Alex Kingston Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Alex Kingston: (about California) I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Trivia

One of Alex's younger sisters, Susie, has severe physical and mental disabilities as a result of being deprived of oxygen at birth.

In a 2006 interview with the London Evening Standard, Alex claimed that she was rejected for a role on

In 1997 Alex met German writer and freelance journalist Florian Haertel in Los Angeles on a blind date arranged by friends. They were married on December 29, 1998, and have a daughter together, Salome Violetta, born on March 28, 2001.

When interviewed by Britain's Radio Times magazine in 2004, Alex said her

Alex's daughter, Salome, was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization). A decade earlier, when trying to conceive a child with former husband

For her 1980 role as Jill Harcourt on the British television series