About Alexandra Paul

Alexandra has appeared in over 100 feature films and television programs, usually as the first or second female lead. She is internationally recognized for her 5-year starring role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the tv series Baywatch. 

In 2019, Alexandra  worked on 3 films: Escaping My Stalker, Pink Skies Ahead and The Estate, has spoken at George Washington University’s Human Overpopulation Forum,  Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Glendale Community College on the human overpopulation issue.  

Alexandra was mostly out of work and in a mask in 2020, but she started off 2021 starring in the film Tethered and followed that up with Baby Steps, a sequel to her 2018 movie Say Yes. Baby Steps was released in 2023.

Alexandra co-hosts a weekly podcast, Switch4Good  which is heard worldwide and has 5 million downloads and YouTube views.  It was awarded Mercy for Animals’ Best Vegan Podcast in 2024. 

Acting Career Overview

Alexandra Paul began her acting career at age 18 starring in the highly rated telefilm Paper Dolls . She then starred in the Warner Bros. motion picture American Flyers opposite Kevin Costner, Dragnet opposite Tom Hanks & Dan Ackroyd, Eight Million Ways to Die opposite Jeff Bridges, Stephen King’s Christine, Spyhard with Leslie Nielsen and two films opposite Pierce Brosnan.

You can just go to her resume , but here is an overview of her projects: Alexandra has starred in 15 movies for Lifetime and shot several more in supporting roles. She has played a gay woman in 4 films, which makes her proud as her identical twin sister is gay.  She has been in some quirky, terrible movies like Sharknado 4 which were a ton of fun to film.   In 2016, Alexandra  won an Indie Series award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy for her work in the web series Mentor. She has also received a nomination in the same category at LA Webfest.  Yes, that was Alexandra playing Duck’s wife  in the Emmy nominated series, Mad Men, and in the last 8 episodes of the original Melrose Place.  Alexandra loves playing mothers even though she has no kids of her own, and is still in touch with several of the actors  to whom she has played Mom.  Alexandra is also interviewed and seen getting arrested in the highly acclaimed, award winning documentary Who Killed the Electric Car, now out on DVD and a top ten documentary on Netflix. She has had the good fortune to play opposite many wonderful actors.  (She adores David Hasselhoff, in case you are wondering). 

For 4 years, Alexandra hosted the extreme sports series Wild Waters on the Outdoor Life Network, in addition to hosting the WE network series Winning Women for two seasons. She also hosted 150 episodes of the environmental cable access talk show EarthTalk Today.

In 1997, Alexandra represented the gym chain Bally Total Fitness. In 2011, she was a spokesperson for the Volt, a plug in car by Chevrolet.  She now drives a Chevy Bolt.  

Personal Life

Alexandra was honored by the ACLU of Southern California as their 2005 Activist of the Year for her long history of fighting for the environment, voting rights and peace issues. in 2014, Last Chance for Animals named her and her brother Jonathan as Vegans of the Year. In 1997, the United Nations commended Alexandra for her work on human overpopulation. In 1999, she won the International Green Cross award. She walked across America for over five weeks on The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, and has been arrested over a dozen times for protesting at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. She was also arrested during a peaceful 1990 sit-in for AIDS patients to access fast tracked pharmaceutical drugs, and protecting electric cars from being crushed.  She has been arrested 5 times for peacefully protesting animals exploitation.  She has been involved  open rescues of other farm animals with the non profit Direct Action Everywhere.  

Alexandra has been driving electric cars since 1990. She is a vegan and will not use products tested on animals. She has traveled to Nicaragua with a medical aid group, to Lousiana to help animals after Hurricane Katrina,  to South Africa to register voters and to Sierra Leone to promote family planning. She volunteered with Food Not Bombs every Wednesday and Thursday for 8 years  by picking up food donations and cooking vegan meals for over 100 people. A mediocre cook, Alexandra’s specialty in the kitchen is washing the dishes without wasting water, and overseeing food composting and recycling.  She then cooked and served the houseless every Monday night for 3 years with her friends, in a group called Peace & Love.  

Alexandra was  a certified EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) for 23 years, registered voters once a week for 18  years.  She also speaks very good French because she lived in Paris as a child. 

A dedicated and accomplished athlete as well, in 1997, Alexandra trained for the World Ironman Championship in Hawaii (a grueling 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon), which she completed in 13:18:52.  In 2012, Alexandra swam around Key West, a 12.5 mile race. In 2014, she swam the 22 km Reto Acapulco off the coast of Mexico. 

 Alexandra wrote, produced and hosted Jam-packed, an educational film broadcast on PBS about the human overpopulation crisis, which has won several environmental awards. She followed that up with The Cost of Cool- Finding Happiness in a Materialistic World, which won a CineEagle award. In 1986, she (along with producer / manager Daniel Sladek) founded Young Artists United, a successful non-profit organization dedicated to helping teenagers in need. Alexandra has also personally spoken, classroom-by-classroom, to over six thousand Los Angeles teenagers on the issue of human overpopulation and continues to speak at universities and conferences on the issue.  In 2023, she spoke to classes at  San Diego State University and Climate Science & Policy students at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 

Alexandra has a TEDx talk on the benefits of a one child family which currently has 678,000 views. 

In 2000, Alexandra and her identical twin sister Caroline were the recipients of the Christopher Street West Rainbow Award for their ongoing support of gay and lesbian rights. 

Other info: 

• In 2003, Alexandra spent 5 days in federal jail for protesting the war in Iraq.
• In 2004, Alexandra competed in a 6.2-mile ocean swim off the coast of Bonaire, in the Dutch Antilles.
• In March 2005 she captured worldwide media attention for her arrest during a protest to save some of the last remaining GM EV1 electric cars from destruction.
• In September, 2006, Alexandra swam 10 miles in the Maui Channel Swim, an ocean swim race from the island of Lanai to the island of Maui.
• In August, 2009, Alexandra raced an 11 mile ocean swim race from Denarau Island to Beachcomber Island in Fiji.
•  In 2016, Alexandra rescued with the animal rights group DxE several sick pigs from a factory farm.
• In 2017, Alexandra was arrested  for a sit in at a slaughterhouse.  She also rescued Roselynn the calf from a factory farm. 
• In 2018, Alexandra was arrested after rescuing a chicken from a factory farm.  
• In 2019, Alexandra was arrested during a protest at a duck farm and spent 2 days at the Sonoma, CA county jail.  Alexandra also was arrested at a San Francisco sit in for an animal bill of rights in October, 2019. 
• In 2020, Alexandra was arrested attempting to rescue a pig from a slaughterhouse.  
• In 2021, Alexandra rescued a chicken from a slaughterhouse truck.  She went to court in Merced, CA in March, 2023 and was acquitted after a 9 day trial.

Alexandra has been in a love affair with triathlon coach Ian Murray since 1995. Ian & Alexandra were married in Malibu in 2000, and they live with Sam & Simon, 2 amazing cats.