My friends call me Alexandra.

I was born and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.  I knew from the time I was 13 years old that I wanted to be an actor and move to Hollywood to pursue my dreams.

When I was 15 years old I started looking in magazines for ways to learn about an acting career in LA. I sent in $20 to an ad in the back of a popular magazine for a list of places that featured opportunities for actors. I got the list but I had never heard of the places and I had no one to ask and no one to help me figure it out. Who do you trust? How do I spend my allowance? I was already feeling like I’d been scammed out of $20.

My parents made it clear that once I got to college an acting career was out. They were paying the bills. They wanted me to find my “other” career, so that if I still want to be an actor after I got my degree then I’d at least have a fallback job. Good point. I got my degree and with it a one way ticket to Long Beach, California via McDonnell Douglas Corporation (now Boeing).

Now I was on my own in Long Beach to pursue my dreams. I entered into an acting class in Newport Beach (what???) and tried out for musical theatre in Orange County (what???). Here I had gone all this way – close to Hollywood, close to pursuing my dreams, and I still didn’t know what class to take, where to live, where to work and who to study with. Headshots? I didn’t get those until years after I moved here!

I had no idea what I was doing!!!

Slowly I started to meet other actors. I made some friends. I asked, who did your headshots? How do you contact agents? How do you get auditions? Eventually I learned I needed to live in Los Angeles – not Orange County - and continue meeting more actors. Many year after I arrived I started to find great acting coaches, started to make connections and started to work in acting.

I said to myself, why the hell didn’t I have all the information and resources I needed when I was eighteen years old???If I knew then what I know now.

Sometime back I came up with the idea of wanting to help other actors with this same problem by figuring out a way to get the information to you as efficiently, cheaply and effectively as possible.  Along comes the internet and my hope of helping others is a viable and affordable option for me.

I know how busy your days can get.  Auditions, day job, working on sides, driving, acting class, rehearsals, keeping in shape, marketing your materials…believe me I know how fast the time goes by.  So my mission is to keep you up-to-date on all the information, resources and research you may not have time to do.  In a way that is accessible and easy to understand.  I don’t want you to lose out on anything that can help your career.

And that is what ALEX’S INFO is all about!

To learn more about me as an actor, feel free to visit my imdb profile or my web link at: www.alexandraraines.nowcasting.com