Acting
Apr 28, 1973
Paris, France
Alexandra London
Acting
Biography
Alexandra London (born April 29, 1973, in Paris) is a French actress. She made her film debut in the late 1980s and gained recognition in the early 1990s playing Marguerite Gachet in Maurice Pialat's film Van Gogh (1991).In cinema, her credits notably include feature films such as Étienne Chatiliez's Happiness Is in the Field (Le Bonheur est dans le pré, 1995), The Scream of the Silk (Le Cri de la soie, 1996), Laurence Ferreira Barbosa's I Can't Stand Love (J'ai horreur de l'amour, 1997), Why Not Me? (Pourquoi pas moi ?, 1999), Olivier Assayas's Sentimental Destinies (Les Destinées sentimentales, 2000), and Le Cœur des hommes 3 (2013). On television, she has appeared in various television films and series, while also performing in theatre.
Feature Films (17)
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.
Eugénie Grandet
After leaving the asylum, Vincent van Gogh settles in the home of Doctor Gachet, where he keeps painting amidst the torments of his failing mental health. He begins an affair with his host’s daughter, however, she soon realizes that he doesn’t love her and that his heart beats only for art.
Van Gogh
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
Aurélien
Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues.
Why Not Me?
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife. He and his lover keep their love strong as the world changes around them.
Sentimental Destinies
Independent Parisian doctor Annie finds herself in an emotional tangle when she tries to help single-minded HIV-positive patient Laurent and embarks on a brief affair with conceited actor Richard.
I Hate Love
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Le Cri de la soie
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
Natural Enemy
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
Frenchmen 3
The Soeur brothers would like to work in the film making business. They wrote a complex story that doesn't make any sense, and nobody wants to produce it. They're willing to do anything in order to make their film come to life.
The Soeur Brothers
Television & Series (3)
France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman.
