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| Alexandra Tydings |
Date of Birth (location):
?, ???, 1972?, Washington, D.C., USA.
Height:
5' ?" (1?? cm)
Mini biography:
(Courtesy of The Aphroditie Goddess of Love. Page and The Alexandra Tydings Page
On a show that includes a pantheon of flashy gods, straping heroes, and mythical beasts, it is the quirky goddess of love who has emerged as the standout guest on Hercules. Alexandra Tydings the 24 years old Ivy League graduate who plays Aphrodite, was initially unsure of whether she could measure up to such a heavenly role.
"In my first episode there was a beauty contest between me and my two sisters, Athena and Artemis," she says. "I got off this 13-hour flight from hell and I got into wardrobe and I saw these pictures of the girls who were playing my sisters, these models from New Zealand, and I was like, 'Oh, man, they totally miscast this thing!'" Helped along by Kevin Sorbo, who directed the first episode, she has since become comfortable with the role. "Aphrodite's full of spitfire, and I love that," says Tydings, a Washington, D.C., native who studied Irish folk dancing as a child and later entered the film program at Brown University.
"I studied a lot of psychoanalytic feminist film theory and stuff that doesn't come in handy all that often in the real world," she says. "But it's how I got back into acting." Tydings will appear in an upcoming episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, and though she's looking for a regular series job, for now she's happy with her goddess gig. "To play somebody who can literary turn a girl into a hag-that's pretty cool."
-Rich Sands Quote from "TV Guide"
Trivia:
Education - B.A., Brown University, La Sorbonne
Acting training - Kate McGregor Stewart; Tisch School of the Arts, NYU; Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
Dance education - American Ballet Theatre, Washington School of Ballet, The Irish School of Dance (Represented U.S. at World Championships in England & Ireland)