ALEXANDRA PAUL
Name: Alexandra Paul
Born: 29 July 1963 New York City
Alexandra Elizabeth Paul (born July 29, 1963) is an American actress. She is
probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television
series Baywatch from 1992 to 1997. She has appeared in over 50 movies and
television programs.
Paul was born in New York City, the daughter of Sarah, a social worker, and Mark
Paul, an investment banker. Paul is married to triathlon coach Ian Murray.
Paul's identical twin sister, Caroline Paul, was one of the first women to join
the San Francisco Fire Department and has written a memoir entitled Fighting
Fire: A Personal Story about her experiences. Her younger brother is Jonathan
Paul, a well known animal rights activist. Accused by the US federal government
as an "eco-terrorist", he is serving a sentence of four years three months for
the 1997 arson of a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Oregon, and for the
liberation of thousands of animals from testing laboratories. He was a member of
the underground Animal Liberation Front.
Apart from Baywatch, Paul is also known for her roles in movies like Christine (1983),
the sleeper American Flyers (1985), and the movie version of the classic series
Dragnet. Aside from acting, she has also hosted non-fiction tv shows, including
WE's Winning Women and southern California local environmentalism show Earth
Talk Today.
Paul also co-wrote and co-produced two documentaries: Jampacked, a documentary
regarding the world human population crisis, and The Cost of Cool: Finding
Happiness in a Materialistic World. Jampacked received a Bronze Apple Award and
first place recognition at the EarthVision Environmental Film and Video Festival.
The Cost of Cool won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.
Paul is one of only two leading Baywatch actresses without breast enlargements.
Her character was a competitive swimmer and Olympic swim coach, mirroring her
own real-life athletic interests.
She made a cameo appearance in Borat in a deleted scene parodying her Baywatch
role.
Paul is currently filming a feature length film, "Family of Four" written and
directed by John Suits and is set to debut later in 2008.
Paul is a competitive endurance athlete. She competed at the 1997 Ironman
Triathlon in Hawaii, a grueling 2.44 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2
mile marathon, which she completed in 13:18:52. In 2004, Alexandra competed in
the Bonaire 10k race, a 6 mile swim off the island of Bonaire. In 2006, she
raced in the Maui Channel Crossing, a 10 mile swim from the Hawaiian island of
Lanai to Maui.
Paul is a very dedicated environmental and political activist. In 2005, she was
named "Activist of the Year" by the ACLU of Southern California. She avidly
recycles, and will not use any products tested on animals. She has traveled to
Nicaragua with a medical aid group and to South Africa to register voters, and
has been registering voters locally every Wednesday night for the past eighteen
years. The United Nations honored her in 1997 for her environmental work.
She has often committed herself to civil disobedience to protest against some
policy or action that she believes is wrong. She has been arrested over a dozen
times at the Nevada Nuclear Test site in peaceful protests. On March 19, 2003
she was arrested for trespassing onto federal property during a protest against
the Iraq war and spent 5 days in jail. In 2006, Paul donated $250 to the Ned
Lamont campaign against Joe Lieberman, because Lieberman supports the war in
Iraq. She supports Representative Dennis Kucinich for President and has
donated $2,300 to his campaign, the max allowable.
She was arrested again on March 14, 2005 while protesting the crushing of the
environmentally friendly electric vehicles (EV), in Burbank, California. This
arrest was featured in the documentary film Who Killed The Electric Car. As part
of the protest, she parked her car in the way of the truck carrying the EV1s to
the junkyard. She personally drives an EV, the fourth one she has owned.
Paul is an active member of Plug In America, an advocacy group supporting the
development and promotion of electric cars.
Name: Alexandra Paul
Born: 29 July 1963 New York City
Alexandra Elizabeth Paul (born July 29, 1963) is an American actress. She is
probably best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television
series Baywatch from 1992 to 1997. She has appeared in over 50 movies and
television programs.
Paul was born in New York City, the daughter of Sarah, a social worker, and Mark
Paul, an investment banker. Paul is married to triathlon coach Ian Murray.
Paul's identical twin sister, Caroline Paul, was one of the first women to join
the San Francisco Fire Department and has written a memoir entitled Fighting
Fire: A Personal Story about her experiences. Her younger brother is Jonathan
Paul, a well known animal rights activist. Accused by the US federal government
as an "eco-terrorist", he is serving a sentence of four years three months for
the 1997 arson of a horse slaughterhouse in Redmond, Oregon, and for the
liberation of thousands of animals from testing laboratories. He was a member of
the underground Animal Liberation Front.
Apart from Baywatch, Paul is also known for her roles in movies like Christine (1983),
the sleeper American Flyers (1985), and the movie version of the classic series
Dragnet. Aside from acting, she has also hosted non-fiction tv shows, including
WE's Winning Women and southern California local environmentalism show Earth
Talk Today.
Paul also co-wrote and co-produced two documentaries: Jampacked, a documentary
regarding the world human population crisis, and The Cost of Cool: Finding
Happiness in a Materialistic World. Jampacked received a Bronze Apple Award and
first place recognition at the EarthVision Environmental Film and Video Festival.
The Cost of Cool won a CINE Golden Eagle Award.
Paul is one of only two leading Baywatch actresses without breast enlargements.
Her character was a competitive swimmer and Olympic swim coach, mirroring her
own real-life athletic interests.
She made a cameo appearance in Borat in a deleted scene parodying her Baywatch
role.
Paul is currently filming a feature length film, "Family of Four" written and
directed by John Suits and is set to debut later in 2008.
Paul is a competitive endurance athlete. She competed at the 1997 Ironman
Triathlon in Hawaii, a grueling 2.44 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2
mile marathon, which she completed in 13:18:52. In 2004, Alexandra competed in
the Bonaire 10k race, a 6 mile swim off the island of Bonaire. In 2006, she
raced in the Maui Channel Crossing, a 10 mile swim from the Hawaiian island of
Lanai to Maui.
Paul is a very dedicated environmental and political activist. In 2005, she was
named "Activist of the Year" by the ACLU of Southern California. She avidly
recycles, and will not use any products tested on animals. She has traveled to
Nicaragua with a medical aid group and to South Africa to register voters, and
has been registering voters locally every Wednesday night for the past eighteen
years. The United Nations honored her in 1997 for her environmental work.
She has often committed herself to civil disobedience to protest against some
policy or action that she believes is wrong. She has been arrested over a dozen
times at the Nevada Nuclear Test site in peaceful protests. On March 19, 2003
she was arrested for trespassing onto federal property during a protest against
the Iraq war and spent 5 days in jail. In 2006, Paul donated $250 to the Ned
Lamont campaign against Joe Lieberman, because Lieberman supports the war in
Iraq. She supports Representative Dennis Kucinich for President and has
donated $2,300 to his campaign, the max allowable.
She was arrested again on March 14, 2005 while protesting the crushing of the
environmentally friendly electric vehicles (EV), in Burbank, California. This
arrest was featured in the documentary film Who Killed The Electric Car. As part
of the protest, she parked her car in the way of the truck carrying the EV1s to
the junkyard. She personally drives an EV, the fourth one she has owned.
Paul is an active member of Plug In America, an advocacy group supporting the
development and promotion of electric cars.