Alexandra Boyd

Alexandra Boyd is a British actress, writer and filmmaker. Her acting credits include Clarissa Mason in Coronation Street and Sarah Olmsted in Mr Holland's Opus. In recent years she's turned to screenwriting and film directing. Her debut feature is Widow's Walk. Alexandra wrote the screenplay and directed the film in February and March of 2017.

On British TV she has appeared in several episodes of Doctors and guest starred in New Tricks 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 action film From Paris with Love. Other film roles include Mr. Holland's Opus and First Class Woman in James Cameron's Titanic. She wrote and directed her second film Boxer on the Wilderness ~ a trailer for her feature screenplay (The Wilderness).

Alexandra was born in 1962 to a Scottish father, David Boyd, and an English mother, Barbara Boyd (nee Godbold) in Bangor, Wales. She grew up in Norwich, Norfolk, and was educated at Norwich High School for Girls. She left school at 16 to study full-time at Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom, Surrey. In 1986 she enrolled in the post graduate acting course at Drama Studio, London. She co-founded a theatre company that performed Shakespeare and adapted classics for the London and Edinburgh Fringe. The company also produced English plays for Italy. In the 1993 Italian tour Alexandra played Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion.

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