Alexandria Riley

Alexandria Riley was born and raised in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.

Riley completed a BA in Applied Drama at the University of Wales, Newport. She graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2022.

Documentaries:

Riley anchored the Welsh documentary film Mixed, part of the New Voices from Wales series, broadcast on BBC Two Wales in March 2019, which looked at her own experiences, and those of others, being mixed-race in Wales. She also featured in the Liana Stewart 2020 documentary Black and Welsh.

Acting:

She had early acting roles in The End of the F***ing World and the BBC Three comedy In My Skin.

She played DI Ella Richards in ITV crime series The Pembrokeshire Murders in 2024. She was nominated for a leading actress BAFTA Award at the 2021 BAFTA Cymru Awards for her role.

She also appeared as Natalie in BBC Wales comedy The Tuckers, in which she starred opposite creator Steve Speirs, and S4C's Bang. She appeared in stage productions for National Theatre Wales.

In 2023, she appeared in Wales-set British television film Men Up. From 2023, she played Camille Sims, wife of Robert (Common), in the Apple TV+ series Silo.

She had roles in Baby Reindeer and Lost Boys and Fairies, as well as the BBC One crime mystery series Death Valley, alongside Timothy Spall, among others.

She has a Welsh mother and a father from the Caribbean. She has four children.