Gillian Alexy

Gillian Alexy (born March 13, 1983) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her television roles as Tayler Geddes on McLeod's Daughters, Annelise in The Americans, Gitta Novak on Damages, and G'Winveer Farrell on Outsiders.

Early life

Alexy graduated from the John Curtin College of the Arts in 2000, after doing specialist dance and theatre courses. Afterwards, she went to the Actors Centre in London, Le Centre des Arts Vivants and L'École de Danse Peter Goss in Paris, and spent six months toward a theatre degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Career

Alexy began her acting career at the age of ten, making her debut in 1994 in the television series Ship to Shore. In 1997 she appeared in her first leading television role, the children's series The Gift, for which she played the part for the first and only season. Her second leading role was in the series Parallax, another television series which was cancelled after just one season. She gained notability for her role as Tayler Geddes on Logie Award-winning television series McLeod's Daughters; she first appeared at the end of season 6, in which her character came to Drovers Run to get revenge on Regan McLeod, whom she held responsible for the death of her father.

Alexy's other television credits include Fast Tracks, All Saints, The Strip, Packed to the Rafters. In 2011, she began appearing on American television, in the series' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Blue Bloods. She starred in the Australian film West in 2007, playing a supporting role opposite Khan Chittenden and Nathan Phillips.

Alexy took part in a backdoor pilot for the proposed TV series NCIS:Red in early 2013, the cast of which appeared in the spin-off debut double-episodes of NCIS: Los Angeles, "Red, Part 1" and "Red, Part 2", in March that year. The series was ultimately not picked up by the network.

In 2023, Alexy had the starring role in the Australian feature film Avarice.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

External links

• atIMDb
• (archived 2008)
• atRotten Tomatoes