Jaimie Alexander
Jaimie Lauren Alexander (born Jaimie Lauren Tarbush; March 12, 1984)[1] is an American actress. She is known for portraying Jessi on the TV series Kyle XY and Lady Sif in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), as well as the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020) and the Disney+ series Loki (2021). From 2015 until 2020, she starred in the NBC series Blindspot.
Jaimie Alexander
Early life[edit]
Jaimie Alexander was born in Greenville, South Carolina, but moved to Grapevine, Texas, when she was four years old. She is the only girl in a family of five children.[2] Alexander first got into acting in grade school, where she took theater for fun. Alexander stated that she was kicked out of theater when she was in high school because she could not sing, so she instead went into sports.[3] When she was 17, she substituted for a friend at a meeting with a scouting agency and she met her manager, Randy James, who sent her some scripts. After her graduation from Colleyville Heritage High School,[4] a year and a half later, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career.[5]
Personal life[edit]
Alexander began dating actor Peter Facinelli in 2012 after they met on the set of Loosies.[20][21] They became engaged in March 2015.[22] In February 2016, Alexander and Facinelli announced they had ended their engagement.[23]
Also in 2012, Alexander suffered severe injuries when she slipped off a metal staircase during a rainy morning on the Thor: The Dark World set. The fall caused her to slip a disc in her thoracic spine and chip 11 of her vertebrae, as well as dislocate her left shoulder and tear a rhomboid on her right side. The injuries took her out of filming for a month.[24]
Additionally, during the filming of Blindspot, Alexander experienced many injuries, including: ruptured C6 and C7 discs from being water boarded; herniated T3, T4, T8 and T9 discs; broken nose; dislocated right shoulder; broken right index finger; broken left foot; broken left two toes three times; broken right foot; broken right two toes; dislocated jaw; and other injuries that she was not allowed to disclose.[25]
In March 2018, Alexander was hospitalized and underwent surgery after her appendix ruptured. She later recovered.[26]