Alexandra Pelosi Biography – Alexandra Pelosi Wiki
Alexandra Pelosi born Alexandra Corinne Pelosi is an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer. She is the daughter of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Paul Pelosi. She has filmed, produced, and directed 14 documentary films, 13 with Sheila Nevins. Her film, American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself was released on Showtime. This was their 13th film together. Before making documentaries, she spent ten years as a field producer at NBC News. In 2000, while working as a producer for NBC covering George W. Bush’s presidential campaign, she brought along a handheld camcorder documenting 18 months of her experience on the campaign trail; the footage was used to create Journeys with George, a documentary that earned her six Emmy nominations.
In 2001, Sheila Nevins convinced Pelosi to leave network news to work exclusively for HBO. During the 2004 Democratic primaries, she returned to the campaign trail, this time following the Democratic candidates. Her HBO documentary, Diary of a Political Tourist, was accompanied by her first book Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows, about the process of selecting candidates for President of the United States. She stated that her conversations with Candy Crowley of CNN, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark inspired her to write a book.
In 2006, she created the documentary about evangelical Christians called Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi which featured former pastor Ted Haggard. After it aired on HBO in 2007, she made a follow-up film, The Trials of Ted Haggard, chronicling the exile of Ted Haggard from New Life Church after his sex and drug scandal, which The New York Times called “strangely intriguing”. The LA Times review said, “this heartbreaking little film that may wind up being the most powerful indictment of homophobia since Brokeback Mountain.” She went back on the campaign trail in 2008 to document the birth of the Tea Party movement at Republican campaign events for her film, Right America: Feeling Wronged – Some Voices from the Campaign Trail, which premiered on HBO on President’s Day 2009. CNN reported in July 2010 that she was no longer making political documentaries. Her 2010 HBO film, Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County follows the children of the working poor in Orange County, California. The New York Times praised the film for “advancing a theme of the failed American dream.”
On July 4, 2011, HBO debuted her next film Citizen U.S.A.: A 50 State Road Trip. Pelosi traveled to all 50 states to attend naturalization ceremonies and interviewed immigrants as they became legalized American citizens. The film was released with a coffee table book titled Citizen USA: A 50 State Road Trip. She was at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with her film Fall to Grace, about disgraced former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey. She was spotted around Park City with fellow headliner Kenneth Cole.
In 2015, Pelosi returned to San Francisco to make a film about the tech boom’s impact on the city. According to Recode, it’s “a clear-eyed, sober recap of what’s been going on…Her tale is also deeply personal; she grew up in San Francisco, but she has lived in New York for a long time. A key theme of the documentary is that the San Francisco to which she’s returning is very different from the one she left.” Variety called San Francisco 2.0 “one of her finest.” San Francisco 2.0 was nominated for an Emmy for best business reporting. In 2016, she made Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? about money’s influence in politics. In a profile in Vogue, Pelosi calls her film a “light romp into the road map of the people and places that are funding our elections.” The film drops in on a handful of folks who rank on the OpenSecrets.org list of top donors. Uproxx described it as watching “Pelosi meet with an assortment of billionaire donors, asking them why they give millions to candidates, how this funding affects campaigns, and all the access these hefty donations can get you.” On the press tour for the film, she talked about everything she has learned in her lifetime on the political fundraising circuit.
The Words That Built America, Pelosi’s eleventh film, premiered on July 4, 2017, narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning David McCullough, is a reading of the U.S. Constitution read by all the living presidents, vice presidents, 50 US senators of both parties, Supreme Court justices, and others. It includes a reading of the Declaration of Independence read by The Rock, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Sean Hannity, Kid Rock, and other celebrities. It ends with middle-school children from the United Nations International School reading the Bill of Rights and summaries of the other amendments. On Anderson Cooper 360, Anderson Cooper talked about hanging out with Pelosi’s two sons on the set. According to The Port Arthur News, Pelosi was spotted in Port Arthur filming a new HBO documentary about Trump’s America.
Outside the Bubble: A Roadtrip with Alexandra Pelosi aired on HBO in October 2018. According to IMDB, “Pelosi sets out on a cross-country trip to engage in conversations with fellow Americans in an effort to gain an unfiltered understanding of other perspectives.” According to The New York Times,”It’s not just another episode of the learned cosmopolitan descending from the ivory tower to produce anthropological discourses on that strange creature known as the Trump voter and make it back to the big city in time for a martini. Though she is Democratic royalty, she has spent much of her career dissecting, with compassion, the psyche of the political right in America.”
In January 2019, Pelosi debuted “Goodbye Congress” on HBO’s Vice News Tonight – the film that features exit interviews with 14 retiring members of Congress, including Speaker Paul Ryan and 7 other Republicans who explain how Washington works. In October 2020, Pelosi released American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself on Showtime. On The Daily Show, she talked about filming the National Guard’s use of chemical agents at the protest outside the White House on June 1, 2020. She earned a B.A. from Loyola Marymount University. In 1993, she received a master’s degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Alexandra Pelosi Age
She was born on October 5, 1970, in San Francisco, California, United States.
Alexandra Pelosi Husband
She is married to her husband, Michiel Vos. On June 18, 2005, in Greenwich Village, she married Dutch journalist, lawyer, and the United States correspondent Michiel Vos (born on December 19, 1970, in Groningen, the Netherlands). She resides in Greenwich Village. Her bathroom was featured in the Home & Garden section of The New York Times.
Alexandra Pelosi Children
In 2006, she gave birth to their first child, a boy named Paul, named after her father Paul. She had a second son in 2007, named Thomas, after his great grandfather Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. Maureen Dowd wrote in The New York Times about the charity lemonade stand that Ms. Pelosi’s son Thomas runs in Manhattan. In previous years, the proceeds have gone to Hurricane Harvey and California wildfire victims.
Alexandra Pelosi Family
She was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She is the daughter of Paul Pelosi and his wife U.S. House speaker, Nancy Pelosi. The youngest of five children, Paul Pelosi, Jr., Nancy Corinne Pelosi, Christine Pelosi, and Jacqueline Pelosi.
Alexandra Pelosi Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @alexandrapelosi. Her Instagram is set to private.
