Alexis Knapp
Alexis Merizalde Knapp (born July 31, 1989) is an American actress.[1][2] She portrayed Stacie Conrad in the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017) and Alexis in the party film Project X (2012). She also appeared on the first season of the TBS comedy Ground Floor.
Alexis Knapp
Early life[edit]
Knapp was born in Avonmore, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Marjorie and Bradford Elwood Knapp.[1] She grew up in North Carolina before moving to Los Angeles when she was 18.[3][4]
Career[edit]
In 2008, Knapp hosted a popular internet video series titled 'Project Lore', a show about the video game World of Warcraft, and also worked as a model before breaking into acting. She appeared in background roles in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief as Aphrodite Girl #9 and in Couples Retreat as a Dance Academy Girl. In 2012, Knapp appeared in her first major roles, playing Alexis in Project X, and as Stacie Conrad in the hit film Pitch Perfect, a sex-crazed Barden Bella. She reprised her role in the latter's 2015 sequel, with a brief cameo in the 2017 sequel.
Knapp appeared in the pilot of ABC's short-lived series Super Fun Night, written by and starring her Pitch Perfect co-star Rebel Wilson.[5][6] She starred in the Tom Vaughan directed film So Undercover, as Taylor Jaffe. Knapp had a starring role in the first season of the TBS comedy, Ground Floor, portraying Tori, a party girl, who catches up on her sleep at work the next morning,[7] but her character was dropped before the second season. She was cast in the Lifetime pilot Cinnamon Girl,[8] which did not get picked up as a series. Knapp also starred in the independent short film Wracked, as Melissa.[9] In 2017, she starred as Samantha in the Lifetime Christmas television film My Christmas Prince.[10]