Alexandra Paul
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The star of over 70 feature films and television programs, in 2009 Alexandra Paul starred in THE BOY SHE MET ONLINE, and co-starred in THE FRANKENSTEIN BROTHERS. In 2008, she starred in four films, co-starred in a fifth, and guest starred in the Emmy nominated series MAD MEN. Alexandra is also featured in the award winning documentary WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR.

Internationally recognized for her 5-year starring role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the hit series BAYWATCH, Alexandra began her acting career at age 18 and starred in the motion picture AMERICAN FLYERS opposite Kevin Costner, DRAGNET opposite Tom Hanks & Dan Aykroyd, EIGHT MILLIONS WAYS TO DIE opposite Jeff Bridges & Andy Garcia, Stephen King's CHRISTINE, SPYHARD with Leslie Nielsen and two films opposite Pierce Brosnan.

For 4 years, Alexandra hosted the extreme sports series WILD WATERS on the Outdoor Life Network; concurrently hosting the WE network series WINNING WOMEN for two seasons. For 7 years, she co-hosted the environmental cable access talk show EARTH TALK TODAY.

In 1997, the United Nations commended Alexandra for her environmental activism. In 1999, she won the International Green Cross award. Alexandra was honored by the ACLU of Southern California as their 2005 Activist of the Year for her long history of fighting for the environment, voting rights and non-violence.

Alexandra has been a vegetarian she was 14. She composts, has owned electric cars for 20 years, 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. She also speaks fluent French, is a certified Emergency Medical Technician and has registered voters every Wednesday evening for the past 12 years.

In 1997, Alexandra competed in the HAWAII IRONMAN, a grueling 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 mile marathon. In 2006, she swam 10 miles from Lanai to Maui, and last year she swam an 11 mile ocean race in Fiji.

Alexandra wrote, produced and hosted the award winning films JAMPACKED, about the human overpopulation crisis, and THE COST OF COOL, on happiness and materialism.

Alexandra has also personally spoken, classroom-by-classroom, to over 6,000 Los Angeles teenagers on the issue of human overpopulation. In 1986, she co-founded YOUNG ARTISTS UNITED, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping teenagers in need. In 2005, Alexandra garnered worldwide attention when she was arrested for protesting the crushing of GM’s electric vehicle, the EV1.

Blog Entries by Alexandra Paul

Better Sex Through Vasectomies

Posted February 24, 2011 | 09:50:57 (EST)

My husband, Ian, chose to have a vasectomy three years after we were married, when he was 35. Ian was worried about my health; I was getting infections from the contraceptive jelly and we didn't like the side effects of the pill. I started avoiding putting my diaphragm in before...

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Everyone Deserves a Second Chance

Posted November 5, 2010 | 14:46:46 (EST)

Whaaaa? Alexandra Paul is helping market the Volt for GM, a company she so vehemently protested in 2005 that she ended up in jail? Has the world turned upside down?

In the world of electric vehicles, it sort of has. Five years ago, EV activists and...

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BP and Americans: Where the Blame Really Lies

Posted June 7, 2010 | 16:00:27 (EST)

By talking pretty much exclusively BP's inability to clean up this latest oil spill, we are missing the bigger picture. Focusing on BP's recent sins means we can deftly avoid our own, so we blithely bitch about BP without a thought to what role each of us plays in this...

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Prisoner, Marathoner

Posted March 23, 2010 | 11:59:41 (EST)

Nowadays, so many people run marathons that it isn't the amazing accomplishment it used to be when I first started running as a teenager in the late 70s. Back then, people thought you were overdoing it if you ran 6 miles. But on March 22, 25,000 runners of all ages...

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FedEx Office Greenwashing

Posted March 8, 2010 | 17:58:54 (EST)

I was in a 24-hour FedEx Office (formerly Kinko's) last week because I had to copy some tax information. I was in a bad mood because I am being audited. Having to copy receipts from two years ago irritated me. So I was chewing gum, in an attempt to soothe...

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Married, Without Children

Posted February 17, 2010 | 11:00:40 (EST)

I am childless by choice. It was a choice I made when I was a kid, after seeing the UNICEF commercials of hungry, thirsty children in crowded cities, swollen bellied with stick legs, black flies on their faces. At 9, I told my friend Susie Hollander, "I am not...

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