Since 2010, American actress Sasha Alexander is best known as Maura Isles on the TV series Rizzoli & Isles. She also starred as Gretchen Witter on Dawson’s Creek and as Special Agent Kate Todd on NCIS. You could also see her in Yes Man and He’s Just Not That Into You movies. Her net worth is approximately $4 million as of 2023.
She was born as Suzana S. Drobnjaković on May 17, 1973, in Los Angeles, California. She speaks Italian and Serbian thanks to her parents. Besides acting she was also an ice skater, but couldn’t continue due to her knee injury. After college, she moved to New York and performed in summer stock and Shakespeare festivals.
Her famous character, Dr. Maura Isles on TV series Rizzoli & Isles, is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Chief Medical Examiner, who works with the Boston Police Department. Sasha’s costar, Angie Harmon, plays Boston Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli, Isle’s best friend. In real life, Sasha is best friends with actress Jessica Capshaw. All of them had NCIS to thank for a major portion of their net worth.
In 1999, Sasha married Luka Pecel but this marriage was later annulled without any legal issue. Eight years later in Geneva, she married director Edoardo Ponti, who is son of actress Sophia Loren and producer Carlo Ponti. Sasha and Edoardo have two children together, a daughter Lucia Sofia Ponti and a son Leonardo Fortunato.
