divorced in 2015.

Discography

with Duo Exitmusic

• The Decline of the West (self-released, 2007)
• From Silence (EP) (Secretly Canadian, 2011)
• Passage (Secretly Canadian, 2012)
• The Recognitions (Felte, 2018)

Filmography

Film

Television

References

1. "Aleksa Palladino". Allmovie. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
2. ^ Chang, Kee (October 12, 2013). "The Archives: Aleksa Palladino". anthemmagazine.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
3. "Sabrina Palladino". The Artists Company. November 17, 2016. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
4. "This Course: Aleksa Palladino - Anthem Magazine". anthemmagazine.com. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
5. Heller, Steven (May 21, 2014). "Tony Palladino, Designer of 'Psycho' Lettering, Dies at 84 (Published 2014)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
6. "Who Is Tony Palladino? 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Dedicated An Episode To The Legendary Creative". Bustle. December 2017. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
7. "Home - Tonino Fodale". toninofodalestudio.com. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
8. "The 15 Most Groundbreaking Gay Roles on Television". rollingstone.com. January 26, 2011. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
9. Libby Hill (October 8, 2015). "AMC renews low-rated, critically acclaimed 'Halt and Catch Fire' for third season". www.latimes.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
10. Elizabeth Wagmeister (February 19, 2015). "AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire' Adds Two Cast Members for Season 2". variety.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
11. Shavonne Bell (2015). "Halt and Catch Fire Q&A – Aleksa Palladino (Sara Wheeler)". amc.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
12. Frank Pallotta (August 27, 2019). "'The Irishman' will skip a wide theatrical release and debut on Netflix November 27". cnn.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
13. "Exitmusic Contemplates a Final Bow With New Album and Single, "The Distance" (premiere + interview)". PopMatters. April 10, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
14. ^ Prillaman, Ashley (April 26, 2018). "INTERVIEW: Exitmusic on Their Final Bow". audiofemme.com. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
15. "Exitmusic - The Decline of the West". discogs.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
16. "From Silence". secretlycanadian.com. October 4, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
17. "Passage". secretlycanadian.com. June 22, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
18. Hannah Burke (2018). "Interview: The emotional labyrinth of Exitmusic". altcitizen.com. Retrieved November 21, 2019.

External links

• Aleksa Palladino at IMDb
• Band MySpace

• Living people
• 20th-century American actresses
• 20th-century American singer-songwriters
• 21st-century American actresses
• 21st-century American singer-songwriters
• Actresses from New York City
• American people of Italian descent
• American child actresses
• American women singer-songwriters
• American film actresses
• American television actresses
• Singers from New York City
• Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
• 20th-century American women singers
• 21st-century American women singers
• Secretly Canadian artists
• 1980 births