Alexandra Moen

Alexandra Moen is an English actress, best known for her roles as Emily James in the British TV drama Hotel Babylon and as Tamsin in the British TV drama Tripping Over.

Moen was born in Italy in 1983 to an oceanographer father and lived briefly in Canada before moving to Bermuda with her two brothers until a teenager.^[1] She finished school in the UK and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), in London – “which I definitely now see as home," she says.

Collaboration with Doctor Who cast members

Prior to her appearance as Lucy Saxon in the closing episodes of the 2007 series of Doctor Who, Moen had appeared opposite actor David Tennant, (the tenth incarnation of The Doctor), on stage in a 2005 production of Look Back in Anger.^[2]^[3]

In the 2006 television series Tripping Over, Moen starred as Tamsin opposite Paul McGann, the actor who portrayed the Eighth Doctor in the one-off 1996 telemovie. Moen also performed on stage in 2003 with David Troughton who in addition to his own appearances on the programme is the son of actor Patrick Troughton, who played the second incarnation of the The Doctor; Moen played Maria Celeste in The Hinge of the World, the daughter to Troughton's Galileo.^[4] In Hotel Babylon, Moen has appeared with John Barrowman who plays Captain Jack Harkness both in Doctor Who and in its spin-off series Torchwood, as well as Michael Obiora, who appeared as Billy Shipton in the episode Blink.

Foyle's War (2004) episode "Enemy Fire" - Mary Wrenn
Midsomer Murders (2005) episode "Second Sight" - Emma Kirby (credited as Alexandra Moon)
.357 (2005) - Mel
Falling (2005) - Daphne
Whatever Love Means - Princess Anne
Tripping Over (2006) - Tamsin
Doctor Who (2007,2009) episodes "The Sound of Drums", "Last of the Time Lords", "The End of Time" - Lucy Saxon ^[5]
Hotel Babylon (2008) - Emily James
Waking the Dead (2008) episodes "Sins: Part 1", "Sins: Part 2" - Cathy Reading
Doctors (2010) episode "Five Seconds" as Laura Thomas^[6]

The Seagull written by Chekhov, adapted by Phyllis Nagy, directed by Steven Pimlott, Chichester, (2003) - Nina
The Hinge of the World written by Richard Goodwin at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, (2003) - Maria Celeste
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Chichester, (2003) - Jessica
Look Back in Anger written by John Osborne at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (2005) - Helena
Phaedra's Love written by Sarah Kane at the Bristol Old Vic (2005) - Strophe
Shoreditch Madonna written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz at the Soho Theatre, London, (2005) - Christina