Lyndsy Fonseca

Acting

Lyndsy Fonseca

Born 1987-01-07 · Oakland - California - USA

Lyndsy Marie Fonseca (born January 7, 1987) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Colleen Carlton on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, and Alexandra "Alex" Udinov on The CW show Nikita. She was discovered by a talent manager in San Francisco. She then relocated to Los Angeles for her first pilot season at age 13, in the middle of the school year. The following year, she landed her breakthrough role, playing Colleen Carlton on The Young and the Restless with a three-year contract. In she had a recurring role as Ted Mosby's future daughter on How I Met Your Mother and as Donna on HBO's Big Love. She starred in the 2005 Hallmark TV film Ordinary Miracles, as a 16-year-old juvenile delinquent who goes to live with a judge (Jaclyn Smith).In fall 2007, she played Dawn in the film Remember the Daze. She joined the cast of ABC's Desperate Housewives as the daughter of Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delany), a character moving onto Wisteria Lane. In 2008, she was nominated at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Desperate Housewives (2004), shared with the cast. She played Katie Deauxma in the 2010 superhero film Kick-Ass, which also featured her Nikita co-star Xander Berkeley in the cast. She appeared in three more films in 2010, including Hot Tub Time Machine, and she was cast as new recruit Alex on the CW's Nikita. She was listed at #62 in the 2010 Maxim Hot 100 and #89 in the 2011 list.

Acting credits

Kick-Ass poster
7.1

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.

Kick-Ass

2010

Kick-Ass 2 poster
6.4

After Kick-Ass' insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the blade-wielding Hit-Girl can prevent their annihilation.

Kick-Ass 2

2013

Hot Tub Time Machine poster
6.0

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Nick is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

Hot Tub Time Machine

2010

The Escort poster
6.0

Desperate for a good story, a sex-addicted journalist throws himself into the world of high-class escorts when he starts following a Stanford-educated prostitute.

The Escort

2015

The Ward poster
5.7

Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.

The Ward

2010

Spinning Gold poster
5.5

A biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records.

Spinning Gold

2023

Curvature poster
4.9

Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?

Curvature

2017

Five poster
7.1

An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

Five

2011

Dark Mind poster
7.7

Paul Lionetti is a child prodigy whose genius becomes both his greatest gift and his ultimate curse. Celebrated in his youth for groundbreaking inventions, Paul's masterpiece--an enigmatic device known as "the cube"--promised to change the world. But in a world driven by greed and shadowed by conspiracy, brilliance is a dangerous currency.

Dark Mind

2006

Ordinary Miracles poster
6.5

A tough judge takes in a foster child with nowhere to go. Attempts to reunite child with long lost father end badly with the rebellious child running away.

Ordinary Miracles

2005

Don't Move poster
NR

A church group's annual retreat turns deadly when they wander into the wrong part of the Ozark wilderness, and something starts picking them off one by one. Suspicion falls on Ricky, the troublemaker of the group. But the real threat is far worse. Deep in the forest, wrapped in a labyrinth of webs, the group is pursued by a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that hunts by vibration. When every step could be their last, they only have one choice: Don't Move. It's up to Megan to hold what's left of the group together and get them out alive.

Don't Move

2026

Single on the 25th poster
7.7

After Nell’s family cancels holiday plans at the last minute, she decides to spend the week of Christmas having fun on her own — and crosses paths with her neighbor, who is “happily unattached.”

Single on the 25th

2025

Next Stop, Christmas poster
6.4

Angie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in the past. With the advice of the train's enigmatic conductor, Angie has the chance to revisit that Christmas and learn what — and who — is truly important to her.

Next Stop, Christmas

2021

Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life poster
3.8

A high school kid develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.

Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life

2005

Remember the Daze poster
4.9

During the summer of 1999, a group of teenagers, through interconnected narratives, live through their last day of high school and prepare for the future. Holly, once the new girl in school, does whatever it takes to remain popular. Dawn, who is secretly a lesbian, battles drugs. Tori is the valedictorian of her class, but, on the eve of graduation, she decides to experiment with drugs for the first time.

Remember the Daze

2008

The Love Heist poster
6.5

Celebrity stylist Kayli must team up with hotel security chief Mills to track down an iconic piece of fashion history after it goes missing on her watch before the Chicago Costume Gala.

The Love Heist

2026

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NR

Third installment of Hallmark's "Holliday Touchdown" franchise. plot TBA.

Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story

2026

Where Are You, Christmas? poster
6.3

After Addy wishes for a year without Christmas, she wakes up in a black and white world and works with the town mechanic to restore Christmas.

Where Are You, Christmas?

2023

The World's Biggest Asshole poster
NR

When Coleman F. Sweeney, a self-centered, uncaring, aggravating, nihilistic and slightly sadistic man, suddenly dies, his good side finally shows to everyone's surprise.

The World's Biggest Asshole

2016

Holiday Crashers poster
6.5

Best friends Toni and Bri, working at a card print shop, decide to crash the amazing Christmas parties from some of the shop's confidential invitations for a bit of harmless fun. Harmless that is, until Toni is mistaken for a lawyer and they get whisked away to a fancy corporate Christmas retreat in the snowy Vermont mountains by handsome business mogul.

Holiday Crashers

2024

The Girl Who Wasn't Dead poster
5.4

Erica vanishes, believed a victim of a serial killer, but emerges at her murder trial 3 years later, having run away to live secretly with her older boyfriend near her mother's home, banned from seeing him.

The Girl Who Wasn't Dead

2024

You Can't Take My Daughter poster
7.3

A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.

You Can't Take My Daughter

2020

Down Dog poster
4.3

A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A satirical look at LA's yoga culture.

Down Dog

2015

North to Home poster
6.9

Suzanne McBride is excited to spend her birthday with her family. It will be the first time that her three adopted daughters will be together in years. This seems like a great time for a family reunion, but the sisters are each wrestling with unique challenges that threaten to derail this special occasion.

North to Home

2022