1. Alexandra Pelosi is a daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and Paul Pelosi.
16 Facts About Alexandra Pelosi
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In 2001, Sheila Nevins convinced Alexandra Pelosi to leave network news to work exclusively for HBO.
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Alexandra Pelosi stated that her conversations with Candy Crowley of CNN, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark inspired her to write a book.
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Pelosi's documentary Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, focusing on evangelical Christians in North America, aired on HBO in 2007.
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Alexandra Pelosi went back on the campaign trail in 2008 to document the birth of the Tea Party movement at Republican campaign events for her film Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail, which premiered on HBO on President's Day 2009.
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In 2010, Alexandra Pelosi turned away from political documentaries to make a 2010 HBO film, Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County, follows the children of the working poor in Orange County, California.
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Alexandra Pelosi was at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with her film Fall to Grace, about disgraced former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey.
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In 2015, Alexandra Pelosi returned to San Francisco to make a film about the tech boom's impact on the city.
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Alexandra Pelosi's tale is deeply personal; she grew up in San Francisco, but she has lived in New York for a long time.
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Outside the Bubble: A Roadtrip with Alexandra Pelosi aired on HBO in October 2018.
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Alexandra Pelosi has spent much of her career dissecting, with compassion, the psyche of the political right in America.
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In January 2019, Alexandra Pelosi debuted Goodbye Congress on HBO's Vice News Tonight, a film that features exit interviews with 14 retiring members of Congress, including Speaker Paul Ryan and 7 other Republicans who explain how Washington works.
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In October 2020, Alexandra Pelosi released American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself on Showtime.
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In 2023, Alexandra Pelosi directed The Insurrectionist Next Door for HBO, featuring candid interviews with those who were charged with crimes participating in January 6 United States Capitol attack.
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On October 13,2022, footage taken by Alexandra Pelosi was included within the Public hearings of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.
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Alexandra Pelosi had a second son in 2007, named Thomas Vos, after his great grandfather Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.