Alexandra L. D (born June 8, 1973 in Toronto) is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Rommie in the science-fiction TV series Andromeda.
Doig’s exotic appearance stems from her mixed heritage – Irish and Scottish descent on her father’s side, Filipina on her mother’s. She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, where her family held season tickets to their local theatre, and caught the acting bug at the age of nine, after seeing a production of Porgy and Bess. At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. She did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles.
She had a small role on Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict.
Her first significant role was on William Shatner’s series TekWar as the character “Cowgirl”, a specialist in tracking and obtaining information from the net. Doig recalls the time she heard the news of this role: “I walked out of the audition absolutely convinced I had blown it, and then my agent called to tell me I got the part. I was leaping around my parents’ house and screaming at the top of my lungs. I knew then I’d chosen the right profession and I’ve never looked back since.”
