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Lexi Alexander - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Born August 23, 1974, Mannheim, Germany - American film director and screenwriter of Palestinian-German descent, former world champion in karate and kickboxing.
Since childhood, she was passionate about sports, and as a teenager, Alexander became a sensei, and some of her students were football hooligans. She attended football matches with them, but left when she felt that they were overstepping the bounds of decency. In 1993, at the age of 19, Alexander became the world champion in both pointfighting kickboxing and karate. She then retired from professional sports and moved to the United States, where she attended acting school in Los Angeles to pursue a career in film, and subsequently got the role of Kitana on the Mortal Kombat: Live Tour.
She then worked as a stunt performer, continuing to study acting and directing at the Pierre Douss Conservatory and the University of California, Los Angeles. The first short film she directed, Johnny Flyton, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003.
Since childhood, watching the beloved German football team Waldhof in Mannheim, Lexi Alexander has always been passionate about the sport and its passionate fans. Inspired by these experiences, she wrote the screenplay with Dougie Brimson, a former football hooligan who later became a writer, about the West Ham United fan group. She used this scenario to direct her 2005 film Hooligans, the second in South by Southwest history, after Alex Holdridge's 2003 film Sexless, to win acclaim from both the audience and the jury.
She then directed the 2008 film The Punisher: War Zone, in which Ray Stevenson played the Punisher. The film was deemed a commercial and critical failure at its release, although some critics expressed opposition to the film's negative reception.
After the frustration of her first studio experience, in 2010 she wrote and directed the spiritual film Takeoff. Alexander sent Anthony Zuiker an episode called Execution Style for the BlackBoxTV YouTube channel and continued working on scripts for her own projects.
In the following years, Lexi Alexander worked on the set of popular television series. In 2015, she directed the episode "No Hope of Redemption" for the TV series Arrow, the following year the episode "Truth, Justice and the American Way of Life" for "Supergirl", "Dog's Breakfast" for "The Domain of Darkness" and "Soul Mates" for "American Gothic", followed by episodes in 2017, respectively, "Ave Maria" for "Hostage", and "I love her" for "How to avoid punishment for murder."
In 2016 it became known that she would be involved in the production of a biopic about the life of the Canadian professional wrestler Chris Benoit, his double murder and 2007 suicide.
Lexi Alexander has been outspoken about sexism in Hollywood and talked in detail about professional opportunities that she said were missed due to gender.
