Celebrity: Alexandra Chando

Alexandra Chando is an American actress. She 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 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 and ended in early 2010. Her experience of being cast on As the World Turns was chronicled in 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 2009, Chando was cast as Deb in The WB web series Rockville CA from Josh Schwartz. She later played Danielle Anderson in another 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 in the ABC Family series The Lying Game, which ran for two seasons until was canceled by the network. After The Lying Game ended, she appeared on an episode of the television series Castle playing “a Lindsay Lohan/Miley Cyrus type”.