Alexandra Hay
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Born | July 24, 1944 Los Angeles, California |
Died | October 11, 1993 Los Angeles, California |
Alexandra Hay (July 24, 1944 – October 11, 1993) was a character actress of the 1960s and 1970s. She was a native of Los Angeles, California, and graduated from Arroyo High School in El Monte.
Blonde and elegant-looking, Hay's first credited role was in an episode of The Monkees, as a girl pursued by Davy Jones. She next had small roles in the movies Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Spencer Tracy's final film) and The Ambushers (starring Dean Martin as secret agent Matt Helm).
She costarred in Otto Preminger's 1968 film Skidoo, as a young girl who discovers her car-dealer father (Jackie Gleason) is actually a onetime Mafia assassin. John Phillip Law played Stash, her hippie boyfriend. She and Law were re-teamed later, in 1971's The Love Machine, based on a Jacqueline Susann novel.
Hay had television roles in episodes of Mission: Impossible, Love, American Style, Dan August, Kojak, The Streets of San Francisco, and Police Story. Later movies included 1000 Convicts and a Woman, That Girl from Boston, and The One Man Jury. She also appeared in a television movie, The F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One.
Hay died in 1993, of arteriosclerotic heart disease. She was cremated, with her ashes scattered off the coast of Marina Del Ray, California.