[2] Alexander was born and brought up in Cyprus, living later in both Paris, France and London, England.
[3][4] Soon after graduating from LAMDA, Alexander was cast in the BBC's long running medical drama Casualty, playing nurse Nadia from February to December 2007.
[1] She went on to roles in the HBO/BBC co-production House of Saddam, and the movies The Fourth Kind and The Ghost Writer, working with Roman Polanski on the latter.
[5] In 2011 she starred in the short film The Palace, which won multiple awards and received wide critical acclaim.
She has also done voice work, most notably playing Modesty Blaise in a series of adaptations for BBC Radio 4[10] and various characters in video game Assassin's Creed Odyssey.