Alexa Demie

Alexa Demie is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Maddy Perez on the HBO teen drama television series Euphoria. Demie made her feature film debut with a minor role in the comedy-drama Brigsby Bear (2017), and went on to star in the coming-of-age film Mid90s (2018) and the drama film Waves (2019).

Demie was born in Los Angeles, California.[A] She grew up in the neighborhood of Atwater Village, where she was raised by her mother Rose Mendez, a make-up artist whose family immigrated to Los Angeles from Mexico when she was an infant and who got pregnant with Demie at an “extremely young” age, as well as by her grandmother and aunts.[4][5][6][7] Demie has said that she “didn’t grow up with the best male figures in [her] life” or “much respect for men”.[8] She lived in an apartment across the street from a meth lab and next door to several meth addicts, with the Black Eyed Peas recording studio being around the corner from her.[9] According to her, there was frequent fighting and yelling in her home growing up, and she ran away from home as a teenager in order to escape her toxic family environment.[10] However, she has described her family as “very supportive” and “there for each other”.[4][11] From elementary to high school, Demie was bullied by her classmates, describing herself during that time as “quite a loner”. She got involved with performing arts in high school during her senior year.