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Alexandra Billings

Highest Rated: 98% Disclosure (2020)

Lowest Rated: 27% The Estate (2020)

Birthday: Mar 28, 1962

Birthplace: Schaumburg, Illinois, USA

Alexandra Billings was a transgender TV actor who rose to prominence in 2014 as one of the supporting stars of the Golden Globe-winning comedy "Transparent" (Amazon 2014- ). A native of Southern California, Billings was surrounded by stage and screen performers throughout childhood. Her father was the musical director at a famed opera house in Los Angeles, and as a child Billings would follow her dad to work and help out backstage. It was while working at the opera house that she was first exposed to such high-profile stars as Yul Brynner and Carol Burnett, which only heightened her growing interest in the theater. By the early 1980s, Billings relocated to Chicago and started appearing in beauty pageants. She quickly found that she had a knack for performing in front of a live audience, and started winning beauty contests throughout the Midwest and Florida. Also around this time, Billings began appearing in plays in various theaters throughout Chicago, in addition to performing her autobiographical show to sold out audiences throughout the country. By the early 2000s Billings' stage career was thriving, and it wasn't long before Hollywood came calling. After a couple supporting roles on TV series, Billings made history by becoming the first transgender woman to play a transgender character on TV. That role came on the 1995 made-for-TV movie, "Romy and Michelle: In the Beginning." From there, Billings landed numerous guest spots on TV shows like "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 2005- ) and the short-lived "Eli Stone" (ABC, 2008-09), before landing the part of the trans woman Davina on the first season of Amazon's "Transparent." The show was an immediate success, and won the Golden Globe for Best TV Comedy. Amazon renewed "Transparent" for a second season in late 2014, with Billings already slated to reprise her role as Davina.

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Highest-Rated Movies

98% 87% Disclosure
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89% 87% Paddleton Watchlist 76% 75% On Broadway Watchlist
67% Queen Tut
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27% 66% The Estate Watchlist 71% Valley of Bones Watchlist
Faux
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37% Romy and Michele: In the Beginning
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20% Socket
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Boys Don't Wear Dresses
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Filmography

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Queen Tut 67% 2023 Malibu Actor The Estate 27% 66% 2020 Actor Disclosure 98% 87% 2020 Actor On Broadway 76% 75% 2019 Self Paddleton 89% 87% 2019 Judy Actor Boys Don't Wear Dresses 2019 Stepmom Actor Freelancers Anonymous 40% 2018 Janey Actor Valley of Bones 71% 2017 Kimberly Actor Faux 2010 Self Socket 20% 2007 Actor Romy and Michele: In the Beginning 37% 2004 Donna Actor
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