Elizabeth Alexander (sometimes credited as Liz Alexander), is an actress with a number of high profile credits in film, television and theatre.
Elizabeth Alexander is a Quantrell Award-winning American poet, essayist, playwright, and university professor.
She is the author of four books of poems:
American Sublime was one of three finalists for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. She is also a scholar of African-American literature and culture and recently published a collection of essays, The Black Interior.
She teaches English language/literature, African-American literature and gender studies at Yale University, and, for the 2007-08 academic year, is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Alexander's poems, short stories and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, The Village Voice, The Women's Review of Books and The Washington Post. Her play, Diva Studies, which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.
Born in Adelaide, Elizabeth has two sisters and now lives in Sydney with her family. She married actor George Spartels, who is probably best known as 'George from Playschool', and they have two daughters. Elizabeth got her first big TV break in 1973, while still attending NIDA (National Institute for Dramatic Arts), when she was offered the part of Esther Woolcot in the ABC series Seven Little Australians. In fact, the producers had all but given up on going ahead with the series until they came across Elizabeth. This role won her a Logie for Best New Talent.
