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Alycia Jasmin Debnam-Carey (born 20 July 1993[1]) is an Australian actress. She is known for her roles as Commander Lexa on The CW science fiction television series The 100 (2014–2016)[2] and Alicia Clark on the AMC horror drama television series Fear the Walking Dead (2015–present).[3]

Debnam-Carey has also starred in the films Into the Storm (2014)[4] and The Devil's Hand (2014),[5] and Friend Request (2016).[6] She has also appeared in the television series McLeod's Daughters,[7] Dream Life,[8] and Next Stop Hollywood.[4]

Early life In 2011, Debnam-Carey graduated from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts, where she was a percussionist. In 2010, in partnership with the Berlin Philharmonic, she and around 40 other musicians worked together and composed a piece in a two-week program.[9] Debnam-Carey also studied for ten years in classical percussion and has said that she almost went to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but decided that it wasn't what she actually wanted to do.[10][11] In her last year of school, Debnam-Carey took her High-School Certificate exams and managed to get top band (the HSC results are divided with 1 being lowest, 6 being highest) in six of her courses. These included English Advanced, English Extension 1, Drama, Modern History, Music 2 and Visual Arts.[12] She is also best friend with actresses Maia Mitchell and Marny Kennedy. Debnam-Carey also received the Premier's award for receiving a score of 90 in 6 subjects.

Career 2003–2011: Career beginnings Alycia Debnam-Carey started acting at the age of 8. In 2003, she co-starred in Rachel Ward's award-winning short-feature film Martha's New Coat.[14] Later, Debnam-Carey guest-starred in Australian drama series McLeod's Daughters. In 2008, she appeared in television film Dream Life and short film Jigsaw Girl. Debnam-Carey also showed up in the other short films At the Tattooist and The Branch. In 2010, she co-starred in the unsold pilot Resistance[15] and guest-starred in the Australian drama series, Dance Academy.

2012–2013: Los Angeles and Next Stop Hollywood Debnam-Carey began to make her mark in Hollywood at the age of 18, when she traveled to the U.S. for the first time. She starred as the youngest cast member in Next Stop Hollywood, a six-part documentary that followed six Australian actors as they competed for roles during the U.S. TV pilot season. Her mother, Leone Carey, a television writer, accompanied Debnam-Carey on her journey.[16]

Just after two weeks in Hollywood, Debnam-Carey auditioned for the role of Carrie Bradshaw for the new CW series The Carrie Diaries and was asked to audition for an independent feature film, a thriller set in the Amish community. After two more weeks in Hollywood, Debnam-Carey had landed on the short list for The Carrie Diaries and had been offered a lead role in a feature film, The Devil's Hand, then known as The Occult, and the next week left Hollywood to meet a film director in Canada. In the sixth and final week in Hollywood, Debnam-Carey started filming The Devil's Hand in North Carolina. In the end, Debnam-Carey lost the role of Carrie in The Carrie Diaries to actress AnnaSophia Robb. The documentary aired in 2013 on ABC1 in Australia.

While staying in LA, Debnam-Carey became a Heath Ledger Scholarship Finalist in July 2012.[17]