Alexandra Elizabeth Paul was born on July 29,1963 and is an American actress, activist, health coach, and former model.
36 Facts About Alexandra Paul
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Alexandra Paul has performed in a total of over 100 movies and television programs.
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Alexandra Paul was born in New York City to Sarah, a social worker from England, and Mark Alexandra Paul, an American investment banker.
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Alexandra Paul was raised alongside her identical twin sister, Caroline, and younger brother, Jonathan, in the rural town of Cornwall, Connecticut.
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Alexandra Paul attended the Cornwall Consolidated School, and the Groton School in Massachusetts.
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At ages 17 and 18, Alexandra Paul underwent two major abdominal operations to remove choledochal cysts, which left her with a scar spanning from her sternum to her navel.
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Alexandra Paul was accepted into Stanford University, but chose not to attend so that she could focus on an acting career.
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Alexandra Paul worked prominently in television from the late 1980s onward, perhaps most recognizable in her starring role on Baywatch, from 1992 to 1997.
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Alexandra Paul began her career working as a model in New York City, and later moved to Los Angeles when she decided to pursue a career in acting.
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Alexandra Paul then landed a leading role in John Carpenter's horror film Christine, opposite Keith Gordon, followed by a supporting role in the comedy Just the Way You Are.
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Alexandra Paul later appeared in the sport drama American Flyers with Kevin Costner, 8 Million Ways to Die, and the comedy Dragnet, opposite Tom Hanks and Dan Aykroyd.
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Alexandra Paul has starred in the Fox TV series Fire Company 132 and appeared in the last eight episodes of Melrose Place.
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Alexandra Paul hosted non-fiction TV shows, including WE's Winning Women and a southern California local environmentalism show, Earth Talk Today.
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Alexandra Paul made a cameo appearance with Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan in a deleted scene parodying her Baywatch role.
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Alexandra Paul did a cameo in the comedy spoofs Spy Hard and Sharknado: The 4th Awakens.
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In 2015, Alexandra Paul won Indie Series' Best Supporting Actress in a comedy webseries.
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Alexandra Paul co-wrote and co-produced two documentaries: Jampacked, a documentary on the world population crisis, and The Cost of Cool: Finding Happiness in a Materialistic World.
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Alexandra Paul produced eight PSAs on the benefits of driving electric vehicles for the non-profit Plug In America.
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In 2020 Alexandra Paul appeared in 4 projects, and in 2022 she starred in the independent films Tethered and Baby Steps.
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Alexandra Paul became a vegetarian at age fourteen after reading the book Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe, and became a vegan in 2010.
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Alexandra Paul has swum the 11 mile Fiji Swim, the 12.5 mile Swim Around Key West and the 2014 Reto Acapulco 14 mile swim, among others.
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In 2015, Alexandra Paul became a certified health coach and has her own wellness coaching business.
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Alexandra Paul is an outspoken animal rights, environmental, peace and gay rights activist.
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Alexandra Paul has been arrested for civil disobedience over a dozen times at the Nevada Test Site between 1987 and 2000.
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Alexandra Paul was arrested twice in 2003 for civil disobedience protesting the Iraq War and spent five days in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center after refusing to pay the $50 fine.
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Alexandra Paul's younger brother, Jonathan, is an animal rights activist, who served 51 months in prison for his role in the arson of a slaughterhouse.
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Alexandra Paul has traveled to Nicaragua with Operation USA and to South Africa to register voters.
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Alexandra Paul volunteered in Sierra Leone with the non profit Population Media Center.
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In 2006, Alexandra Paul donated $250 to the Ned Lamont campaign against Joe Lieberman, because Lieberman supported the war in Iraq.
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Alexandra Paul was an active member for 9 years of the Santa Monica, CA chapter of Food Not Bombs, where she picked up donations, cooked, and served hot vegan meals to the homeless community every Thursday evening.
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Alexandra Paul registered voters sitting at a card table on LA street corners for 2 hours a week from 1989 to 2010 with The First Vote.
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Alexandra Paul received the 2014 Vegan of the Year by Last Chance for Animals, and in 2007 received a United Nations Environment Programme honor for her contribution to overpopulation issues.
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In 2016, Alexandra Paul joined Direct Action Everywhere in an open rescue of several pigs from a factory farm.
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In 2017, Alexandra Paul joined a sit-in at an Oakland, California slaughterhouse and was arrested.
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In 2018, Alexandra Paul was arrested for a civil disobedience action at Sunrise Chicken Farm.
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In September, 2021, Alexandra Paul rescued a chicken outside a Foster Farms slaughterhouse and went on trial on March 7,2023 in Merced, CA.