Actress "Alexandra Vino" recently portrayed organized crime victim "Gloria Wiesnewski," opposite Mark Wahlberg in, director Peter Berg's, "Spencer Confidential." She also portrays Octavia, a 1st Century refugee escaping the Roman Empire, in Sony Director Andrew Hyatt's "Paul, the Apostle of Christ," for Affirm Films, opposite Joanne Whalley, Jim Caviezel, and Olivier Martinez. A New York City native of Italian, and Russian descent. Vino's professional acting career was jump started when she was cast as an American Dancer opposite Shahid Kapoor and Anushka Sharma in Director Parmeet Sethi's Bollywood crime comedy, "Badmaa$h Company." Prior to that, she had been a successful teenage Commercial Actress in Manhattan booking over twenty commercials. Titled A "Lifetime Member " of The Actor's Studio in New York, and Los Angeles where she has been studying. Avery landed prominent roles on television series, beginning with the recurring part of Gina Gershon's assistant, Lindsay, in HBO- "How To Make it in America," then CBS- "Golden Boy," and Marvel- "Agent Carter." Vino's additional feature credits include: Director Steve McQueen's "Shame," Joe Dane's "Burying the Ex." In addition to her acting chops, Ms. Vino has been Writing and Directing short films, music videos, and she's an accomplished Fine Artist with many of her large-scale works in the mixed media and charcoal medium being auctioned off to support non-profits like "Stop Poaching Now."