Maev Alexander

Maev Alexander, also Maeve Alexander (born Maev Alexandra Reid McConnell on 3 February 1948) is a Scottish television and stage actress. Aside from her numerous stage appearances including Cleopatra and in The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre in London, she is perhaps best known for playing the assistant Christine Russell in the early 1970s Scottish TV series Sutherland's Law, as Janet Campbell in the 18th century set The New Road, and as WPC Sandra Williams in the British police drama The Gentle Touch (1981-2). She is married to Simon Dunmore, a notable theatre director and author on acting.

Alexander was born in Glasgow in 1948. She began her television career in 1966, playing three roles in This Man Craig. She followed this with a role as Madge in an episode of the BBC production, The Revenue Men. In 1970, she starred in an episode of another BBC television production The Borderers opposite Michael Gambon and Iain Cuthbertson, set in a village on the Scottish-English border in the Tudor period.

In 1972 she made an appearance in the ITV legal drama The Main Chance, and began portraying the character of Christine Russell in the Scottish TV film production Sutherland's Law, and starred in nine episodes of the television series the following year opposite Don McKillop. Her performance was praised; The Spectator said "The only moment of pleasure in this long fifty minutes was the occasional sight of Maev Alexander as Sutherland's plump, pretty clerk, but there were long and arid intervals between her appearance." In 1973, Alexander also had a leading role as Janet Campbell in the 19th century set The New Road, opposite David Ashton and John Grieve.

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