AGE 26
HOMETOWN Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
SHOW GIRL Alexandra was a college freshman when she booked a role on As the World Turns—she says that the soap, which she stuck with for three years, provided her with the best possible education for her chosen career: "I learned things, like how to find your light, that you can't learn in class. And I can memorize lines so quickly now."
SEEING DOUBLE That skill comes in handy on her current series, The Lying Game, in which she stars as the separated-at-birth twins Sutton and Emma. Playing two characters "is a challenge—I work fifteen hours a day, every day, when we're filming—but I love it."