Alex Rice: Entertainment has a Lucy Lui, a Jennifer Lopez and a Halle Berry, but they don’t have an Alex Rice yet!
Alex Rice: There is beauty even in the darkest of places.
Alex's mom, Melody, when asked about marriage, says she thinks a girl should wait until she's 30 before tying the knot, and doesn't harp on Alex about it.
Alex was one of two Kahnawake residents chosen to go to Los Angeles for an MIT modeling convention and soon after landed a job working behind the scenes on the Judge Judy television show.
Alex graduated from Our Lady of Perpetual Help High School in New York City.
In 1999, Alex was cast in a lead role for the musical production "The Quest for Madoc", a play which ran in Cardiff, Wales, celebrating the bicentennial of the journey of an explorer named John Evans who traveled from North Wales to the U.S. in 1792 in search of Welsh-speaking Indians.
Rice was initially rejected by most Hollywood casting agents who told her there were no parts for a Native American in mainstream television and films.
Alex Rice: I want to be the first Native American to host Saturday Night Live. I want to be the first Native American Bond girl.
Alex won the Best Actress Award from the American Indian Film Institute for her role in the PBS Mystery movie Coyote Waits.
She decided against a career in dancing after she got her first role in a video produced for her high school.
Alex is a member of the Mohawk Nation of Native Americans.
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