Alexa Swinton

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Alexa Swinton
Born (2009-07-02) July 2, 2009 (age 16)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationsActress, singer, songwriter
Years active2012–present

Alexa Jacqueline Skye Idelchik Swinton[1] (born July 2, 2009) is an American actress, singer and songwriter.[2][3][4][5] She appeared in a lead role as Piper in the 13-episode ABC Prime Time series called Emergence,[6] has a recurring role as Eva Rhoades in Billions,[7] and the HBO series And Just Like That..., where she plays the character of Rock Goldenblatt.[8] She appeared in M. Night Shyamalan's Old, playing the role of Young Maddox.[9][10]

Career

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Swinton originated the role of Addie in Make Believe, written by Bess Wohl, and directed by Jackson Gay at the Hartford Stage.[11] Swinton's first leading role in television was as Piper in Emergence.[6] The show ran for 13 episodes from 2019 to 2020.[12] She first performed her original song "You, Me and My Purple Docs" publicly on Canadian TV station CHCH-DT in Hamilton, Ontario.[13] Swinton has a recurring role as Eva Rhoades, the daughter of main characters Chuck and Wendy Rhoades in Showtime's television drama Billions.[10][14] She acted in M. Night Shyamalan's feature film Old playing the role of young Maddox.[10]

She plays the recurring role of Rock Goldenblatt, child of Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the HBO series And Just Like That...[10][15] Swinton's role has been called "groundbreaking".[16]

Personal life

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Swinton is of paternal Scottish heritage and is distantly related to the actress Tilda Swinton. A resident of New Jersey, she is Jewish, as is her mother, and celebrated her bat mitzvah in Israel in 2023.[17]

Filmography

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Year Title Role Notes
2012 River of Fundament Norman Mailer's daughter Feature Film
2014 Little Brain Surgeries Girl from the Vision Short
2017 Speed of Light Young Rose Short
2018 I've Lost Her Young Maggie Short
2018 Nettles Sam Short
2018 BeLoved Julia Short
2019 Reverb Annie Short
2019 Sometime Other Than Now Molly Feature Film
2021 Old 11-year-old Maddox Cappa Feature Film
2022 Love's Baby Soft Dolores Short
2023 Maestro Nina Bernstein Feature Film
2025 Thunderbolts* Anya Feature Film
TBA Behemoth! TBA Feature Film; filming

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2012 Mythos Ellie 4 Episodes
2014 Zach Fox Show Kid Playing with Toy
2015 Flesh and Bone Young Claire Scorched Earth
2015 Today Badly Behaving Child Rossen Reports
2015 The View Herself Modeling appearance
2016 Saturday Night Live Daughter of Big Family Selena Gomez Guest Host
2016–2023 Billions Eva Rhoades Appears in multiple episodes each season
2017 Saturday Night Live Girl in Immigration Line Alec Baldwin Guest Host
2018 The Tonight Show Punk Kid Ice Cube / Dale Earnhardt Jr.
2019 Manifest Chloe Upgrade
2019–2020 Emergence Piper Series regular
2021–2025 And Just Like That... Rock Goldenblatt 17 Episodes

Theater

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Year Title Role Notes
2016 Annie Warbucks Molly Signature Theatre
2017 Madeline's Christmas Anne Lion Theatre
2017 Kooky Spook Young Inna Duke Theatre
2017 Santa Doesn't Come to the Holiday Inn Daughter Ensemble Studio Theatre
2017 The Department Party Violet Playwright Horizons
2018 Make Believe Addie Hartford Stage

Discography

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Studio recording
  • You, Me and My Purple Docs (2020)[18]
  • Happy As I Wanna Be (2021)
  • What Would I Change It To (2022)

References

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  1. ^ "In the Matter of the Application of Inna Idelchik Swinton to Change the Name of Alexa Jacqueline Idelchik Swinton To: Alexa Jacqueline Skye Idelchik Swinton", The Record, January 14, 2016. Accessed January 22, 2025, via Newspapers.com.
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  17. ^ "And Just Like That… star Alexa Swinton is having her bat mitzvah in Israel", The Jewish Journal, June 30, 2023. Accessed January 22, 2025. "In real life, Swinton, a prolific actress who has starred in shows like Billions and Emergence, is celebrating the debut of the second season of HBO’s And Just Like That…, which premiered last week — and her own bat mitzvah.... It will take place next week at Apollonia National Park in Herzliya, her mother told Kveller."
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