She earned her master's degree at Cal State Long Beach, where she taught for several years, is a Viewpoints Associate at The Steppenwolf Theater and has taught in schools across the country. Billings is an Associate Professor of Theater at USC. She is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.īillings married her high school sweetheart Chrisanne Blankenship-Billings in 1996 in a ceremony held at the Bailiwick Theater in Chicago. She has won the TPA Award, The Rainbow Spirit Award and was inducted into the Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in Chicago. In 2016, she moderated a panel during Transgender Awareness Month at the White House. In 2017, she was honored to receive the Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). Alexandra Billings is an actress, singer, author, teacher and activist who has starred on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of The Nap at. She is the recipient of five After Dark Awards and a Joseph Jefferson Award.īillings’ activism stretches across the continent. She originated the role of Alejandra in Time to Burn by Charles Mee at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and toured to Off-Broadway in Jeff Richmond and Michael Thomas’s camp classic Hamlet! The Musical! Billings’s CD Being Alive, produced by Ralph Lampkin Jr., was up for Grammy consideration. Her one-woman autobiographical show Before I Disappear toured from Chicago to Boston to Los Angeles and was performed off-Broadway at The Producer’s Club, winning rave reviews and running for more than ten years. Every stage role she plays is considered to be a first for a transgender actress. She has played everyone from Mama Rose in Gypsy to Mrs. Her autobiographical cabaret/musical S/He & Me was performed at The Renberg Theater in Los Angeles. Her work extends to feature films: Billings stars in Freelancers Anonymous and Valley of Bones opposite Autumn Reeser and Rhys Corio.Īcting since 1968, Billings has performed across the United States in hundreds of plays and musicals. Her life story From Schoolboy to Showgirl: the Alexandra Billings Story for PBS television was nominated for an Emmy for Best Documentary.
She starred in the ABC film Romy and Michelle: A New Beginning, one of the first times a transgender actress played a transgender character in television history.
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She has guest-starred on How to Get Away with Murder, Grey’s Anatomy, E.R., Nurses opposite Lynn Redgrave, and the Ryan Murphy pilot Pretty/Handsome.
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She stars opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the second season of the Amazon Original series Goliath. Ben Brantley of The New York Times called her performance “.a sensational Broadway debut…” and “.a marvel of glamorous menace.”īillings stars as Davina in the award-winning Amazon Original series Transparent. Alexandra Billings is an actress, singer, author, teacher and activist who has starred on Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of The Nap at the Samuel J.
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