Multilingual actress Daphne Alexander was born in Cyprus and trained at Oxford University and LAMDA. She came to prominence playing nurse Nadia Talianos on the BBC's long running medical drama "Casualty". After this she has worked internationally, playing roles in Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer", Osunsanmi's "The Fourth Kind" and HBO's "House of Saddam". More recently she took on the roles of Catherine Horton in "Smyrna" and Aliki in "Minore". She played leading roles in award-winning films "The Palace" and "The Siege on Liperti Street".

She has played Modesty Blaise for BBC Radio 4, and has worked onstage in London and New York.

Daphne loves languages and speaks native English and Greek, fluent French as well as conversational German and Levantine Arabic. She divides her time between London, Athens and Paris.