Alexandra Paul
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Alexandra Paul (born July 29, 1963 in New York City) is an American actress. She is probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992 to 1997. She has appeared in over 50 movies and television programs.
Apart from Baywatch, Alexandra is also known for her roles in movies like Christine (1983), the sleeper American Flyers (1985), and the (1987) Dragnet spoof Dragnet. Aside from acting, she has also hosted non-fiction tv shows, including WE's Winning Women and southern California local environmentalism show Earth Talk Today.
Alexandra also co-wrote and co-produced two documentaries: Jampacked, a documentary regarding the world human population crisis, and The Cost of Cool: Finding Happiness in a Materialistic World. Jampacked received a Bronze Apple Award and first place recognition at the EarthVision Environmental Film and Video Festival. The Cost of Cool won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.
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[edit] Personal life
She's married to triathlon coach Ian Murray.
[edit] Political activism
Alexandra is a very dedicated environmental and political activist. Alexandra recycles, and will not use any products tested on animals. She has traveled to Nicaragua with a medical aid group and to South Africa to register voters, and has been registering voters locally every Wednesday night for the past ten years.
She has often committed herself to civil disobedience to protest against some policy or action which she believes is wrong. On March 19, 2003 she was arrested for trespassing onto federal property during a protest against the Iraq war and spent 5 days in jail. In 2006, Paul donated $250 to the Ned Lamont campaign against Joe Lieberman, because Lieberman supports the war in Iraq [1].
She was arrested again on March 15, 2005, protesting the crushing of the environmentally-friendly electric vehicles (EV), in Burbank, California. This arrest was featured in the documentary film "Who Killed The Electric Car". As part of the protest, she parked her car in the way of the truck carrying the EV1s to the junkyard. She personally drives around in an EV, the fourth one she has owned.
Paul is an active member of Plug In America, an advocacy group supporting the development and promotion of electric cars.
[edit] Trivia
- Paul is a competitive endurance athlete. She competed at the 1997 Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii, a grueling 2.44 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon, which she completed in 13:18:52. In 2004, Alexandra competed in the Bonaire 10k race, a 6 mile swim off the island of Bonaire. In 2006, she raced in the Maui Channel Crossing, a 10 mile swim from the Hawaaian island of Lanai to Maui.
- Alexandra's identical twin sister, Caroline Paul, was one of the first women to join the San Francisco Fire Department and has written a memoir entitled Fighting Fire: A Personal Story about her experiences.
- Her younger brother is animals rights activist Jonathan Paul, best known for posing as a fur buyer to get video footage of the treatment and killing of minks.
- Paul is one of only two leading Baywatch actresses without breast enlargements.
- She is a certified Emergency Medical Technician.
- Height: 5'10"
