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Biography
Infobox person| name = Sasha Alexander| image =| imagesize =220px| caption = Sasha Alexander as Caitlin Todd| birth_date = Birth date and age|1973|5|17| birth_place = Los Angeles, California , U.S.| birth_name = Suzana S. Drobnjakovic| occupation = Actress| yearsactive = 1997–present| spouse = Luka Pecel (annulled) marriage| Edoardo Ponti |2007||2 children Sasha Alexander (born May 17, 1973)According to the State of California. California Birth Index, 1905–1995 . Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California . Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461 WebCite|url= http://www.webcitation.org/5msXu6Cib|date =2010-01-18 is an American actress. She is best known for several roles, including Gretchen Witter, the sister of Pacey Witter on '' Dawson's Creek ; NCIS Special Agent Caitlin Todd|Kate Todd in the first two seasons of NCIS (TV series)|NCIS ; as Lucy in Yes Man (film)|Yes Man (2008); and as Catherine in He's Just Not That Into You (film)|He's Just Not That Into You (2009).
She currently stars as Chief Medical Examiner Rizzoli & Isles#Cast|Maura Isles on the Turner Network Television series Rizzoli & Isles .
Early life
Alexander was born Suzana S. Drobnjakovic ( Serbian Cyrillic : ?????? ?. ???????????) in Los Angeles , California, to a Serbian mother and an Italian fatherCitation needed|August 2011|date=August 2011 . She began acting in school productions in the seventh grade. She also was an ice skater but had to stop due to a knee injury. She continued acting through high school and college, and then moved to New York to act in summer stock theatre|summer stock and William Shakespeare|Shakespeare festivals. She graduated from the University of Southern California 's USC School of Cinema-Television|School of Cinema-Television before going on to have a successful acting career in both TV and film.
Career
Alexander was a regular on two short-lived series: the medical drama Presidio Med and ABC's twenty-something drama Wasteland (TV series)|Wasteland . She achieved widespread media attention and critical praise when she appeared on the fourth season of '' Dawson's Creek as Gretchen Witter, dating the title character, and in an episode of the short-lived Fox Network|Fox comedy series Greg the Bunny , playing the part of a lesbian TV Guide reporter and shared an onscreen kiss with Sarah Silverman . Alexander has also appeared in the films Lucky 13 , and All Over the Guy as well as He's Just Not That Into You (film)|He's Just Not That Into You , the independent movie The Last Lullaby , and Yes Man (film)|Yes Man starring Jim Carrey.
Before being cast as Caitlin Todd on NCIS (TV series)|NCIS , she appeared on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation| CSI as District Attorney Robin Childs, in the episode, "Alter Boys". Her role on NCIS ended in May 2005 and she had a small role in 2006's Mission Impossible III .
She joined the cast of The Nine (TV series)| The Nine in the role of Nick's ex-wife. She also appeared in one episode of Friends (" The One with Joey's Interview "), playing a Soap Opera Digest reporter who interviewed Joey Tribbiani|Joey .
Her current television role is that of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles on the new TNT (TV network)|TNT series Rizzoli & Isles , which debuted on July 12, 2010.
Personal life
On August 11, 2007, Alexander married Film director|director Edoardo Ponti , son of actress Sophia Loren and the late film producer Carlo Ponti , in Geneva, Switzerland . Alexander and Ponti have two children, Lucia Sofia (born May 12, 2006) and Leonardo Fortunato (born December 20, 2010). http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20456440,00.html
Alexander attended the University of Southern California, where she was a member of the sorority Kappa Alpha Theta .
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