TV 2010-Present
2016 Crushed as Molly Belgrand
(upcoming tv movie)
2016 Shoot the Messenger as Mary Foster
This eight part CBC series features Alex as the newspaper editor of The Gazette. One of the paper's journalists, Daisy Channing, becomes involved in a criminal investigation that is tied to politics. Filmed largely on location in Toronto, Canada.
2016 Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life as Naomi Shropshire
A four part tv mini-series on Netflix in which Alex appears in two episodes as eccentric Naomi Shropshire. Rory Gilmore has written an article about Naomi and now Naomi wants the two of them to write a book about Naomi's lively life.
2013-2016 Arrow as Dinah Lance
Alex appears in seven episodes of this Warner Bros/DC Entertainment tv series filmed in Vancouver, Canada. The character of Dinah Lance is the mother of Laurel and Sara. She is also a history professor. Dinah struggles with the disappearance/loss of her daughter Sara and attempts to reconcile with Laurel.
2016 Blue Bloods as Commander Sloane Thompson
In this CBS police drama series, Alex appears in the episode, Friends in Need as visiting police official, Commander Sloane Thompson. Instead of disagreeing, she and Frank (Tom Selleck) wind up on a date.
2015 American Odyssey as Jennifer Wachtel
In this NBC tv series, Alex appears in two episodes (Real World and Bug Out) as the head of the Simon-Wachtel law firm. The series follows three strangers who investigate SOC, a powerful corporation secretly funding terrorist groups.
2014 Chasing Shadows as Ruth Hattersley
Alex appears as Ruth Hattersley, an analyst with the Missing Persons Bureau. In this four part ITV crime series, Alex is partnered with Detective Sergeant Sean Stone (Reece Shearsmith). Stone has a brilliant mind, but struggles to fit into the police force and with interacting socially with others.
2012 NCIS as Miranda Pennebaker
In the episode Gone, Alex plays Miranda. Miranda, who knows about illegal human trafficking, assists Gibbs in his search for a kidnapped girl.
2012 Upstairs Downstairs as Dr. Blanche Mottershead
In this remake ITV series of Upstairs Downstairs, Alex appears in five episodes as Dr. Blanche Mottershead, an archaeologist who lives with her nephew and his wife. Blanche becomes involved in a friendship and romantic relationship with novelist Portia (Emily Fox.)
2011 Private Practice as Marla Tomkins
Alex appears in two episodes of this ABC tv medical drama as Dr. Marla Tomkins,a book critic. Dr. Tomkins gives a negative review of Violet's book and begins dating Sheldon.
2011 Marchlands as Helen Maynard
In this five part ITV chiller/drama mini-series, Alex is Helen Maynard. She is a wife and mother whose family home in is haunted by the presence of a young girl who drowned in the 1960's.
2010 Ben Hur as Ruth
In this Canada-Spain mini-series, Alex Kingston appears as Ben Hur's mother, Ruth. After being wrongfully imprisoned, Judah Ben Hur seeks revenge when he believes his mother and sister have been killed. However, years later he learns the truth of what happened to them.
