About Alexandra Paul

Alexandra is an American actress with dual British citizenship.  She 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. 

Alexandra co-hosted (2019-2025) the podcast Switch4Good, which is heard worldwide and has millions of downloads and YouTube views.  It was awarded Mercy for Animals’ Best Vegan Podcast in 2024. 

In 2025, Alexandra won the LA Press Club’s National Entertainment & Journalism Award for Celebrity Investigative Reporting.  She was nominated for her first person account published in The Ankler titled: Stalked: a Baywatch Star’s 13 Year Nightmare.

In 2025, Alexandra starred in the short film Redlining.

Backing up a bit, in 2021 Alexandra starred 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.  

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.  

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 imdb resume (or here on this site) 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.   She was cut out of Borat but can be seen in the DVD extras apparently.  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 for protecting electric cars from being crushed.  She has been arrested 5 times for peacefully protesting animal exploitation.  She has been involved in  open rescues of  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.  For 8 years (and through COVID), she volunteered with Food Not Bombs every Wednesday and Thursday 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 homeless in West LA 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, and registered voters once a week for 18  years.  She also speaks very good French because she lived in Paris as a child. 

As an athlete, in 1997 Alexandra completed the World Ironman Championship in Hawaii (a grueling 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon) in 13:18:52.  In 2012, Alexandra swam around Key West, a 12.5 mile race. In 2014, she swam the 22 km (14 miles)  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 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 busy non-profit organization dedicated to helping teenagers in need. Alexandra has also 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 over 700,000 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: 

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 their amazing cats Sam & Simon on the west coast of the United States.   

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