Tania Raymonde
Tania Raymonde Helen Katz, (born March 22, 1988) is an American actress and artist. Her career first caught traction when she played the recurring character of Cynthia Sanders on the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle" between 2000 and 2002, followed by the role of Alex Rousseau in the ABC series "Lost" from 2006 to 2010. She has since played Carla Rinaldi on MTV's "Death Valley" (2011), starred in the horror film "Texas Chainsaw 3D" (2013), and portrayed Jodi Arias, the title role in the TV movie "" (2013). In April 2015, she joined the cast of the  TNT series "The Last Ship". Since 2016 she has starred in the Amazon Video series "Goliath". Early life. Tania Raymonde Helen Katz was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents Anne-Marie and Jon Katz. Her father is a Jewish American of Polish-Jewish descent, and her mother is French, a Catholic from Corsica. She attended the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, where she obtained her French baccalauréat. Career. Raymonde's first television role was as Alice/Young Syd in the "Syd in Wonderland" episode of the TV series "Providence". She subsequently appeared on other TV series, including "The Brothers  Garcia", "The Nightmare Room", "That's So Raven", "The Guardian", "Lost", "Medium", "Malcolm in the Middle", and "NCIS". She starred in the film "Children on Their Birthdays" (2002), her first feature film role. In 2003 she played Lauren O'Keefe in the sitcom "The O'Keefes". She is most known for her work on the ABC drama "Lost", where she played Alex Rousseau, the adopted daughter of Benjamin Linus, played by Michael Emerson. She also appeared in the films "The Garage" (2006), "The Other Side of the Tracks" (2008), "Japan" (2008), "Chasing 3000" (2008), and "Elsewhere" (2009). She recurred opposite the late  Dennis Hopper on the Starz series "Crash". Raymonde also had a recurring role as Frankie Rafferty, Danny Pino's love interest, on season 6 of "Cold Case". At age 17, she wrote, edited and directed the short film "Cell Division", which competed in film festivals around the country. She appears in the music video for Maroon 5's "Won't Go Home Without You". In 2013, Raymonde was cast in "Chicago P.D.", a spin-off of the NBC series "Chicago Fire". She, along with co-star Scott Eastwood, left the show for creative reasons. Raymonde also portrayed the convicted murderer  Jodi Arias in the Lifetime original movie "" (2013). She is working on her first feature as a director—a crime thriller she wrote set in Orange County, California, called "Little Saigon". Since 2016 she has starred on the Golden Globe-winning Amazon series "Goliath", alongside Billy Bob Thornton.