Aleksa Palladino Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Independent film star Aleksa Palladino began her career in a starring role, at the age of 15, in Lisa Krueger's debut feature Manny & Lo (1996). Palladino played Lo, the pregnant runaway sister of Manny (Scarlett Johansson). For the next couple of years, she continued getting starring roles in...Read More

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei, Albert Finney, Michael Shannon

Synopsis: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, and Marisa Tomei star in director Sidney Lumet's thriller concerning two brothers who hatch a plan to rob their parent's jewelry store. When the job goes awry, the entire family is set on a collision course with tragedy. Andy (Hoffman) is an Read More

10/26/07
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Actors: David Gallagher, Christian Camargo, Noah Segan, Aleksa Palladino, Michael Goduti

Synopsis: Oscar Wilde's provocative classic comes to new life on the big screen in this haunting tale of vanity ripped straight from today's tabloid headlines. As a young man, Dorian Gray's beguiling innocence captured the eye of famed artist Basil Hallward. As the two enter into a close friendship, Basil Read More

2007
Find Me Guilty

Actors: Vin Diesel, Peter Dinklage, Linus Roache, Ron Silver, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: A wise guy turns his own trial upside down by serving as his own lawyer in this comedy drama based on a true story. In 1987, an extensive investigation into the activities of the Lucchese crime family led to charges being filed against most of the key members of the gang, leading to the Read More

3/17/06
Mona Lisa Smile

Actors: Julia Roberts, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Juliet Stevenson, Dominic West, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: Set in 1953, Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a new young art history professor at Wellesley College, an all-female campus with a prestigious reputation for academic excellence. Unfortunately for free-minded Berkeley grad Watson, her East Coast teaching stint Read More

12/19/03
Storytelling

Actors: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Wisdom, Noah Fleiss

Synopsis: From the controversial director of Happiness comes another dark look at New Jersey, this time broken into two separate stories. The first is a 26-minute segment entitled "Fiction," which highlights the life of Marcus (Leo Fitzpatrick), an aspiring writer who was born with deformities due to Read More

1/25/02
Ball in the House

Actors: Jonathan Tucker, Jennifer Tilly, David Strathairn, Dan Moran, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Following up on her crowd pleasing 1998 film Finding North, Tanya Wexler directs this tweaked coming-of-age drama about a troubled teen and his even more troubled family. Having just come out of detox for drugs and alcohol, JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home hoping for a little comfort and solace Read More

2001
Red Dirt

Actors: Karen Black, Dan Montgomery, Aleksa Palladino, Walton Goggins

Synopsis: In this Southern gothic drama, Griffith (Dan Montgomery) has lived all his life in the poor Mississippi community of Pine Apple. While Griffith wants to move on and try to make something of his life, he's stranded in Pine Apple by his responsibilities to his crippled Aunt Summer (Karen Black) and Read More

2000
Cherry

Actors: Shalom Harlow, Jake Weber, Isaach de Bankolé, Laurel Holloman, Donovan Leitch

Synopsis: In the romantic comedy Cherry, Leila Sweet (Shalom Harlow) has begun to hear the faint rumblings of her biological clock at the age of 29. This isn't unusual in itself, but Leila's key obstacle in her dilemma about having a child is rather uncommon -- she's still a virgin. Leila was stood up at Read More

1999
Wrestling with Alligators

Actors: Aleksa Palladino, Joely Richardson, Claire Bloom, Sam Trammell, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: Laurie Weltz directed this period drama, set in 1959 at a seaside New Jersey town where former silent-screen actress Lulu Fraker (Claire Bloom) runs Lulu's Look Out, a women's rooming house. Teen Maddy Hawkins (Aleksa Palladino of Manny & Lo), employed at a local garage, feels abandoned after the Read More

1998
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

Actors: Adrian Grenier, Clark Gregg, Aleksa Palladino, Margaret Colin, John Shea

Synopsis: Tod Williams made his feature directorial debut with this teen comedy-drama set in 1983. High school senior and writer wannabe Sebastian Cole (Adrian Grenier) survives a car accident in a remote Southwestern area near the trailer home of a Spanish-speaking woman. As she dresses his wounds Read More

1998
Manny & Lo

Actors: Dean Silvers, Scarlett Johansson, Aleksa Palladino, Mary Kay Place, Glenn Fitzgerald, Angie Phillips

Synopsis: The debut feature from writer/director Lisa Krueger stars Scarlett Johansson and Aleksa Palladino as the titular Manny and Lo, orphaned teenaged sisters who avoid foster homes by living on the run, stealing food, and sleeping in random model homes. Older sister Lo is the rude, bossy, incompetent Read More

1996