Alexandra Neil

Alexandra Neil is an actress whose work spans theater, film, and television. Born in Boston, she studied at the National Theater Institute in 1975 and graduated from Williams College in 1977 with a degree in English and theater. She first appeared on Broadway in Match and later took the role of Candida in Tom Stoppard's Rock'n'Roll. Her films include Afterschool (2008), Simon Killer (2012), and The Longest Week (2014), as well as Listen Up Phillip, Twelve, nonames, and Something's Gotta Give. On television she has guest starred in The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Madoff, Forever, the Law and Order shows, Madigan Men, Ed, The Sopranos, and Dudley, and she played five significant daytime serial roles, among them Ruby Wright Wheeler on Texas. Neil also writes plays, directs, and teaches acting; her play Moucheron was given a reading at the Cherry Lane in 2019, and Strange Fits had a reading at the Atlantic Theater in 2009.