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Who is Alex Dunphy?
Alexandra "Alex" Dunphy (Ariel Winter) begins as the 13-year-old daughter of Claire and Phil, and also the most erudite and intelligent of the three siblings. She is very bright and cares much more about her studies than friends/social life and boys. As the middle child to a shallow big sister and a goofy younger brother, she enjoys messing with them when they are rude to her, which is fairly often. Often taking advantage of their naïveté by fooling them into believing unrealistic things, she at one time convinced Haley and Luke that they could charge electronics by rubbing the battery on their heads (Haley) and putting it in their mouths (Luke). She, as a stereotypical precocious kid, displays a sense of superiority because of her erudition, constantly putting her accomplishments on display and demanding recognition for them. An overachiever, she plays the cello and practices lacrosse; she chose to play the cello because she would have a better chance at being in a university orchestra than if she played the violin, since cellos are more in demand. While she has sometimes felt isolated from her peers (once sadly telling her parents "I have no friends"), she has a group of nerdy "fans" at school who idolize her. Haley sincerely tells her at one point she is smart and attractive in a successful effort to get Alex to give a light-hearted graduation speech instead of a harsh one (it worked well enough that Alex was invited to a post-ceremony party by her classmates). At the beginning of season 3, she was in a long-distance relationship with a boy she met in Wyoming, but she did go to her prom with a classmate who everyone but himself knows is gay. It has been established recently in the episode "Tableau Vivant" that Alex is a light sleeper, as she was surprisingly energetic when staying awake nearly a whole night thinking about her upcoming art project. It was revealed in the episode "Heart Broken" that Alex faints every time she sees blood.

Ariel Winter
Ariel Winter Workman (born January 28, 1998), known in television shows and films as, Ariel Winter, is an American teen actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Alex Dunphy in the TV series Modern Family, for which she has won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along with the rest of the show's cast.

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love the title

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Sweet Embrace

Great, the title is wonderful

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You're welcome everyone and thanks to Theresa for the thread title idea.

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The OP is so pretty

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LOL on Phil hugging and consoling Alex because she was the one who wouldn't take the news about Claire very well. And Alex had this "huh" face all the time.

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Alex looked so confused. Phil just kept consoling her

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She looked so cute though. I miss how Ariel looked like back in S1.

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yes

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I kinda loved seeing Phil and Alex getting cuddly

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Me too. We don't get much of it

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True. I liked when he took her shopping in an older episode

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we need more of that. more Phil and Alex bonding time

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Yes I miss that too.