Alex is descended from Edmund Rice's great grandson, Silas, who took the name of Tookanowras, but he was also baptized as Catholic and known as Jacques Thanhohorens.
[4] Born on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve in Quebec, Canada, Rice spent the majority of her childhood with her family in Brooklyn, New York.
[1] Rice first traveled to California in 1996 to attend a modeling convention and landed her first entertainment job working behind the scenes at the Judge Judy show.
[6] She is perhaps best known for her recurring role as Janet Pete in the films Skinwalkers (2002), Coyote Waits (2003), and A Thief of Time (2004), based on the Tony Hillerman novels by the same names.
She has appeared in other films including Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West, On the Corner, A Thousand Roads, the IMAX release of Sacagawea, Johnny Tootall, and The New World.