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Khandi Alexander is a professional
American dancer, choreographer as well as an actress. She has appeared in many
movies and TV shows, but is best known for her role of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexx_Woods">Dr.</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexx_Woods">Alexx Woods</a> in CSI: Miami as well as in HBO’s Treme, where she played the character of
LaDonna Batiste-Williams. Dancing from a very young age, she started out as an
actress after appearing in small TV roles from later 80s. Her first notable
role came in 1985, after she appeared in FTV, a sketch-comedy show. Toward early
1990, she started to concentrate in more pivotal roles that came in TV shows
and movies such as Sugar Hill, Poetic Justice,
What's Love Got to Do with It and CB4.

Then, she got a major role, maybe
her first prominent role in NBC’s comedy series News Radio. Again in ER, she played the role of Jackie Robbins and
made several guest appearances in TV shows like Body of Proof, La Femme Nikita,
Third Watch, Cosby, Better off Ted and many others. Her role of Fran Boyd, a
single mother addicted to drugs was very promising in the series The Corner, for which she won a critical
acclaim for her performance in 2000. She also won the Emmy Award for her role,
and the series won an Emmy of its own. Probably known for her longest serving
role in CSI: Miami, she played in
that show from 2002 to 2008 and later returned in a special role in 2009.

Khandi was born on the 4th
of September 1957, and was raised in New York City, USA. She was born into a
family of performers, as her mother Alverina Yavonna was an opera singer/
dancer whereas her father Roland Alexander had a construction business. From
the age of 6, she learned dancing of different forms; contemporary, opera and
tango. With her performing skills, she impressed the dance teacher at her
school. Studying in Queens borough
Community College, she made her debut in Broadway in musical plays like Dreamgirls, Chicago, Dream Girls and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Fosse">Bob Fosse</a>'s Dancing. Her other notable
works in early career was when she appeared as a dancer in the music video of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole">Natalie
Cole</a>’s “Pink Cadillac", which was released in 1988. The same year, she was
assigned as the choreographer for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Houston">Whitney Houston</a>’s world tour from 1988 to
1992. With a great talent and potential, she has been working actively since
1985 and has made a fortune. With a reputed fame and popularity, she has a big
fan following on her Twitter site.

Having appeared in more than 100
different TV shows and films, her work and talent has earned her a lot of money
and fame, along with different awards. She was nominated for the NAACP Image
Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, for her role in News Radio. In 2001, she received the Black
Reel Awards for Best Actress for her role in The Corner. Her role in Treme
saw her received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama
Series in 2013. She was recently nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for her
role in Scandal, having already
received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama
Series, for the same series.

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