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Alycia Debnam-Carey
Debnam-Carey in at San Diego Comic Con International 2015
Born	Alycia Jasmin Debnam-Carey (1993-07-20) 20 July 1993 (age 31) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Other names	Alycia Debnam-Carey, Alycia Debnam Carey
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2003–present
Height	5 ft 7 in (1.65m)

Alycia Jasmin Debnam-Carey (born 20 July 1993) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her roles in the 2014 films Into the Storm and The Devil's Hand. Debnam-Carey is also known for her current portrayal of "Lexa" in The CW series The 100.

Debnam-Carey has also appeared in the TV series, Galyntine, Martha’s New Coat, McLeod's Daughters, Dream Life, and Next Stop Hollywood. On December 1, 2014, it was announced that Debnam-Carey had been cast as Alicia, one of the lead roles, in the AMC series Fear the Walking Dead, the official companion series to The Walking Dead.

Personal life

Debnam-Carey graduated from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in 2011 where she was a percussionist. In 2010, in partnership with the Berlin Philharmonic, she and around 40 other musicians worked together, composed a piece together in a two-week program. Debnam-Carey also studied for ten years in classical percussion. In her last year of school, Debnam-Carey took her HSC exams and managed to get top band (how the HSC results are divided, 1 being lowest, 6 being highest) in six of her courses. Debnam-Carey also received the Premier's award for receiving 90's in 6 subjects.

Career

2003-2012: Career beginnings

Alycia Debnam-Carey started acting at the age of 8. In 2003 she co-starred in Rachel Ward’s award winning short feature film, Martha’s New Coat. Later Debnam-Carey guest starred in Australian drama series “McLeod’s Daughters”. In 2008 Debnam-Carey appeared in television film Dream Life and short film Jigsaw Girl. Debnam-Carey also showed up in other short films At the Tattooist and The Branch. In 2010 she co-starred in the cancelled pilot Resistance and guest starred in another Australian drama series, Dance Academy.

2012-2013: LA and Next Stop Hollywood

Debnam-Carey began to make her mark in Hollywood at age of 18, when she traveled to the U.S for the first time. She starred as the youngest cast member in Next Stop Hollywood, a six-part documentary that followed six Australian actors as they competed for roles during the U.S. TV pilot season. Her mom, Leone Carey, is a television writer, and she accompanied Alycia on her journey.

Just after two weeks in Hollywood Alycia auditioned for the role of Carrie Bradshaw for the new CW series The Carrie Diaries and was asked to audition for an independent feature film, a thriller set in the Amish community. After two more weeks in Hollywood, Alycia has landed on the short list for The Carrie Diaries and has been offered a lead role in a feature film, The Devil's Hand, than known as The Occult, and next week leaves Hollywood to meet a film director in Canada. In the sixth and final week in Hollywood, Alycia started filming The Devil's Hand in North Carolina. In the end, Debnam-Carey lost the role of Carrie in The Carrie Diaries to actress AnnaSophia Robb. The documentary aired in 2013 on ABC1 in Australia.

While staying in LA, Debnam-Carey became a Heath Ledger Scholarship Finalist and was awarded in July 2012.

2014-present: Breakthrough, The 100 and Fear The Walking Dead

In 2014 Debnam-Carey co-started in American found footage disaster film, Into the Storm. Following The Devil's Hand Debnam-Carey also started in another cancelled pilot called Galyntine Debnam-Carey also made appearance in Made in Hollywood in the same year.

Debnam Carey guest starred in season two of CW's The 100, first appearing in episode six. Debnam-Carey stars as Commander Lexa, the powerful leader of the Woods Clan and the 12 clans that inhabit the earth. She mainly plays opposite Eliza Taylor's character Clarke Griffin, who she begins to have romantic feelings for and the two eventually share a kiss. During the second season she became one of the fan favorites and an won award for Best Guest Star in E! Online Best. Ever. TV. Awards. At San Diego Comic Con International 2015, it was confirmed by show's creator Jason Rothenberg that Debnam-Carey would be returning to the show's third season.

