Sarah Alexander Bio - Biography

Name Sarah Alexander
Height 5' 4"
Naionality United Kingdom
Date of Birth 3 January 1971
Place of Birth London, England, UK
Famous for
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 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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