Alexandra Isles
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| Alexandra Isles | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexandra Grevina Moltke February 11, 1945 [1] Uppsala, Sweden |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) | Philip Henry Isles (m. 1967; div. 1976); 1 child Alfred Jaretzki III |
| Children | Adam Isles |
Alexandra Isles (née Moltke; born February 11, 1945) is an American actress and documentary filmmaker. She appeared as the original Victoria Winters from 1966–68 on the cult TV serial Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC TV from 1966–1971.
Background
Alexandra Grevina Moltke was born in Uppsala, Sweden of Danish and American parentage, the elder of two daughters, to Count Carl Adam Moltke, son of Count Carl Moltke and Countess Mabel Wilson Moltke (née Comstock; formerly Wright). Count Carl Adam Moltke was a permanent member of the Danish Mission to the United Nations, and Countess Mabel Moltke was an editor at Vogue. Through her American grandmother, Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer, Alexandra and her younger sister, Victoria, are she descended from the Livingston, Schuyler, Bayard and Van Rensselaer families.[2]
Career
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. In 1985, she began work at the Museum of Television & Radio where she became a curator specializing in arts, drama and children's programming. In 1991, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities launched her on a career as a producer and director of the award-winning documentaries The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and Rescue of the Jews (1995); Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1999); Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust (2002); The Healing Gardens of New York (2006); Hidden Treasures: Stories from a Great Museum (2011). Her films have been seen at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), Museum of Modern Art (NY), numerous film festivals including the Human Rights Watch and Margaret Mead Film Festivals, and all have aired on PBS.
Personal life
In 1967 she married Philip Henry Isles II of the Lehman banking family[3] and she left Dark Shadows in 1968 because she was pregnant. In 1969, she gave birth to a son, Adam. During the early 1980s, she was subpoenaed, and testified, as a witness in the trial of Claus von Bülow for attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. According to newspaper accounts, Moltke and von Bülow had been having an affair.[4][5] Isles married, secondly,[when?] to Alfred Jaretzki III.[6]
References
- ↑ Born February 11, 1945 per travel manifest, ancestry.com; accessed November 4, 2015.
- ↑ Alexandra Isles at the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ New York Times: "Philip H. Isles Becomes Fiance Of Miss Moltke"
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External links
- Alexandra Isles at the Internet Movie Database
- Alexandra Isles at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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