Trivia

Alex's last name is from her Dutch heritage. Her father's parents emigrated to the US in 1950 and became American citizens. Her father is first-generation American and is a dentist in North Carolina.

She was a three-year varsity cheerleader at Cary Academy, a private prep school in Cary, North Carolina. She left Cary after her junior year when she was accepted into the High School Drama program at The University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in Winston-Salem. She graduated from high school from The University of North Carolina in 2011.

Graduated from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2011.

Older sister of Sydney ter Avest.

Alex attends The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is studying Political Science and Economics.