Alexis Dziena

Alexis Dziena studied theatre in New York at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she wrote and acted in plays and was cast in her first television role at the age of 17. From E's crazy, jealous girlfriend on HBO's *Entourage* (2004) to Lolita parading around in the buff for Bill Murray in Jim Jarmusch's *Broken Flowers* (2005), Dziena has played a wide range of colorful characters in both film and television. In the upcoming feature *Without Ward* (2022), directed by Cory Cataldo, she plays a deaf girl who falls in love with the man who lives across the street. Confined to their homes and never physically touching, they communicate through their windows, as love prevails. Dziena portrays a promiscuous pizza girl looking for love in *Wrong* (2012), directed by Quentin Dupieux for Drafthouse Films. She has played notable roles in such films as *When in Rome* (2010), *Fool's Gold* (2008), *Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist* (2008), *Sex and Breakfast* (2005), *Havoc* (2005), and *Strangers with Candy* (2005). Dziena starred opposite Marcia Gay Harden in the coming-of-age movie for cable entitled *She's Too Young* (2004). She was a regular on the ABC series *Invasion* (2005) and is still asked if she can do an American accent because of the memorable Russian girl she played on *Law & Order* (1990) early in her career.