Daphne Alexander is a Cypriot actress best known for playing Nadia Talianos in the BBC Drama series Casualty and Modesty Blaise in three BBC radio adaptations.
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Early life
Alexander was born and brought up in Cyprus, living later in both Paris, France and London, England. She studied law at Somerville College, Oxford before training to be an actress at LAMDA.
Career
Soon after graduating from LAMDA, Alexander was cast in the BBC's long running medical drama Casualty, playing nurse Nadia from February to December 2007. She went on to roles in the HBO/BBC co-production House of Saddam, and the movies The Fourth Kind and The Ghost Writer, working with Roman Polanski on the latter. In 2011 she starred in the short film The Palace, which won multiple awards and received wide critical acclaim.
On stage, Alexander has worked in both London and New York. Notable productions include Hidden in the Sand (2013), and City Stories (2015–2016), both by James Phillips, and Camelot: The Shining City (2015) by Alan Lane of the Slung Low Theatre Company.
She appeared in the films Minore, from director Konstantinos Koutsoliotas, and Siege on Liperti Street, directed by Stavros Pamballis, which were both screened at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, in addition to starring in the films The Hunted and One Night in Bath. She also made an appearance as Amy in the 2023 film Sergeant, and starred as British-Greek journalist called Thalia Symon in Beckett, in addition to appearing in Smyrna, My Beloved. Her other television credits include playing Ioulia in Revenge Games, a Greek remake of the British television drama series Doctor Foster, playing Sofia Romano in Kabul., and appearing as Bromie in the second season of The Sandman on Netflix.
She has also done voice work, most notably playing Modesty Blaise in a series of adaptations for BBC Radio 4, and voicing various characters in video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
