Lexi Alexander
| Lexi Alexander | |
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| Born |
23 August 1974 Mannheim, West Germany |
| Other names | Lexi Mirai |
| Occupation | Director, writer, producer, actress |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Agent | Mosaic |
| Website | lexi-alexander |
Lexi Alexander (born 23 August 1974) is a German film director who also works in television. She is a former World Karate Association world champion in karate-point fighting. Alexander is well known for her advocacy for feminist issues in Hollywood.
Alexander was raised by her mother in Mannheim, Germany. Alexander is of Palestinian descent – her father was born and raised in Ramallah.
As a teenager Alexander was a sensei and some of her students were football hooligans. She would attend football matches with them but drifted away after she felt they overstepped their bounds. In 1993, at the age of 19, Alexander became world champion in both point fighting and karate. She then retired from professional fighting and moved to the US, where she landed the part of Kitana in Mortal Kombat: Live Tour.
Alexander continued to work as a stunt performer while studying acting and directing at the Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory and UCLA. The first short film she directed, Johnny Flynton, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003.
Having spent her childhood watching her family's favorite German soccer team Waldhof Mannheim, Alexander always had a fascination with the sport and its passionate fans. Inspired by these experiences, she co-wrote a screenplay with a former soccer hooligan turned writer, Dougie Brimson, about the firm of West Ham United. She directed the film of their screenplay, entitled Green Street. Released in 2005, the film was only the second in the history of the South by Southwest festival to win both the audience and the Jury awards, after Alex Holdridge's Sexless in 2003.
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