Alexandra Kerry

Alexandra Forbes Kerry (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is a partner at Locomotive Films and co-founder of Fictional Pictures, a film production company based in New York and Los Angeles.^[1][2] She is married to contemporary art curator Julien Dobbs-Higginson and they have two daughters named Isabelle (born 2014) and Allegra (born 2017).^[3]

Alexandra Forbes Kerry was born in Concord, Massachusetts on September 5, 1973. She is the elder daughter of politician John Forbes Kerry and writer Julia Stimson Thorne. Her younger sister Vanessa is a doctor.

Kerry graduated from the Milton Academy and then attended Brown University, where she studied anthropology and modern culture and media. In 2004 she graduated with an MFA in directing from the AFI Conservatory's two-year masters filmmaker program.^[4]

Kerry's short film The Last Full Measure premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and earned her top honors at the Austin Film Festival.^[5] The film also earned her the "Director of the Year" award from American Film Institute. The film was in collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

She is a co-producer of the 2008 documentary filmBe Like Others.^[2] Kerry has also had several roles in television and in film. She has appeared in two David Mamet films, State and Main in 2000 and Spartan in 2004.^[4]

As a television director, she has directed the commercial, including the pilot and first season of MTV's The Hills^[6] - and the pilot for the 2002 film The Forest. She has also co-produced several documentaries including the award-winning Be Like Others for HBO, and has won two Silver Tellies for producing and directing on an online ad campaign for Allstate Insurance.

In 2011, Kerry joined Locomotive, a New York-based independent film production and financing company. Lucy Barzun Donnelly founded Locomotive in 2007 and her producing credits include Pieces of April, Grey Gardens, Friends With Kids, A Bag of Hammers, That's What She Said, and The Go-Getter.

After completing her graduate studies at the American Film Institute, Kerry joined her sister Vanessa on the campaign trail to campaign for their father, speaking as a surrogate for her father's 2004 presidential bid. She made a speech introducing her father at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.^[7]

She also appeared alongside former Vice President Al Gore, during a campaign stop in Hawaii,^[8] and was later photographed celebrating her 30th birthday aboard a campaign plane with her family.^[9] Many of Kerry's speeches touched on issues that affected women her age and a younger demographic, preferring to make campaign stops at university campuses.

Kerry appeared in print, being interviewed by Ben Affleck for the September 2004 issue of Harper's Bazaar,^[10] as well as Vogue, USA Today and a number of other magazines. She also appeared on the MTV Music Video Awards in Miami with Vanessa joining George W. Bush's daughters Barbara and Jenna, who were campaigning for their father, George W. Bush, to encourage youth and citizen voting.^[11][12] and Larry King Live three times.^[13] Jenna later confirmed that Barbara and Jenna also developed a friendship with John Kerry's daughters, Alexandra and Vanessa.^[14]

Im September 2008 veröffentlichte sie ihr erstes Buch mit dem Titel „ Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out“ . Die Memoiren und der Bildband enthielten Fotografien aus dem Wahlkampf, die von Kerry sowie von CJ Gunther, Hector Mata und Dina Rudick aufgenommen worden waren ^{[ 15 ]} , und beleuchteten ihre Erfahrungen mit dem politischen Prozess von Wahlen. Publishers Weekly nannte die Memoiren „einfühlsam, nachdenklich und aufmerksam“ und hob hervor, dass „einer der besonderen Reize des Buches der intime Einblick in einen Wahlkampf aus der Perspektive einer Künstlerin ist“ ^{[ 16 ] .}

Kerry begleitete ihren Vater im erfolgreichen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf von Barack Obama im Jahr 2008. ^{[ 15 ]} Im Jahr 2012 gründete Kerry zusammen mit der Umweltjournalistin Amanda Griscom Little „Ad Your Voice“, ein Super-PAC, das es Wählern ermöglichte, eigene politische Werbespots zugunsten von Präsident Barack Obamas Wiederwahlkampagne zu erstellen. ^{[ 17 ] [ 18 ]}

Kerry ist derzeit Vorstandsmitglied der National Parks Conservation Association und Unterstützerin des American Ballet Theatre.

• Kerry, Alexandra (2008). Notizen aus dem Wahlkampf: Präsidentschaftspolitik von innen heraus . Rodale, Inc. ISBN 978-1-60529-980-8

• Alexandra Kerry bei IMDb
• Alexandra Kerry bei Movies Planet
• AlexKerryFilms.com