Alexandra Vandernoot

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Alexandra Vandernoot
Born (1965-09-19) 19 September 1965 (age 59)
Brussels, Belgium
Education Royal Conservatory of Brussels
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
Height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Parents

Alexandra Vandernoot (born 19 September 1965) is a Belgian film and television actress.

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Early life and education

Born in Brussels, Vandernoot is the daughter of Yugoslavia-born ballerina Dušanka Sifnios and Belgian conductor André Vandernoot.

She studied drama at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.

Career

Film

She appeared in the sex comedy Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986), and starred in a number of French films. Vandernoot had a small part in the 1994 film Pret-a-Porter . She appeared in the box office hit The Dinner Game (1998) and The Closet (2001).

Television

In 1992, Vandernoot guest starred on the Canadian series Counterstrike as femme fatale Noelle, accused of murder and jewel theft.

Vandernoot is perhaps best known internationally as Tessa Noël, the girlfriend of Duncan MacLeod in the 1990s action-fantasy Highlander: The Series . Introduced in the series premiere, Tessa appeared through the fourth episode of season two, "The Darkness," in which she was killed off. Vandernoot returned in the season two finale, "Counterfeit Part Two," as a woman made-up to look like Tessa, and also in the series finale as Tessa Noël.

In 2007, Vandernoot played an engineer in Ondes de choc, a mini-series produced by the French public channel France 3 retracing an accident at a chemical factory comparable to the AZF factory disaster. [1] [2] In 2008, Vandernoot appeared in the television movie Un vrai Papa Noël. [3] [4]

Personal life

With French director Bernard Uzan, Vandernoot has a son who was born in 1995 and a daughter who was born in 2003.

Filmography

Film

Television

ACTOR television credits
YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
1991 Maigret Anna Peeters1 episode
1992 Counterstrike NoelleEpisode: "Cherchez la Femme"
1992–1998 Highlander: The Series Tessa Noël 31 episodes
2010 Josephine, Guardian Angel Sharon1 episode

References

  1. ↑ Nataf, Isabelle (22 September 2007). "Six éclairages pour une explosion". Le Figaro (in French). p. 39. ISSN   0182-5852.
  2. ↑ Dufour, Nicolas (22 September 2007). "Bonne réaction chimique". Le Temps (in French). ISSN   1423-3967.
  3. ↑ Didier, Carine (8 December 2008). "TF 1, 20 h 50/ - L'autre visage de Bigard". Le Parisien (in French). p. 38. ISSN   1251-8891.
  4. ↑ Pinheiro, José (8 December 2008). "Un Vrai Papa Noël". VAB, TF1. Retrieved 3 May 2025.
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