In December 2014 the first four lead roles of The Walking Dead's spin-off series Fear the Walking Dead were cast including Debnam-Carey as Alicia. The first photos of Debnam-Carey in set showed up after production began on the remaining five first-season episodes on May 11, 2015, in Vancouver. Production for the show in Canada concluded at the end of June 2015 and will finish in July 2015 in Los Angeles. Fear the Walking Dead debuted on August 23, 2015 and is already ordered for 2 seasons. At the Television Critics Association Press Tour it was announced, that AMC ordered 15-episode for season 2.

On August 27, Debnam-Carey made her first talk show appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.

Debnam-Carey also got a lead role of Laura in upcoming thriller Friend Request, originally named Unfriend. The Film was scheduled to be released in 2015, but premiere was moved to 7 January 2016.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music Videos

Awards and Nominations

References

1. http://www.heightcelebs.com/2014/10/alycia-debnam-carey/
2. http://alycia-debnamcarey.com/post/112984202571/regarding-alycias-birthday
3. "Berlin: CMG Picks Up LD's Horror Pic 'Where The Devil Hides'". Deadline. 7 February 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
4. Rovenstine, Dalene (4 March 2015). "The 100's Alycia Debnam-Carey tells all about Lexa's big kiss". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
5. Kroll, Justin. "AMC Pilot 'Galyntine' Gets Two New Cast Members". Variety. Retrieved December 4, 2014.
6. Stratton, David (1 August 2003). "Review: 'Martha's New Coat'". Variety. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
7. "Tattle: Nan's tough love inspires Miranda Kerr". Herald Sun. 5 June 2012. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
8. "Porchlight commences Dream Life". If Magazine. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
9. Miller, Gregory E. (3 August 2014). "Alycia Debnam-Carey blows in with 'Into The Storm'". New York Post. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
10. Andreeva, Nellie (December 1, 2014). "Frank Dillane & Alycia Debnam Carey Cast In 'The Walking Dead' Companion Seriess". Deadline.com. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
11. Burke, Kelly (13 November 2010). "Noteworthy young musicians team up with the world's best". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
12. http://www.aol.com/build/519042798/
13. "2011 HSC Distinguished Achievers". New South Wales. Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
14. "Annual School Report" (PDF). Newtown High School of the Performing Arts. Retrieved May 22, 2015.
15. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/nextstophollywood/characters/Alycia.htm
16. http://if.com.au/2012/05/11/article/Australians-in-Film-Heath-Ledger-scholarship-finalists-announced/QOFNZHMLGL.html
17. https://twitter.com/The100writers/status/619598726126944256
18. http://deadline.com/2014/12/kim-dickens-cast-the-walking-dead-spinoff-companion-series-amc-1201334014/
19. https://www.yahoo.com/tv/fear-the-walking-dead-trailer-amc-comic-con-weve-123751697155.html 'Fear the Walking Dead' Gets New Trailer, Premiere Date at Comic-Con
20. http://deadline.com/2015/03/walking-dead-companion-series-2-season-order-amc-1201388983/ ‘The Walking Dead’ Companion Series Gets 2-Season Pickup By AMC
21. Patten, Dominic (July 31, 2015). "'Fear The Walking Dead' Producer Teases Link To 'Walking Dead' As Season 2 Episode Order Set – TCA". Deadline.com.
22. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3352390/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf+ Release Info
23. http://mtv.tumblr.com/tagged/shipoftheyear about the ship of the year voting
24. http://ca.eonline.com/news/675572/best-ever-tv-awards-watch-outlander-vampire-diaries-arrow-and-more-winners-accept-their-trophies

External links

• Alycia Debnam-Carey at IMDb
• Alycia Debnam-Carey on Twitter

• Living people
• Australian film actresses
• Australian child actresses
• Actresses from Sydney
• 1993 births
• Australian people of English descent
• Australian television actresses
• 21st-century Australian actresses