Alexandra Boyd
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Alexandra Boyd is a British actress, who is best known for playing Clarissa Mason in Coronation Street. On British TV Alexandra has also appeared in two episodes of Doctors was Denis Waterman's love interest in New Tricks and has also appeared in Holby City. She has been a guest on Loose Women and plays the Head of the Delegation in the 2010 John Travolta/Luc Besson action movie From Paris with Love. Her other movie roles include Sarah Olmstead in Mr. Holland's Opus and First Class Woman in James Cameron's Titanic.
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[edit] Early life
Alexandra was born to a Scottish father and English mother in Bangor, Wales. She grew up in Norwich, Norfolk and went to Norwich High School for Girls. She left school at 16 to study full time at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, Surrey. Alexandra wanted a more formal actor's training so in 1986 she enrolled in the post graduate acting course at Drama Studio, London. In 1987 she co-founded a theatre company with director Maggi Law (Jude Law's mother). The company performed Shakespeare and adapted classics for the London and Edinburgh fringe. They also produced English plays for several tours of Italy. In the 1993 tour Alexandra played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. Jude played Freddie Eynsford Hill.
[edit] Career
Alexandra currently lives in London. She moved back to the UK in 2006 after living in the USA for many years. In Los Angeles she appeared in films such as Mr Holland’s Opus and Titanic.
On American TV Alexandra made appearances on Party Of Five, Sabrina The Teenage Witch and The Bernie Mac Show. She has performed voices for radio commercials & animated features such as The Wild Thornberries and is the voice of Elaine Marley in The Curse of Monkey Island, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, Tales of Monkey Island, and Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge. On UK TV, she played Clarissa Mason on Coronation Street (Granada TV) in the summer of 2008 and in 2009 played Dennis Waterman's American love interest in an episode of New Tricks (BBC). She has guest starred in BBC1's Doctors and Holby City.
Her theatre credits range from Shakespeare to panto; many Alan Ayckbourn plays; Rita in Educating Rita and Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. In 2007 she performed in a one woman show (Stork Bite) at [The Hackney Empire]. In 2009 she appeared in Three S**t Hot Shorts by Dean Stalham at The Camden Fringe Festival.
In November 2009 she co-starred with Danny Webb in VISITING HOURS, a short film shot at Shepperton Studios, written for her and directed by Steve Hughes. The movie has played at the Milan International Film Festival 2010 and The Los Angeles Short Film Festival 2010 and ENCOUNTERS 2010 in Bristol.
She plays the Chief of Delegation in the Luc Beeson (Europacorp) movie From Paris With Love, with John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The movie was directed by Pierre Morel and written and produced by Luc Besson.
2011 Alexandra starred in the Middle Ground Theatre production of COLUMBO with fellow Coronation Street cast member, Brian Capron. She stars opposite Dominic Brunt and Mark Charnock in the EMMERDALE CHRISTMAS DVD (2011) The DVD is released on November 14th and is called Paddy and Marlon's Big Night Out. She plays Audrey in Seven Lucky Gods a thriller and independent feature film adapted from the book The Nick of Time by Frances King and directed by Jamil Dehlavi.
[edit] Hydroderm
In the summer of 2010, Alexandra was invited to become the UK face of the anti-aging serum Hydroderm. She shot the infomercial in Hollywood CA and it can now be seen on the V Shopping Channel. She writes about her experiences with the anti wrinkle serum in a blog. Click here to read her updates.
[edit] Directing
In 2011 Alexandra directed her first film about Henry Mallin and Major Arthur Villiers. The six minute short has been used as a promotional tool for a full length feature called THE WILDERNESS It is a true story is based on the Eton Manor Boys Club founded by Villiers in the East End in the early part of the 20th century. Mallin trained there as a boxer and went on to win two Olympic Gold medals (1920/24). Alexandra has written the screenplay and is attached to direct in 2012. She is co-founder and director of WILDERNESS PRODUCTIONS with Jon Pettigrew who will produce the film.
She has also written a 15 minute short film (Happy Now) The film is set in 1961 in Wales and is about her mother who gave birth to twins. The film is in pre-production and will shoot early 2011. Alexandra will direct the film, Maddy Lewis (Easy Tiger Productions) will produce and the project is executive produced by Jon Pettigrew.
[edit] Eco Interior Design
While living in Los Angeles Alexandra trained as an interior designer at UCLA. She studied with some of the foremost green architects in the United States. She writes a blog about living a green and sustainable lifestyle called How Green Is Your Life.
