Alex Kingston

Alex Kingston won critical acclaim in the title role of the PBS miniseries ‘Moll Flanders’, before joining TV’s top-rated medical drama ‘ER’ in its fourth season. Playing spirited surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Corday, Alex recently reprised her role alongside the rest of the original cast for the final episode of the series.

Alex is currently filming the ABC mini-series ‘Ben-Hur’ in Morocco, and will soon be seen in the independent film ‘Sordid Things’ directed by Andrew Bloomenthal. She will soon shine in the new BBC One series ‘Hope Springs’--a show about a group of female ex-convicts attempting to start a new life in Scotland.

This past season, Alex was featured in the ITV mini-series ‘Lost in Austen’ and in several episodes of the highly-successful British series ‘Dr. Who’.

Alex recently dazzled in the critically-acclaimed West End production of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, playing the iconic role of Nurse Ratched opposite Christian Slater. She also starred in the film ‘Sweetland’, opposite Alan Cumming, and ‘Alpha Dog’ starring Justin Timberlake.

Growing up on the outskirts of London, Alex was first introduced to the theatre when she and her family visited her mother’s native Germany, where she saw her uncle acting in a play. This formative event prompted Alex’s stage debut at age five, where she played the Angel Gabriel in the Christmas Nativity play.

“My mother made me these big, beautiful wings,” recalls Alex. “The other kids without wings were all jealous. I was very excited, and then a bit upset when I discovered that Gabriel was really a guy.”

Alex was further inspired to act by her English teacher at the all-girls grammar school she attended in Epsom, where she regularly nabbed leading roles in school plays. She landed her first professional role as a judo-chopping bully on the successful British series ‘Grange Hill’, at the age of fifteen.

After finishing school, Alex moved to London, where she was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. After completing the two-year program of study, she worked in repertory theatre all across England, later joining the famed Royal Shakespeare Company, and appearing in productions of ‘King Lear’, ‘The Curse of the Starving Class’ and ‘The Bright and Bold Design’.  

Alex’s feature film credits include the critically-acclaimed ‘Croupier’, ‘Carrington’, ‘The St. Exupery Story’, ‘The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover’, ‘Curran’s Wife’, ‘The Wildcats of St. Trinians’, ‘A Pin for the Butterfly’ and ‘The Woman and the Wolf.’  

Alex made a cameo appearance in the independent film ‘This Space Between Us’ and starred in the British pop-culture film ‘Essex Boys’, for which she played a double-crossing girlfriend of an underground drug criminal.