Alexandra Wager is an American former child actress. Wager is the daughter of actor

Michael Wager Michael Wager (born Emanuel Weisgal, April 29, 1925 c. January 2012) was an American film and television actor. Wager was born in New York, New York, and nicknamed "Mendy". He was the son of Meyer Weisgal, a journalist, publisher, playwright, f ...

. She made her television debut in March 1958, at age seven, in role of Mimi in the

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production of Mrs. McThing'', playing opposite

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. Wager's second television appearance was as Flora in NBC's October 1959 production of ''

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'', playing opposite

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. She was nominated at the 1959 Sylvania Television Awards for outstanding performance by an actress in a supporting role, ultimately losing to

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. In March 1960, at age nine, she narrated Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" with

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conducting in a

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broadcast of the

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's ''

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''."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wager, Alexandra American television actresses 20th-century American actresses Living people American child actresses Year of birth missing (living people)