ĭemie gained attention with her supporting role in the 2018 film Mid90s, written and directed by Jonah Hill, as Esmee, the protagonist's love interest. In July 2018, she directed the music video for JMSN's song "Talk is Cheap" with Natalie Falt. She appeared in the music video for JMSN's 2017 song "Slide" and made her debut feature film appearance in the 2017 comedy-drama film Brigsby Bear, in which she played Merideth. In 2016, she released her debut single, "Girl Like Me", and was featured on Pearl's single "Turnin' Tricks". She went on to guest star on the television series Ray Donovan and Love, also guest starring on the second season of the drama television series The OA as Ingrid, a bilingual gamer. Her professional acting career began with a role in the 2015 short film Miles, through which she found an agency to represent her. After appearing in a short film for a friend, she got the lead role in The Godmother, a scrapped biopic about Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco, in 2015. Careerĭemie made her first onscreen appearance as a video vixen in Azealia Banks' 2013 music video for the song " ATM Jam". Demie had plans to become a fashion designer but after attending orientation for an art school in New York, she decided against it. Also in high school, she started writing songs and designed a costume for one of Minaj's first music videos. The brand eventually became popular overseas, with Mainframe glasses being worn by G-Dragon, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj, and Amber Rose and appearing in Vogue Korea, though she soon stopped making them due to not being paid for her designs. While in high school, she spent her spare time bedazzling sunglasses that she purchased from Downtown Los Angeles, which led to her creating Mainframe, a line of sunglasses that she began selling at a store on Melrose Avenue where her friend worked. She got involved with performing arts in high school during her senior year. From elementary to high school, Demie was bullied by her classmates, describing herself during that time as "quite a loner". However, she has described her family as "very supportive" and "there for each other". According to her, there was frequent fighting and yelling in her home growing up, and she ran away from home as a teenager in order to escape her toxic family environment. She lived in an apartment across the street from a meth lab and next door to several meth addicts, with the Black Eyed Peas recording studio being around the corner from her. Demie has said that she "didn't grow up with the best male figures in life" or "much respect for men". She was raised by her mother, Rose Mendez, a make-up artist whose family immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico when she was an infant and who got pregnant with Demie at an "extremely young" age. She has also appeared in numerous music videos.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Demie grew up in the neighborhood of Atwater Village. Demie made her feature film debut with a minor role in the comedy-drama Brigsby Bear (2017) before starring in the coming-of-age film Mid90s (2018) and the drama film Waves (2019). She is best known for her role as Madeleine “Maddy” Perez on the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria. Alexa Demie is an American actress and singer.
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