Alexandra Boyd
Director | Writer | Producer
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Alexandra Boyd
Director | Writer | Producer
Alexandra's varied career in film, television, theatre and voiceover, spans almost forty years. She grew up and went to drama school in the UK but has lived, on and off, in the US for nearly three decades. For ten years she worked as an actress in Los Angeles and began directing and writing in 2011.
Her Hollywood credits include MR HOLLAND'S OPUS with Richard Dreyfuss, THE BIG THING with Bryan Cranston, FROM PARIS WITH LOVE with John Travolta and a tiny but memorable role in James Cameron's TITANIC.
In the UK she played a series regular in CORONATION STREET and is the voice of Governor Elaine Marley in The Tales of Monkey Island. Her many theatre credits range from Shakespeare to panto and Alan Ayckbourn plays too many to mention.
Alexandra successfully crowdfunded her second film, BOXER ON THE WILDERNESS. It was nominated for Best Short Film at the East End Film Festival and went on to a successful festival run. It's a teaser for her feature screenplay THE WILDERNESS.
Her debut feature WIDOW'S WALK is set and was shot in her native Suffolk. The film won Best Cinematography at the Chelsea Film Festival in New York. She wrote, directed and produced the film which stars Miranda Raison, David Caves and BAFTA-winner and veteran stage and screen actress, Dame Virginia McKenna. Widow's Walk sold directly to Amazon and launched on the platform in December 2019.
She co-hosts TITANIC TALK with Nelson Aspen - a companion podcast to the documentary that includes actors from her documentary as well as Titanic authors and historians.
In 2020, Alexandra co-founded, Artemisia's Daughters - a non-profit organisation that aims to empower, educate and inspire the next generation of female filmmakers. She hosts a podcast called Fierce Female Filmmakers talking with the women making their way in the film and TV industry. Artemisia's Daughters shot their first short film, I Have A Story, with a group of young women in collaboration with the London based charity, The Hebe Foundation, in July 2022.
Alexandra currently lives on six acres of old growth forest on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington designing and building a house with her partner, Drew, and Willie and Millie their two brindle pugs.