Alexandra Chando
Encyclopedia
Alexandra Chando is an American
actress
. She is best known for playing the role of Maddie Coleman
on the daytime soap opera
As the World Turns
, which she began in 2005, and currently stars in 2011 in the ABC Family
original series The Lying Game
along with a few other popular stars such as Blair Redford
, Allie Gonino
, Helen Slater
, and Alice Greczyn
.
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
, she currently stays in New York City
. Chando was attending Manhattan College
in the Riverdale
section of The Bronx
at the time she was hired by As the World Turns producers. During the shooting of "Rockville, CA" she moved to California. She recently moved back to New York again.
, Chando was also featured on an episode of MTV
's True Life
: I'm Getting My Big Break. She was let go two years later and her last air date was on October 26, 2007.
In 2008, Chando was cast as Debbie in the web-series Rockville, CA, created by Josh Schwartz
(The O.C.
, Gossip Girl
, Chuck
). It ran on TheWB.com in spring of 2009.
On September 23, 2009, Chando returned to As the World Turns
as Maddie. On May 14, 2010, she made a guest appearance on the popular CBS
drama Medium
as a volunteer for an animal rights activist group.
The actress also screen-tested with Robert Pattinson
for the leading role in Remember Me
that eventually went to Emilie de Ravin
.
Alexandra auditioned for the role of Elena Gilbert in the hit TV Show The Vampire Diaries
, which was given to Nina Dobrev
.
In October 2010, Chando was cast in the new ABC Family
series The Lying Game
, playing identical twins Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer. The series is based on the book by Sara Shepard
, who also wrote Pretty Little Liars
.
Chando plays Danielle in Talent, a web series produced by Alloy Entertainment
and based on novels by Zoey Dean
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. She is best known for playing the role of Maddie Coleman
Maddie Coleman
Madeline "Maddie" Coleman is a fictional character on the American soap opera As the World Turns. She was originally portrayed by Alexandra Chando who portrayed the role from July 27, 2005 to October 26, 2007 and by Kelli Barrett from December 22, 2008 to January 5, 2009...
on the daytime soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
, which she began in 2005, and currently stars in 2011 in the ABC Family
ABC Family
ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...
original series The Lying Game
The Lying Game
The Lying Game is an American drama television series produced by Alloy Entertainment and Warner Horizon Television for ABC Family. The show is based on a series of novels of the same name by Sara Shepard. The network green-lighted the series in February 2011 with a 10 episode order, with the...
along with a few other popular stars such as Blair Redford
Blair Redford
David Blair Redford is an American actor.- Personal life :Redford grew up in the suburb of Canton, Georgia and attended Sequoyah High School. He is of Irish, French, German, and Native American descent...
, Allie Gonino
Allie Gonino
Alyssa Jean "Allie" Gonino is an American actress and singer. She is best known for regular role as Laurel Mercer on The Lying Game and her recurring role as Michelle on 10 Things I Hate About You, both being ABC Family series. Gonino was also member of the American girl group "The Stunners".-Life...
, Helen Slater
Helen Slater
Helen Rachel Slater is an American actress and singer-songwriter.She appeared in the title role in the 1984 film Supergirl. In the following years she starred in several very successful comedy-drama films such as Ruthless People, The Secret of My Success, and City Slickers...
, and Alice Greczyn
Alice Greczyn
-Personal life:Greczyn was born in Walnut Creek, California and lives in Hollywood, California. She was home-schooled and started taking classes at Front Range Community College when she was 15. Informed that she had to be 18 to study nursing, she decided to try modeling and relocated to California...
.
Personal life
A graduate of Liberty High SchoolLiberty High School (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
For schools with similar names, see Liberty High School.Liberty High School is a public high school located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the United States....
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem is a city in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 74,982, making it the seventh largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie,...
, she currently stays in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. Chando was attending Manhattan College
Manhattan College
Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City, United States. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers...
in the Riverdale
Riverdale, Bronx
Riverdale is an affluent residential neighborhood in the northwest portion of the Bronx in New York City. Riverdale contains the northernmost point in New York City.-History:...
section of The Bronx
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
at the time she was hired by As the World Turns producers. During the shooting of "Rockville, CA" she moved to California. She recently moved back to New York again.
Career
A few months after joining As the World TurnsAs the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
, Chando was also featured on an episode of MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's True Life
True Life
True Life is a documentary series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode, "Fatal Dose." The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.-Topics covered:True...
: I'm Getting My Big Break. She was let go two years later and her last air date was on October 26, 2007.
In 2008, Chando was cast as Debbie in the web-series Rockville, CA, created by Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz
-Film school at USC:In 1995, Schwartz realized his boyhood dream of attending film school to study screen and television writing at the University of Southern California...
(The O.C.
The O.C.
The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons...
, Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl (TV series)
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007...
, Chuck
Chuck (TV series)
Chuck is an action-comedy/spy-drama television program from the United States created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named Chuck, played by Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the Central...
