Sarah Alexander

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Recent Role:
Lydia Harsnet on Agatha Christie's Marple
Gender:
Female
Born:
1-3-1971
Birthplace:
London, England, UK
Sarah Alexander is particularly familiar to television audiences for such award-winning series as the hit comedy The Worst Week of my Life, People Like Us, three series of Armstrong & Miller and three series of Smack the Pony, the all-female comedy sketch show.

For audiences outside the UK she is most known for playing Susan Walker for four seasons on the hit show Coupling.


Sarah knew that she wanted to act from a very young age: "But I kept it quiet. My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs




More programmes including Panorama, and I didn't think he'd find acting a sensible option.



"But as soon as I'd finished my A-levels I got on a train to Edinburgh and that was it."



She continues: "Having started in theatre, for a long time I wanted to be a classical actress. But I've always loved making people laugh - at school I was quite mischievous and bit by bit I found myself working more and more in comedy.



"Then I met up with Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong and we started doing lots of stuff for the Paramount Channel.



"Meanwhile I appeared in Drop the Dead Donkey and Red Dwarf and I eventually ended up as part of the regular team in Smack the Pony."



Other television credits include: Green Wings (Channel 4); Dr Terrible's House of Horrible: Voodoo Feet of Death; People Like Us; Midsomer Murders (Carlton); The Eleven O'Clock News Show (Channel 4); The Strangerers (Sky); Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter; Red Dwarf; Smith and Jones (two series) and Drop the Dead Donkey.




Films include: Going Off Big Time; The New Adventures of Pinocchio; Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Michael Bogdanov); Princess and Sea View Nights.



Theatre includes: The Vagina Monologues (New Ambassadors Theatre); Hand in Hand (Hampstead Theatre); The Secretary Bird (Far East Tour); Northanger Abbey (Queens, Hornchurch); Lady Macbeth in MacBeth (Gateway, Chester); Gaslight (Gateway, Chester) and Jesus in A Peasant of El Salvador (Edinburgh Festival).

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    8.1 Great
    Beautiful actress with superb comedic timing hide show

    Sarah Alexander is one of only a handful of female actresses who can make me burst out in laughter. Her performances in 'Coupling' are superb - she can deliver punch lines with the sort of comedic timing that I would normally associate with people such as Hugh Lawrie or Rowan Atkinson (which is high praise I realise).

    I'm not sure how she'd do outside of her comfort zone playing a confident and dominant female - I don't know if she could pull off a cute, clumsy role for instance, but given roles as in Green Wing, Coupling and The Worst Week of My Life, she'll always give me plenty of giggles

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    7.8 Good
    A beautiful and talented woman. hide show

    Although she is mostly a comedic actress she does well in other roles. She has been in television, movies, and theatre. But she is most remembered in comedy shows in Britain and in the US namely Teachers on NBC. Comedy might not be the best method of showing depth or flexibility of her talent, but she can always make one laugh which is a skill not everyone has (not intentionally). She is also working on creating her own show and writing with some prety big names in the entertainment industry, whether it will work out or not is another story.

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