Alexandra Chando

Alexandra Chando is an American actress who portrayed Tara in the eighth season of The Vampire Diaries. She is known for playing the lead roles in .
==Biography==
Alexandra Chando is known for her role as Maddie Coleman in the CBS soap opera, As the World Turns and for her dual role as identical twins, Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer, in the ABC Family drama series The Lying Game. Chando is a native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she graduated from Liberty High School. Her father, Steve Chando, has his own commercial roofing company in Bethlehem called CHM Contracting, and her mother, Rebecca, is a homemaker.She has two older brothers.She currently lives in New York City. Chando attended Manhattan College before becoming an actress.Chando originated the role of Maddie Coleman on the television soap opera As the World Turns, which she played from 2005 to 2007 and again for several months beginning in late 2009. Her experience of being cast on As the World Turns was chronicled from the episode "I'm Getting My Big Break" from the MTV documentary series True Life. She received a 2007 Daytime Emmy Award nomination in the Younger Actress Category. In 2008, Chando was cast as Deb in The WB website series Rockville, CA from Josh Schwartz. She later played Danielle in the 2011 web series Talent, which is based on novels by Zoey Dean. In 2011, Chando was cast in the starring role as identical twins Emma Becker and Sutton Mercer on the ABC Family series The Lying Game. After The Lying Game ended, she appeared on an episode of the television series Castle playing "a Lindsay Lohan/Miley Cyrus type".
==Filmography==
Year 	Title 	Type 	Role
2017 	The Vampire Diaries	TV Series	Tara
2016 	Outcast 	TV Series	Lisa Peyton
2015 	Construction 	 	Colleen
2015 	Hindsight 	TV Series	Noelle
2015 	Dead People 	TV Movie 	Pearl
2014 	Castle 	TV Series	Mandy Sutton
2012 	Construction 	Film 	Colleen
2011-2013	The Lying Game 	TV Series	Emma Becker / Sutton Mercer
2011 	The Talent Show 	TV Series	Danielle
2011 	The Bleeding House 	Film 	Gloria Smith
2010 	Glory Daze 	TV Series	Annabelle
2010 	Medium 	TV Series	Melissa Treynet
2005-2010	As the World Turns 	TV Series	Maddie Coleman
2009 	Sherri 	TV Series	Cab passenger
2009 	Rockville CA 	TV Series	Deb
2002 	House Blend 	TV Movie 	Jenna Harper
==Appearances==
===Season Eight===
*We Have History Together
==Trivia==
* Before Alexandra got her dual role of Emma & Sutton on The Lying Game, she tried out for "The Vampire Diaries" for the role of Elena, which would also landed her role of Katherine too.
==External links==
* Wikipedia
* IMDb
* Twitter
Category:The Vampire Diaries Cast
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Eight Cast
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