). It ran on TheWB.com in spring of 2009.
On September 23, 2009, Chando returned to As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
as Maddie. On May 14, 2010, she made a guest appearance on the popular CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
drama Medium
Medium (TV series)
Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
as a volunteer for an animal rights activist group.
The actress also screen-tested with Robert Pattinson
Robert Pattinson
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson is an English actor, model, musician, and producer. Born and raised in London, Pattinson started out his career by playing the role of Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
for the leading role in Remember Me
Remember Me (2010 film)
Remember Me is a 2010 American romantic coming of age drama film directed by Allen Coulter, and screenplay by Will Fetters. It stars Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, and Pierce Brosnan.-Plot:...
that eventually went to Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin born 27 December 1981)is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost....
.
Alexandra auditioned for the role of Elena Gilbert in the hit TV Show The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries is a young adult vampire horror series of novels written by L. J. Smith. The story centers around Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. The series was originally a trilogy published in 1991, but pressure from readers led Smith to write a fourth...
, which was given to Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev
Nina Dobrev is a Bulgarian-Canadian actress. She played the role of Mia Jones, the single teenage mother, on Degrassi: The Next Generation, from the show's sixth to ninth season...
.
In October 2010, Chando was cast in the new ABC Family
ABC Family
ABC Family, stylized as abc family, is an American television network, owned by ABC Family Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company...
series The Lying Game
The Lying Game
The Lying Game is an American drama television series produced by Alloy Entertainment and Warner Horizon Television for ABC Family. The show is based on a series of novels of the same name by Sara Shepard. The network green-lighted the series in February 2011 with a 10 episode order, with the...
, playing identical twins Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer. The series is based on the book by Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard is an American author known for the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series of young-adult novels.-Biography:Shepard graduated from Downingtown West High School in Downingtown, Pennsylvania in 1995, and got her undergraduate degree from New York University. She later received an MFA...
, who also wrote Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars
Pretty Little Liars is a series of more than 10 young adult novels by Sara Shepard, from 1981–present, which have been made into a television show . The series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader,...
.
Chando plays Danielle in Talent, a web series produced by Alloy Entertainment
Alloy Entertainment
Alloy Entertainment is a book-packaging division of the Alloy Media + Marketing company—an American provider of media programs. Alloy is a leading producer of "chick lit"-style novels created for teenage and young adult audiences...
and based on novels by Zoey Dean
Zoey Dean
Zoey Dean is the pseudonym for the creators of The A-List series and How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls, which has been renamed and turned into a TV show known as Privileged on the CW in September 2008...
.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | House Blend House Blend House Blend was a pilot for an American Television Series written by Anne Flett-Giordano and Chuck Ranberg and directed by John Whitesell. It was made by Paramount Network Television. The pilot first aired on May 1, 2002.-Cast:... |
Jenna Harper | TV movie |
| 2005–2009 | As the World Turns As the World Turns As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light... |
Maddie Coleman Maddie Coleman Madeline "Maddie" Coleman is a fictional character on the American soap opera As the World Turns. She was originally portrayed by Alexandra Chando who portrayed the role from July 27, 2005 to October 26, 2007 and by Kelli Barrett from December 22, 2008 to January 5, 2009... |
308 episodes |
| 2006 | True Life True Life True Life is a documentary series running on MTV since 1998. Each episode follows a particular topic, such as heroin addiction as in the first episode, "Fatal Dose." The show is created by following a series of subjects by a camera crew through a certain part of their lives.-Topics covered:True... |
Herself | "I'm Getting My Big Break" (season 8: episode 11) |
| 2009 | Rockville CA | Deb | 20 episodes |
| 2009 | Sherri Sherri Sherri is a given name, and may refer to:* Sherri Baier, former Canadian pairs figure skater* Sherri Coale , current women's basketball coach for the University of Oklahoma Sooners... |
Cab Passenger | "Dating Dad" (season 1: episode 6) |
| 2010 | Medium Medium (TV series) Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office... |
Melissa Treynet | "Dead Meat" (season 6: episode 21) |
| 2010 | Glory Daze Glory Daze (TV series) Glory Daze is an American comedy-drama television series. The one-hour series revolves around a group of college freshmen who pledge a fraternity in 1986... |
Annabelle | "Hungry Like Teen Wolf" (season 1: episode 3) "What's Love Got to Nude with It" (season 1: episode 7) |
| 2011 | Talent | Danielle Anderson | 10 episodes |
| 2011 | The Bleeding House The Bleeding House The Bleeding House is a 2011 Horror film directed by Philip Gelatt starring Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen and Charlie Hewson.-Synopsis:... |
Gloria | |
| 2011–present | The Lying Game The Lying Game The Lying Game is an American drama television series produced by Alloy Entertainment and Warner Horizon Television for ABC Family. The show is based on a series of novels of the same name by Sara Shepard. The network green-lighted the series in February 2011 with a 10 episode order, with the... |
Emma Becker / Sutton Mercer | Main role |