Lyndsy Fonseca Biography

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born January 7, 1987) is an American actress best known for portraying the roles of Alexandra "Alex" Udinov on The CW show Nikita and Colleen Carlton on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Early life

Fonseca was born in Oakland, California, the daughter of Lima Lynn (née Bergmann) and James Victor Fonseca. Her father is of Portuguese descent, and her mother is of half Portuguese ancestry. Her stepfather is attorney Reid Dworkin, and her younger half-sister is Hannah Dworkin. Fonseca was raised first in Alameda and then after her mother remarried, moved to Oakland and then Moraga. She was discovered in San Francisco by a talent manager. She then relocated to Los Angeles for her first pilot season at age 13 in the middle of the school year. The following year she booked her breakthrough role, playing Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless with a three-year contract. With that, her mother and stepfather moved the whole family to Los Angeles. Since the end of her contract, she has booked many television guest spots, television movies, several pilots and films.

Career

In 2005, She earned a recurring role as Ted Mosby's future daughter on How I Met Your Mother and as Donna on HBO's Big Love. She starred in the 2005 Hallmark TV film Ordinary Miracles, as a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who goes to live with a judge (Jaclyn Smith).

In fall 2007, she played Dawn in the film Remember the Daze. She joined the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives as the daughter of Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving onto Wisteria Lane. In 2008 she was nominated for the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives (2004), shared with the cast.

Fonseca played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass which also featured her Nikita co-star Xander Berkeley in the cast. She appeared in three more US films in 2010, including Hot Tub Time Machine. In 2010, she was cast in the CW television series Nikita as Alex, a new recruit.

She was listed at #62 in the 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and #89 in the 2011 list.

Personal life

Fonseca married artist and writer Matthew Smiley in April 2009. The couple split in July 2012 and Fonseca filed for divorce in 2013, citing "irreconcilable differences".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	I Do, They Don't	Sandy Barber	Television film
2005	Ordinary Miracles	Sally Anne Powell	Television film
2005	Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life	Amy	Television film
2006	Intellectual Property	Jenny
2007	Remember the Daze	Dawn
2010	Kick-Ass	Katie Deauxma
2010	Hot Tub Time Machine	Jenny
2010	'	Iris
2011	Fort McCoy	Anna Gerkey
2011	Five	Cheyanne	Television film
2013	Kick-Ass 2	Katie Deauxma

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
	'	Colleen Carlton	Role held: May 30, 2001 " May 17, 2004; December 24, 2004 " February 9, 2005
2003	Boston Public	Jenn Cardell	4 episodes
2004	Malcolm in the Middle	Olivia	Episode: "Lois' Sister"
2004	NYPD Blue	Madison Bernstein	Episode: "Colonel Knowledge"
2004	Switched!	Herself	Episode: "Lyndsy/Jessie"
2005"present	How I Met Your Mother	Ted's future daughter	Recurring. Archive footage from season 3 (2007) onwards
2006	Scarlett	Kasey	Unsold Lifetime pilot
2006	Waterfront	Annabelle Marks	Unsold CBS pilot
2006"2007, 2009	Big Love	Donna	6 episodes
2006	Phil of the Future	Kristy	Episode: "Not-So-Great Great Great Grandpa"
2007	Close to Home	Jessica Conlon	Episode: "Hoosier Hold Em"
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Megan Cooper	Episode: "Fallen Idols"
2007	House	Addie	Episode: "Resignation"
2007	Heroes	April	Episode: "Four Months Later..."
2007"2009	Desperate Housewives	Dylan Mayfair	15 episodes
2008	Austin Golden Hour	Lane	Unsold CW pilot
2009	'	Jessie	Unsold CBS pilot
2010"present	Nikita	Alexandra "Alex" Udinov	Main cast Nominated"?Teen Choice Award for Choice TV Actress: Action