Alexandra Isles

Alexandra Isles ( Alexandra Cornelia von Moltke; born February 11, 1945)

Career In 1985, Isles began work at the Museum of Television & Radio where she became a curator specializing in arts, drama and children's programming. She left Dark Shadows in 1968 due to pregnancy. In 1969, she gave birth to a son.

Isles was the mistress of Claus von Bülow and testified at his 1982 and 1985 trials for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. She was portrayed by Julie Hagerty in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune that dramatized these events.

In 1985, Isles began work at the Museum of Television & Radio (now the Paley Center for Media), and became an Assistant Curator, working on exhibitions and screening series on the arts and children's programming. In 1991, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she produced and directed Scandalize My Name, Stories from the Blacklist, introduced by Morgan Freeman and featuring Harry Belafonte and Ossie Davis. That same year, she married a physician, Dr. Alfred Jaretzki III.

Isles' subsequent documentary films were The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and Rescue of the Jews; Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust; The Healing Gardens of New York; Hidden Treasures: Stories from a Great Museum; and Harry's Gift: A New York Story.

Filmography Television Year Title Role Notes 1966–1968Dark Shadows Victoria Winters Main role; Gothic soap opera 1968 Certain Honorable Men Betty Jo Daly Television Film

Documentary Films (Director/Producer) Year Title Role Notes 1995 The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and Rescue of the Jews Director/Producer Documentary about Denmark's rescue of Jews during WWII 1999 Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist Director/Producer Narrated by Morgan Freeman; explores McCarthy-era blacklisting of Black performers 2002 Porraimos: Europe's Gypsies in the Holocaust Director/Producer Documentary on the persecution of Roma people during WWII 2006 The Healing Gardens of New York Director/Producer Examines therapeutic gardens in urban NYC 2011 Hidden Treasures: Stories from a Great Museum Director/Producer Focuses on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections 2016 Harry’s Gift: A New York Story Director/Producer Short documentary; screened at ReelHeART International Film Festival

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result 2016 ReelHeART International Film Festival Short Documentary Harry's Gift