Early Life
Alex Rice is a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) born in 1972 in Kahnawake, Quebec, and is proud of her Mohawk heritage. She is also a member of the Rice family of Kahnawake, having descended from Edmund Rice an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony. Though she was born on the Kahnawake reserve in Canada, Rice spend the majority of her childhood in Brooklyn, New York among a community of Mohawk ironworkers, where she trained to become a professional dancer at local dance studios and developed a passion for acting when she landed a part in an educational video produced at her grammar school. She attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help High School in Brooklyn. Rice and her mother Melody Rice moved back to Kanawake in 1990 after the death of her father and her graduation from high school. She attended Dawson College and Concordia University, in Montreal, where she earned a degree in library science.
Read more about this topic: Alex Rice
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“It was common practice for me to take my children with me whenever I went shopping, out for a walk in a white neighborhood, or just felt like going about in a white world. The reason was simple enough: if a black man is alone or with other black men, he is a threat to whites. But if he is with children, then he is harmless, adorable.”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
“But that beginning was wiped out in fear
The day I swung suspended with the grapes,
And was come after like Eurydice
And brought down safely from the upper regions;
And the life I live now’s an extra life
I can waste as I please on whom I please.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)