Alexandra Helgerson

Biography

Alexandra Helgerson has worked as a filmmaker, actor, teacher and musician. She earned a degree in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley, where she played basketball her freshman year. After working in publishing at Town&Country Magazine in New York, she began a career in acting. Notable roles include Viola and Rosaline for the American Shakespeare Center, Vivien in VIVIEN, and Brynn in HAPPY ENDING, a horror-comedy to be released for streaming and video on demand by Buffalo 8 on June 27th. AGE GROUP WINNER is her directorial debut. A recent survivor of sarcoma, Helgerson discovered Taylor Swift after chemotherapy, and cites Swift’s songwriting as an influence for h...