Alessandra Torresani Biography

Alessandra Olivia Toreson was born May 29, 1987 in Palo Alto, California. She is an only child. She studied dancing, singing and acting since she was two years old. As a child, she performed nationally in dance competitions and won many national titles and is a world dance champion in jazz and tap. In addition to the arts, Alessandra is also a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do and achieved this feat by the age of nine.


Alessandra Torresani stars opposite Eric Stolz and Esai Morales as Zoe Graystone on SyFy's critically-acclaimed new drama Caprica (named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's "50 Best Reasons to Watch TV"). A prequel to the mega-hit Battlestar Galactica, Caprica is set 58 earlier in the Galactica universe and differs significantly from its parent series. Alessandra's Zoe is pivotal in this story of how a self-involved and success-intoxicated Colonial humanity first creates Cylons. This new imagining of a world only a few decades ahead of our own will explore the ethical implications of advances in artificial intelligence and robotics framed within "television's first science-fiction family saga".


Alessandra, a multi-talented performer, has starred on "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "E.R.", "Malcolm in the Middle", "Arrested Development", "Bones", "The Sarah Connor Chronicles", "Happy Campers", and the Joel Silver pilot "Newton", among many others. By the time the Palo Alto, California native was asked to host "WB Kid's Club" at nine years old, she was a veteran of numerous dance and athletic competitions, having already been named a national dance champion in jazz and tap, and achieving a black belt in Tae-Kwon-Do. Her long string of roles on some of television's most-watched shows would soon begin, as well as star turns in the films "Lost & Found", opposite David Spade, "Going to the Mat", and "Baby Bedlam."


Alessandra Torresani is an actress best known for her roles on television, including Arrested Development, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and CSI. Her training, however, wasn’t on acting. She studied dancing and singing since she was two. She made her television debut at the age of nine when she hosted the Kids WB Club in San Francisco. She also co-starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie Going to the Matt. Torresani’s other screen credits include Even Stevens, JAG, ER, The War at Home, Malcolm in the Middle, Arrested Development, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and CSI. In 2008, she was cast as Zoe Graystone on the Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica.