Biography

ALEXIA FAST

BIOGRAPHY

Chronology:

AGE 7-9:

Alexia wrote, directed, and starred in her first short film

‘THE RED BRIDGE’

Logline: a young girl overcomes her fears to help a town rediscover happy!

The troll living under the red bridge has restricted anyone from going beyond its borders. A little girl decides she needs to have a party to be happy again and so she risks her life to get a magical potion only found over the red bridge to make her special cookies. She confronts the troll, kills its power, freeing the town to be happy again while munching on peanut butter chocolate chip.

Alexia wrote her first script in purple pen ink but in professional format. She got the attention of the local digital film making society to work-shop her script for changes, then rented out their camera gear to put her film together on her own.

She storyboarded her shots, directed the camera operator, and put together her make up and wardrobe. She obtained an editor who helped her complete her film.

The Red Bridge, has screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in 2002 in the youth division and in 2006, at the Reel to Reel Festival in Vancouver.

Alexia is working on her next short film to be shot later this year.

AGE 12:

Alexia decided to get into acting to assist her filmmaking skills.

She did one commercial before being cast as Cindy Bottoms, in the Zombie drama FIDO starring Carrie Anne Moss (Matrix) and Billy Connelly (Lemony Snicket) due to hit theatres October 2006 through Lions Gate Distributing.

She has guest starred in the primetime series Supernatural, as a child cannibal with soap star Jensen Ackles and was also a returning principal “Lindsay Hammond” on the USA Network sci-fi series 4400. Alexia completed a family Christmas movie with Dina Meyers (Friends, Johnny Mnemonic) and was recently the lead in a thriller called Past Tense where she is won Best Female Lead Actor in a Feature Film at the Leo Awards in 2007.

Age: 13

Alexia co-starred and danced her way in the feature film Kickin’ It Old Skool’ in a ‘Flash Dance’ sequence starring Jamie Kennedy, Maria Menounos, Vivica Fox and Debra Jo Rupp (That 70’s Show). Alexia then proved herself with stunts in the A&E disaster movie called Wildfires, next she tried her hand at a ‘back from the dead fantasy’ in a Sci-Fi Masters of Science Fiction movie then delivering a believable horror performance in the Master of Horror movie “I Scream, We all Scream for Ice Scream’.

Age: 14

Alexia has starred as the lead in a CBC series pilot called Left Coast directed by Michael McGowan (One Week with Joshua Jackson), moving forward in development for series production and finished a movie starring Sara Paxton (‘Darcy’s Wildlife’) about educating teens against drinking. She then tried her hand in a Wizard of the Oz mini-series for Hallmark starring Zooey Deschanel, Kathleen Robertson and Richard Dreyfus called Tin Man as the young Azakadelia before being cast as a supporting lead regular in the MTV/MGM series Kaya playing the dead sister of the lead played by Danielle Savre premiering in Oct. 2007.

Age: 15

Alexia had a wonderful experience playing the daughter of Ashley Judd and Goran Visnic in Helen directed by Sandra Nettlebeck heading to Sundance and Berlin Film Festival for 09. A teen comedy called Gym Teacher, had Alexia in braces and pigtails, with producer Lauren Levine (Bridge to Terabithia)

Age: 16

Everyone likes teen movies, and Alexia is no different, starring in Triple Dog with Brittany Robertson and Scout Taylor Compton to be released this year. Kari Skogland’s a hot director having released 50 Deadman Walking starring Ben Kingsley. Her new feature with Kari directing is called The Cult, starring Henry Czerny, and co-stars Alexia Fast as Rachel the object of affection to those seeking peace and solace.

Traveling to LA to shoot the annual “Young Hollywood” issue for Nylon Mag due out in MAY was a blast especially diving in the ocean on the beach, to get that perfect shot – which was kinda a sad for the Louboutin shoes Alexia was wearing! Toronto was fun shooting as a guest star in Flash Point – Perfect Storm airing May 1 about teens and guns. Alexia is now heading to the midwest with the producers of ‘The Red Violin’, to play a tough kid from a small dirt town trying to survive in tough times in the film Hungry Hills.

Back in Vancouver Alexia was nominated for a Leo Award for Best supporting actor in a Feature Lengh Drama for her role in Helen. Alexia is currently working in Montreal on Fakers, playing a closet klepto who tries to rebel against the harsh economic times by counterfitting, until the cops catch up with her.

Alexia is headed to the Toronto International Film Festival September 2009, with her film HUNGRY HILLS starring Kier Gilchrist and Gabrielle Rose, directed by Rob King.

Alexia is shopping her half hour television series she wrote.