Alexandra (Nikita character)

Alex Udinov
Nikita character
Lyndsy Fonseca as Alexandra Udinov
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"Cancelled"
Created by	Craig Silverstein
Portrayed by	Lyndsy Fonseca Eliana Jones (flashbacks)
Information
Full name	Alexandra Udinov
Nickname(s)	Alex Ms Udinov Little Miss Udinov Little Alex Little Nikita
Aliases	Alexandra Jones Jillian McMillan Diane Lange Alex Winslow Sasha
Gender	Female
Occupation	Mercenary
Significant other(s)	Owen Elliot/Sam Matthews (love interest) Ronnie (deceased) Thom (deceased) Nathan Colville (ex-boyfriend) Sean Pierce (deceased)
Relatives	Nikolai Udinov (father; deceased) Katya Udinov (mother) Sergei Semak (stepfather; deceased)
Nationality	Russian

Alexandra "Alex" Udinov is one of the main characters on the television series Nikita, portrayed by Lyndsy Fonseca. Many fans of "Team Nikita" (consisting of Nikita, Michael, Birkhoff, Sean, Ryan, and Owen) consider Alex as the baby of the "family," this is because Alex, being the youngest of the group, when her walls are down, can behave childlike and callow.

Alex is the daughter of the late Russian oligarch Nikolai Udinov and his wife who were murdered by Division, on orders of Sergei Semak, when Alex was a child. Udinov owned the billion-dollar company Zetrov, of which Alex was the sole heir. Alex was to inherit the Zetrov company, which flashbacks show her as never really wanting in the first place. She was saved by Nikita, after Nikita killed her father, as she watched the rest of her family perish in a fire. Nikita was powerless to save Alex from anything else as she had to return to Division, and she gave Alex to one of Udinov's associates for safe-keeping. Instead, Alex was sold into sex slavery by her father's associate since he needed money and thought no one would recognize her if he did.

To keep her from fighting against them, the slavers kept Alex high and eventually forced her to become a drug addict. She escaped the slavers by herself, though she remained a user and was shown in flashbacks to be living as a junkie, living from hit to hit. Alex brings this part of her past up to Amanda, saying that the slavers "had the decency to keep [her] high" as they held her captive, comparing this to Division.

After Nikita escapes Division, she finds Alex again and rescues her before she is about to get raped and forces her to get clean, much to Alex's irritation. It is revealed in a flashback that it was Alex's idea to infiltrate Division, and that if Alex hadn't tried to kill herself in front of Nikita, Nikita would never have told Alex the truth about Division. After Nikita succeeds in helping Alex past the worst part of her withdrawal, she starts to train her both mentally and physically to stay one step ahead of Division once she is inserted there. Nikita makes it clear to Alex that once she gets in, she will be on her own and Nikita won't be able to be there if something goes wrong.

Alex also suffers panic attacks when certain things trigger somewhat suppressed memories of her past, such as being under a car (reminds her of being under a bed as she watched her family die). Alex was shown to also have nightmares about her deceased family, often speaking Russian and screaming for her father. Amanda and Nikita also don't allow Alex to drink alcohol, because if she were she would go back to doing drugs.

At the beginning of season one, Alex was arrested while robbing a drug store with her abusive boyfriend Ronnie; Ronnie shoots the store owner and runs away as the police arrive, leaving Alex, covered in blood, with the stolen drugs. Alex was blamed for the murder and sent to prison – soon after; Alex wakes up in Division, officially having committed suicide in prison, and meets with Michael, who brings her into Division as a new recruit.