# Alycia Debnam-Carey
**Alycia Debnam-Carey** (full name Alycia Jasmin Debnam-Carey; born 1993) is an Australian actress known for playing the Ground Commander Lexa on [The CW](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-cw)'s post-apocalyptic drama *The 100* and Alicia Clark on AMC's *Fear the Walking Dead*, and more recently for leading roles in *Saint X*, *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart*, and Netflix's *Apple Cider Vinegar*.[1](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1993, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alycia-debnam-carey/credits/3060177571/) |
| Breakout roles | Lexa in *The 100* (seasons 2 and 3, The CW); Alicia Clark in *Fear the Walking Dead* (AMC, from 2015)[1](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828) |
| Training | Graduate of Newtown High School of the Performing Arts (2011); left Australia for the United States at 18[4](https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne%3D562056.html) • [5](https://berwick.starcommunity.com.au/archive-digital-editions/berwick-gazette/2023-08-09_pg_629_64d2287aa2cd5.pdf) |
| Recent work | Emily Thomas in *Saint X* (Hulu, 2023), Alice Hart in *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart* (Prime Video, 2023), Milla Blake in *Apple Cider Vinegar* (Netflix, 2025)[2](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/) • [6](https://www.martincid.com/people/alycia-debnam-carey/) |
| Upcoming | *Godzilla x Kong: Supernova* (2027, post-production) and the series *Queenstown*, currently filming in New Zealand[7](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486317/) • [8](https://bookingagentinfo.com/news/alycia-debnam-carey-signs-with-gersh-for-representation/) |
## Early life and beginnings
Debnam-Carey was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and is the daughter of television scriptwriter Leone Carey.[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alycia-debnam-carey/credits/3060177571/) • [4](https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne%3D562056.html) Her first professional acting experience came in the award-winning short film *Martha's New Coat*, directed by actor [Rachel Ward](https://www.edgepedia.org/rachel-ward); she made her film debut in it at the age of ten in 2003.[5](https://berwick.starcommunity.com.au/archive-digital-editions/berwick-gazette/2023-08-09_pg_629_64d2287aa2cd5.pdf) Through her teens she worked in Australian television and short film, guest-starring in the drama series *McLeod's Daughters* and *Dance Academy*, voicing a role in the animated short *The Safe House*, and appearing in the television film *Dream Life* and the short films *Jigsaw Girl*, *At the Tattooist*, and *The Branch*.[1](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828)
She graduated from Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in 2011 and left Australia for the United States the following year, at age 18, to pursue her career.[4](https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne%3D562056.html) • [5](https://berwick.starcommunity.com.au/archive-digital-editions/berwick-gazette/2023-08-09_pg_629_64d2287aa2cd5.pdf) Early American work included auditioning for the title role of *The Carrie Diaries*, a part that went to [AnnaSophia Robb](https://www.edgepedia.org/annasophia-robb), and playing Mary, a girl with troubling visions, in the horror thriller *The Devil's Hand*.[4](https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne%3D562056.html) In 2012 she was a runner-up for the Heath Ledger Scholarship, which recognizes Australia's young acting talent, and the trade magazine [Australians](https://www.edgepedia.org/australians) in Film named her one of its "Actors to Watch".[1](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828)
## The 100 and Lexa
Debnam-Carey portrayed Lexa, the [Commander](https://www.edgepedia.org/commander) of the Grounders, in the second and third seasons of *[The 100](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-100-tv-series)*, a post-apocalyptic science fiction drama on The CW.[1](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828) The character became a fan favorite, inspiring a passionate following that produced extensive fan fiction and artwork. Debnam-Carey said the attention first felt like an invasion of privacy, but that she came to see it as "nice that the character can be shared".[9](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/alycia-debnam-carey)
Lexa's death in the episode "Thirteen" was closely tied to Debnam-Carey's other commitments. Scholarly accounts of the episode note that she had begun work as a series regular on AMC's *Fear the Walking Dead*, which limited her availability to *The 100* and increased the likelihood of the character's death; one analysis states the decision to kill Lexa was due to her contractual obligations with the other series.[10](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a380/4623fa743ea9e0ea28d31478571425864082.pdf) • [11](https://repositori.udl.cat/bitstreams/e89dd69e-7da4-4ac0-a8e0-01adb094e932/download) The character's death became a focal point of the #LGBTFansDeserveBetter boycott and fundraising campaign on social media in March 2016, which targeted the show's cast and crew, including Debnam-Carey.[12](https://fanstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fsn-2017-abridged-draft-programme1.pdf)
## Fear the Walking Dead
In 2015 Debnam-Carey joined *Fear the Walking Dead*, the companion spinoff to AMC's *The Walking Dead*, as a series regular playing Alicia Clark, the daughter of [Kim Dickens](https://www.edgepedia.org/kim-dickens)'s character Madison Clark and sister of [Frank Dillane](https://www.edgepedia.org/frank-dillane)'s Nick.[13](https://www.thewrap.com/alycia-debnam-carey-on-dramatic-shift-to-fear-the-walking-dead-from-the-100-i-have-no-weapons-no-power/) • [2](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/) The role was a deliberate contrast with Lexa. "I have no power anymore! No weapons, no power!" she told TheWrap, describing the shift from a self-assured warrior to a normal high school student as "a very dramatic shift".[13](https://www.thewrap.com/alycia-debnam-carey-on-dramatic-shift-to-fear-the-walking-dead-from-the-100-i-have-no-weapons-no-power/) She told [Interview](https://www.edgepedia.org/interview) magazine that playing normal was the hard part, "especially playing normal that's not you", and that her biggest challenge was making a teenage girl seem fully formed rather than a stock moody teenager.[9](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/alycia-debnam-carey) • [14](https://www.thewrap.com/alycia-debnam-carey-on-fans-fear-the-walking-dead-and-leaving-behind-the-100/)
