Since high school, I have only done one play. I have mused on perhaps doing a one woman show, but for now I am very happy doing film and television! Thank you for thinking I would be good onstage. I hope you can attend when I do hit the boards!

Thank you for writing,

Alexandra

I wasn’t on Melrose Place long enough to have any input into my character. On Baywatch, the producers were very respectful of opinions. I didn’t tell them how I wanted my story line to go, but they did let me develop my character (and I even chose the name Stephanie Holden). It was a time in my life that I wanted to play a woman that was less “good girl next door” and more of an assertive woman, and they let me do that. I was able to request a non-Caucasian boyfriend for an episode (Stephanie was lucky to have a lot of boyfriends, but my favorite was Mitch). When they had Stephanie in a scene at Marine World, I asked to be taken out of it because it hurts me to be around animals (or fish) in captivity. When I told the producers that I wanted to leave Baywatch, they discussed with me how Stephanie should leave the show. I wanted Stephanie to die (more dramatic, better montage), but they were at first reluctant because we had a large audience of young kids that watched Baywatch, and it had been upsetting for that demographic when a character in the first season was killed by a shark. I wanted her to die heroically (more dramatic, better montage) and they agreed that would be less violent than the shark attack, so in the end Stephanie died saving a little girl from a falling mast. I also helped pick a lot of the shots for the very moving funeral montage.

I am not a writer, so I do not interfere too much with the writing, because I expect the writer not to interfere with my acting!

Alexandra

Ian and I write down our New Year’s Resolutions together. We have 8 categories (Love, Career, Money, Sports, Sex, Health, Family, Personal) and we write down our goals in each. This year, among others, I have pledged to speak to my brother Jonathan at least once a week, improve my Spanish, boost my immune system through acupuncture, put together a photo album of the photos my dad (who died in 2004) left behind, and do a 10 mile ocean swim. So far I have begun a Spanish class, chatted with Jonathan several times, and started arranging my dad’s photos. I have found the acupuncturist but not yet made an appointment, and I havent yet started to train for the 10 mile swim because I have to find the race first!

I hope that your 2005 is wonderful and that you find little ways to make your life more fulfilling also. Alexandra