Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander

Born: August 21, 1952
in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Elizabeth Alexander (born 21 August 1952) is an Australian actress, director and teacher. Alexanders' acting career began early with a part in the series Bellbird in 1967. However, it was straight from graduating at National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) that she got her big break with the part of Esther Wolcott in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) series Seven Little Australians.

Alexander has also directed a number of plays and written several screenplays, including a short film titled Memento (which was sold to Village Roadshow) which she also directed, about the emotional problems caused by the return of a father to his family, a young boy and his mother. She currently works at Queenwood School for Girls as a dramatic arts teacher.

Movies for Elizabeth Alexander...

Blueback
Title: Blueback
Character: Older Dora
Released: December 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautiful marine creature, and a young girl’s power to change the world.
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Title: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Character: Self
Released: September 8, 2015
Type: TV
Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater. Stephen Colbert, Chris Licht, Tom Purcell, and Jon Stewart are executive producers. Barry Julien and Denise Rehrig serve as co-executive producers.must watch
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The Eye of the Storm
Title: The Eye of the Storm
Character: Cherry Cheeseman
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: Movie
In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel princess, convene at her deathbed. They come to make sure they can leave Australia with their hefty inheritance.
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The Clinic
Title: The Clinic
Character: Ms Shepard
Released: October 10, 2010
Type: Movie
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
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A Moment in History - The Innauguration of Barack Obama
Title: A Moment in History - The Innauguration of Barack Obama
Character: Self
Released: March 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Revisit the historic events of Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. president before thousands of enthralled spectators on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ABC News compiles its coverage of the all the day's happenings, including the inaugural speech; outgoing president George W. Bush's helicopter exit; the president and first lady sharing their first dance at the star-studded Neighborhood Ball; and more.
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Title: Salem's Lot
Character: Ann Norton
Released: June 20, 2004
Type: TV
A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.
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Title: The Lost World
Character: Mrs. Krux
Released: April 3, 1999
Type: TV
Early 20th-century adventurers find themselves fighting for survival after their hot-air balloon crashes into a remote part of the Amazon, stranding them on a prehistoric plateau.
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Title: Farscape
Character: Vella
Released: March 19, 1999
Type: TV
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
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Alien Cargo
Title: Alien Cargo
Character: Rojean Page
Released: January 28, 1999
Type: Movie
After eight months of hyper-sleep, when Christopher 'Chris' McNiel (Jason London) and Theta Kaplan (Missy Crider) of a Mars cargo transport ship the Solar System Shipping Vessel No.17 (Triple S-17) awaken, they find out something has gone terribly wrong. They've woken up from hyper-sleep almost ten months past their scheduled time, find the ship's internals badly damaged, off course and almost no fuel. What's more, it's discovered the first shift killed each other. As the plot unfolds, something truly evil is discovered on board - an alien biological life form which can psychologically manipulate humans.
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Title: Bonjour la Classe
Released: February 15, 1993
Type: TV
Bonjour la Classe is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC1 in 1993. Created and written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan, the series centered on Laurence Didcott, a new French teacher at prestigious Mansion School. Didcott discovers a prevailing attitude at Mansion, among staff, benefactors and even students and parents, that places what's best for the school ahead of pupils' education and well-being. The scenes at the school were shot in the winter of 1992.
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Title: Time Trax
Character: Selma
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: TV
Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.
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Sebastian and the Sparrow
Title: Sebastian and the Sparrow
Character: Jenny Thornbury
Released: December 12, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of the unlikely friendship between two teenage boys from vastly different cultural backgrounds. Sparrow is a working-class street kid and Sebastien a middle-class boy of privilege. One day, they meet at a video-game arcade. Together, they become friends and embark on a journey of self-discovery to locate Sparrow's long-lost mother, an immigrant Vietnamese woman.
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Two Brothers Running
Title: Two Brothers Running
Character: Barbara Borstein
Released: June 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Two brothers, living opposite lives, gradually become close, through a series of bizarre incidents.
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Title: Home and Away
Released: January 17, 1988
Type: TV
Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher and their five foster children Frank Morgan, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Lynn Davenport and Sally Keating, who would go on to become one of the show's longest-running characters. The show also originally and currently focuses on the Stewart family. During the early 2000s, the central storylines focused on the Sutherlands and later, the Hunters. Home and Away had proved popular when it premiered in 1988 and had risen to become a hit in Australia, and after only a few weeks, the show tackled its first major and disturbing storyline, the rape of Carly Morris; it was one of the first shows to feature such storylines during the early timeslot. H&A has tackled many adult-themed and controversial storylines; something rarely found in its restricted timeslot.
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Title: Singles
Character: Alison Kirk
Released: August 14, 1984
Type: TV
Singles is a 1984 Australian television mini series about Sydney doctor Alison advertises in a singles magazine and meets five different men, the serial looked at a different date each episode.
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The Killing of Angel Street
Title: The Killing of Angel Street
Character: Jessica
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Jessica Simmonds returns from overseas to find her retired professor father in a bitter public fight to save the historic Sydney waterfront houses on Angel Street. After her father's mysterious death, she joins forces with local residents and a union leader against corrupt forces. Based on the real life mysterious disappearance of Juanita Nielsen.
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The Journalist
Title: The Journalist
Character: Liz Corbett
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: Movie
Comedy about a womanizing journalist on a Sydney newspaper who confronts job problems and impotence in the context of Australian media and politics of the 1970's. A somewhat lesser Australian film comparable to the American film Shampoo.
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Title: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Character: Petra Graf
Released: June 21, 1978
Type: Movie
The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.
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The Scalp Merchant
Title: The Scalp Merchant
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Why is everyone out to sabotage him? Cliff Rowan has been hired to recover a stolen payroll hidden in the rugged Australian hills and mountains near his boyhood town. But instead of a warm welcome and helping hand, his former sweatheart, his old school friends, and in fact, practically the whole town...want him out! When his friend, Riley, is needlessly killed, Cliff realizes the buried strongbox holds more than cold cash. The mystery unfolds.
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Summerfield
Title: Summerfield
Character: Jenny Abbott
Released: September 30, 1977
Type: Movie
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance.
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Title: Silent Number
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: TV