Why Alexa Speyer Is The Toronto-Born Actress You Need To Know

With an Encore Award–winning LA musical, prestigious training, national brand campaigns and a multi-medium slate, the bicoastal actress has quietly built one of the most accomplished resumes in Hollywood Alexa Speyer is having more than a moment — and HollywoodLife has the receipts on the Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based actress who is quietly stacking one of the most varied resumes in Hollywood.Speyer is currently in production on a feature film with director Luca Pizzoleo, fresh off an Encore Award–winning starring run in the LA musical Authenticity.

She has booked national ad campaigns opposite MLB legend Jose Bautista, lead vocals on a kids album with a veteran producer, and a multi-year stretch of working bookings across film, stage, voiceover, and commercial work.The result is the kind of slate that does not happen by accident — and it is starting to draw the attention of audiences, casting directors, and the LA industry press alike.

Here is the case for the actress audiences are about to be very familiar with.The pedigree.

Speyer’s training reads like a working-actress how-to.She started dance lessons as a toddler.

She was placed in professional voice training at age 10.She graduated from the competitive musical theatre stream at Toronto’s Etobicoke School of the Arts before earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at AMDA in New York — the same school whose alumni roster includes Anthony Ramos, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Jason Derulo.

In Los Angeles, she has continued her studio work with Ivana Chubbuck, Tom Draper, Lewis Baumander, and Armstrong Acting Studios.Two decades of structured training, and the credits prove it.

The wins.Speyer led the cast of Authenticity, the Hollywood Fringe musical that took home the Encore Award before being brought back for a full mounting at Los Angeles Centre Studios.

Inside the LA stage scene, that is a real win — an Encore signals a sold-out run with strong audience scores, and the full r...