Alexandra Boyd is a British actress, director, screenwriter and producer. Her acting credits include
Clarissa Mason
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Tina McIntyre
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in ''
Coronation Street'' and Sarah Olmsted in Mr Holland's Opus. In recent years she has turned to screenwriting and film directing. She wrote and directed her debut feature ''Widow's Walk'' which debuted on Amazon Prime in December 2019.
On British TV she has appeared in several episodes of ''
Doctors'' and guest starred in ''
New Tricks
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'' and "
Holby City". She's been a guest on ''
Loose Women'' and is the Head of the Delegation in the 2010
John Travolta/
Luc Besson
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action film ''
From Paris with Love''. Other film credits include ''
Mr. Holland's Opus'' and James Cameron's ''
Titanic
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''. She wrote and directed her second film ''Boxer on the Wilderness ~ a'' trailer for her feature screenplay (''The Wilderness'').
Early life
Alexandra Boyd was born to a Scottish father, David Boyd,
and an English mother, Barbara Boyd (née Godbold) in
Bangor, Wales. She grew up in
Norwich
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, Norfolk, and was educated at
Norwich High School for Girls
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. She left school at 16 to study full-time at
Laine Theatre Arts
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in
Epsom
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, Surrey. In 1986, she enrolled in the post graduate acting course at
Drama Studio, London. She co-founded a theatre company that performed
Shakespeare
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and adapted classics for the London and
Edinburgh Fringe
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. The company also produced English plays for Italy. In the 1993 Italian tour, she played Eliza Doolittle in
Pygmalion.
While living in Los Angeles, Boyd studied art history, architecture and design while training as an interior designer at
UCLA
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. She studied with some of the foremost green architects in the United States and writes a blog about living a green and sustainable lifestyle called How Green Is Your Life.
Acting career
Boyd moved back to the UK in 2006 after living in the US for seventeen years. While living and working in Los Angeles she appeared in ''
Mr. Holland's Opus'' and
James Cameron's ''
Titanic
RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unit ...
''.
On American TV, Boyd made appearances on ''
Party of Five
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'', ''
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
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'' and ''
The Bernie Mac Show
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''. She has performed voices for radio commercials & animated features such as ''
The Wild Thornberries
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''. She is the voice of
Elaine Marley
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in ''
The Curse of Monkey Island
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It follows ...
'', ''
Tales of Monkey Island
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'', ''
Return to Monkey Island
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'' and the special editions of ''
The Secret of Monkey Island'' and ''
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge''.
On British TV, she played Clarissa Mason on ''
Coronation Street'' (
Granada TV
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) and
Dennis Waterman
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's love interest in an episode of ''
New Tricks
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). She has guest starred in several episodes of
''. In 2007 she produced and performed in a one-woman show at the
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in 2013. She wrote, directed and produced her debut feature film, a supernatural thriller calle
. The film stars
. The film launched on Amazon Prime Video (UK/EU) in December 2019.
She has written, directed and crowdfunded a number of short films
explores themes in her screenplay ''The Wilderness''. It screened at 15 international film festivals.
in New York where it won the award for Best Cinematography (DP Alex Veitch).
In May 2014, Boxer on the Wilderness screened in the British Independent Film Festival at the Empire Leicester Square and was nominated for Best Short Film and Best Cinematography. The film screened at the East End Film Festival at Stratford East Playhouse and nine additional international film festivals during 2014/15 including the
in London, Hollyshorts in Los Angeles, Bornshorts in Denmark, The Portland Film Festival in Portland, OR and The Chelsea Film Festival in New York. It won the Mention d'Honnuer at the "