Her work on the show included directing as well as acting, and it earned her a Saturn Award nomination for Best Younger Actor on a Television Series.[3](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alycia-debnam-carey/credits/3060177571/) • [15](https://cdn.showcast.com.au/actor-pdfs/26537cee-84e7-4bfd-b244-b8b786efb88a.pdf)
## Post-apocalypse career
After *Fear the Walking Dead*, Debnam-Carey moved through a sequence of projects outside genre television. She played Emily Thomas in Hulu's psychological drama *Saint X* (2023) and the title role in Prime Video's *The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart* (2023), an adaptation of [Holly Ringland](https://www.edgepedia.org/holly-ringland)'s novel about family violence in rural Australia; the latter earned her an AACTA Award nomination for supporting actress.[2](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/) • [6](https://www.martincid.com/people/alycia-debnam-carey/) She described the role of Alice as a homecoming story, and Vogue noted that the determination that drove her studies at Newtown Performing Arts carried into her pursuit of the part.[16](https://www.vogue.com/article/alycia-debnam-carey-the-lost-flowers-of-alice-hart-interview) • [5](https://berwick.starcommunity.com.au/archive-digital-editions/berwick-gazette/2023-08-09_pg_629_64d2287aa2cd5.pdf)
In 2024 she appeared in the film *It's What's Inside*, and in 2025 she played Milla Blake in Netflix's limited series *Apple Cider Vinegar*, about the wellness influencer [Belle Gibson](https://www.edgepedia.org/belle-gibson)'s fabricated cancer narrative. Milla is a young woman who genuinely had cancer and promoted alternative medicine as treatment, and the character functions as the moral weight against which Gibson's fraud is measured.[7](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486317/) • [6](https://www.martincid.com/people/alycia-debnam-carey/) Her Metacritic television record shows a career average Metascore of 63, with *Apple Cider Vinegar* the highest at 71 and *Saint X* the lowest at 51.[2](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/)
Her upcoming slate includes *Godzilla x Kong: Supernova*, in post-production for 2027, and the New Zealand-filmed series *Queenstown*, in which she is a series regular opposite [Rufus Sewell](https://www.edgepedia.org/rufus-sewell).[7](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486317/) • [8](https://bookingagentinfo.com/news/alycia-debnam-carey-signs-with-gersh-for-representation/) In 2026 she signed with The Gersh Agency for U.S. film and television theatrical representation, led by agents Chris Horsman and Jasmine Mausner, while retaining United Management for Australian representation, [Entertainment](https://www.edgepedia.org/entertainment) 360 for management, and Shelter PR for publicity.[8](https://bookingagentinfo.com/news/alycia-debnam-carey-signs-with-gersh-for-representation/)
## References
1. [Alycia Debnam-Carey | Fear the Walking Dead Bios, AMC](https://www.amc.com/shows/fear-the-walking-dead/cast/alycia-debnam-carey--1032828)
2. [Alycia Debnam-Carey, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/person/alycia-debnam-carey/)
3. [Alycia Debnam-Carey List of Movies and TV Shows, TV Guide](https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alycia-debnam-carey/credits/3060177571/)
4. [Alycia Debnam-Carey, AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne%3D562056.html)
5. [Cover Story, Berwick Gazette (9 August 2023)](https://berwick.starcommunity.com.au/archive-digital-editions/berwick-gazette/2023-08-09_pg_629_64d2287aa2cd5.pdf)
6. [Alycia Debnam-Carey, who spent a decade in parallel apocalypses and is now picking her own disasters, Martin Cid Magazine](https://www.martincid.com/people/alycia-debnam-carey/)
7. [Alycia Debnam-Carey, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486317/)
8. [Alycia Debnam-Carey Signs With Gersh For Representation, Booking Agent Info](https://bookingagentinfo.com/news/alycia-debnam-carey-signs-with-gersh-for-representation/)
9. [Alycia Debnam-Carey, Interview Magazine (June 5, 2016)](https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/alycia-debnam-carey)
10. ["The 100" and the Social Contract of Social TV](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a380/4623fa743ea9e0ea28d31478571425864082.pdf)
11. [Trabajo de fin de grado (Universitat de Lleida repository)](https://repositori.udl.cat/bitstreams/e89dd69e-7da4-4ac0-a8e0-01adb094e932/download)
12. [Fan Studies Network 2017 draft programme](https://fanstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fsn-2017-abridged-draft-programme1.pdf)
13. [Alycia Debnam-Carey on 'Dramatic Shift' to 'Fear the Walking Dead' From 'The 100', TheWrap (August 23, 2015)](https://www.thewrap.com/alycia-debnam-carey-on-dramatic-shift-to-fear-the-walking-dead-from-the-100-i-have-no-weapons-no-power/)
14. [Alycia Debnam-Carey on Fans, 'Fear The Walking Dead' and Leaving Behind 'The 100', TheWrap (June 14, 2016)](https://www.thewrap.com/alycia-debnam-carey-on-fans-fear-the-walking-dead-and-leaving-behind-the-100/)
15. [Alycia Debnam-Carey showcast profile](https://cdn.showcast.com.au/actor-pdfs/26537cee-84e7-4bfd-b244-b8b786efb88a.pdf)
16. [Alycia Debnam-Carey Finds Her Way Back Home, Vogue (July 26, 2023)](https://www.vogue.com/article/alycia-debnam-carey-the-lost-flowers-of-alice-hart-interview)
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