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Lost Alex Biography
Alexandra, commonly known as "Alex," is a recurring fictional character
on the ABC television series Lost played by Tania Raymonde. She was
born 16 years prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but was taken
from her mother, Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) by the Others. She was
raised among them, believing her mother to be dead. She has helped the
survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on many occasions, and is reunited with
her mother at the end of the third season. Not long after however, she
is shot and killed by Keamy (Kevin Durand) after her adoptive father,
Ben (Michael Emerson), would not listen to his demands. Her death scene
was received positively by critics, earning it a spot on multiple "top
moments of the season" lists.
Arc
Before the crash
A heavily pregnant Danielle Rousseau and her husband Robert shipwreck
on the island, 16 years before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, during
a French scientific expedition. Rousseau's team becomes sick, so she
kills them all, and later gives birth to Alexandra.[1] Rousseau claims
she saw a column of black smoke on the island a week later and Alex was
taken from her by the Others. A significant member of the Others named
Ben adopts Alex and tells her that her mother died.
After the crash
Season 2
Sixteen years later, Alex meets the pregnant woman Claire Littleton (Emilie
de Ravin), whom the Other, Ethan Rom (William Mapother), had kidnapped
to take her baby. Alex tells her that the Others will kill Claire once
they get her baby. She knocks Claire unconscious and leaves her in the
jungle to find her way safely back to her camp. Alex later asks
Michael (Harold Perrineau) if she is alright, when the Others capture
him. They send him back to the beach camp with a mission to bring to
them other survivors of the plane crash: Jack
(Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly),
Sawyer
(Josh Holloway) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia).
Alex helps in their capture and transport to a smaller island nearby.
Season 3
Armed with a slingshot, Alex attempts to break
Kate
and Sawyer out of where they are being held captive, but stops and
gives up when another Other, Danny Pickett (Michael Bowen) pulls a gun
on her. In a later
rescue attempt, Alex is successful in helping Kate and Sawyer escape.
She agrees to let them back to the main island so long as they help
rescue her boyfriend, Karl (Blake Bashoff). After finding where he is,
they break him out of a mysterious room where he has been undergoing
brainwashing. Alex, Kate, Sawyer, and Karl are about to leave when
Danny turns up intending to kill Kate and Sawyer. Juliet (Elizabeth
Mitchell) steps in, shooting Danny dead. Juliet allows Sawyer, Kate,
and Karl to leave, but insists Alex stays. Later Alex helps Jack escape
from his cell to stop Juliet's execution. Thanks to their interference,
Juliet is not executed, only "marked."
Alex, along with the rest of the Others and Jack, returns to her home
in Barracks. She is surprised when Sayid (Naveen Andrews), part of the
rescue party that has arrived to get Jack, says that he knows her
thought-to-be deceased mother. She later unknowingly walks past
Danielle Rousseau, her mother, while taking Locke
(Terry O'Quinn) to the Other's submarine at Ben's request.
The Others leave the Barracks and begin travelling to the Temple with
Locke, as he wishes to join them. After he is initiated, Alex
approaches Locke, and gives him a pistol, claiming he'll need it if he
was planning to meet the leader of the Others, Jacob. However, when Ben
returns alone the next day, he bitterly returns the gun to her, and
reveals his plan for a group of Others to go to the survivor's camp
that night and kidnap the pregnant women. Sensing trouble, Alex flees
into the jungle in search of Karl, who has been living in hiding since
his escape. She gives him her gun and tells him he must warn the
survivors. The two kiss before Karl heads off. Ben goes to confront the
survivors, bringing Alex with him. On the way there, Ben tells her that
he is taking her to her new family, explaining the reason he locked
Karl up was he didn't want him getting Alex pregnant. Once they meet
the survivors, Ben reunites Alex with her mother.
Season 4
She joins Locke's group who head to the Barracks, fearing people on an
incoming freighter. Ben sends Alex, Karl and Danielle to the Temple for
extra safety, but on the way they are ambushed by mercenaries from the
freighter who are looking for Ben, resulting in Karl and Danielle being
shot. Alex surrenders shouting that she was Ben's daughter.
She is used as a hostage to try and have Ben surrender. Alex sets off a
distress signal at the electric fence surrounding the Barracks to warn
Ben and the others that the mercenaries were coming. They threaten to
kill her if Ben will not surrender himself. Ben refuses, and the lead
mercenary, Keamy, executes Alex with one gunshot to the head. Later,
Ben goes to Alex's body to say goodbye.
When Ben meets Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), the man who sent the
freighter, he blames him for Alex's death, and in revenge vows to kill
Charles' daughter Penelope (Sonya Walger).
Characteristics
Alex is a renegade Other that often turns her back on her group in
order to help the crash survivors. Sawyer nicknames her
"Sheena", a reference to
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, a girl raised
in the jungle who is an expert in fighting with makeshift weapons.
Development
Tania Raymonde was told her character would be called "Jessica" when
first cast in the role. Furthermore, her character was promoted as a
survivor who would be introduced in Maternity Leave.Cast members often
read fake lines with a different name in their audition to limit
potential spoilers from leaking. In her first appearance, Raymonde
was credited as "young girl", preventing viewers knowing in advance
that Alex would be introduced.
Furlan met Raymonde for the first time just minutes before shooting
their reunion scene in the season three finale. The actors believed
the scene to be a "huge moment" for their characters, which Furlan
described as a "basic human moment". Furlan was glad to have "such
a beautiful partner", and noted their physical resemblance.
