Alexandra Isles

Alexandra Isles
Born Alexandra Grevina Moltke
(1945-02-11) February 11, 1945[1]
Uppsala, Sweden
Occupation Actress
Spouse(s) Philip Henry Isles (m. 1967; div. 1976); 1 child
Alfred Jaretzki III
Children Adam Isles

Alexandra Isles (née Moltke; born February 11, 1945) is a retired Danish-American actress and documentary filmmaker. She appeared as the original Victoria Winters from 1966–68 on the cult TV serial Dark Shadows, which aired on ABC TV from 1966–1971.

Background

Alexandra Grevina Moltke was born in Uppsala, Sweden, of Danish and American parentage, the elder of two daughters, to Count Carl Adam Moltke, son of Count Carl Moltke and Countess Mabel Wilson Moltke (née Comstock; formerly Wright). Count Carl Adam Moltke was a permanent member of the Danish Mission to the United Nations, and Countess Mabel Moltke was an editor at Vogue. Through her American grandmother, Cornelia Van Rensselaer Thayer, Alexandra and her younger sister, Victoria, are descended from the Livingston, Schuyler, Bayard and Van Rensselaer families.[2]

Career

In 1985, she began work at the Museum of Television & Radio where she became a curator specializing in arts, drama and children's programming. In 1991, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities launched her on a career as a producer and director of the award-winning documentaries The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and Rescue of the Jews (1995); Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1999); Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust (2002); The Healing Gardens of New York (2006); Hidden Treasures: Stories from a Great Museum (2011). Her films have been seen at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC), Museum of Modern Art (NY), numerous film festivals including the Human Rights Watch and Margaret Mead Film Festivals, and all have aired on PBS.

Personal life

In 1967 she married Philip Henry Isles II of the Lehman banking family[3] and she left Dark Shadows in 1968 because she was pregnant. In 1969, she gave birth to a son, Adam. During the early 1980s, she was subpoenaed, and testified, as a witness in the trial of Claus von Bülow for attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. According to newspaper accounts, Moltke and von Bülow had been having an affair.[4][5] Isles married a second time to Alfred Jaretzki III.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Born February 11, 1945 per travel manifest, ancestry.com; accessed November 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Alexandra Isles at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ New York Times: "Philip H. Isles Becomes Fiance Of Miss Moltke"
  4. ↑ "Von Bulow's ex-lover 'ashamed'". Spokane Chronicle. Associated Press. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Alexandra Isles during testimony: 'Other woman' trial witness". The Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. February 19, 1982. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
  6. ↑ Hamrick, Craig; Jamison, R.J. (2012). Barnabas and Company: The Cast of the Tv Classic Dark Shadows. iUniverse. ISBN 1475910320. Retrieved January 21, 2014.

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