Alexandra Pigg

She has been married three times, first to film director Bernard Rose with whom she has a daughter, Ruby Rose. When Rose was developing Candyman, Pigg was to play the lead character Helen, with their friend Virginia Madsen to play to role of Helen's friend Bernie. The choice was then made to make the character of Bernie African American so Madsen lost the part. As shooting was about to commence, Pigg discovered that she was pregnant so the role of Helen was offered to Madsen. Pigg was then married to producer Tarquin Gotch with whom she has a daughter Lucia and a son Roman Gotch. She was interviewed with her Letter to Brezhnev co-star Peter Firth on BBC Breakfast in April 2017, during which Firth explained that they dated briefly after making the film, and that they have been in a relationship since 2010; they married in London on Christmas Eve 2017.

Following her role in the 1985 film Letter to Brezhnev, she starred in the BBC film Smart Money (1986), A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons, Strapless (1989) with Bridget Fonda, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990) with Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd, Bullseye! (1990) starring Michael Caine and Roger Moore, and Immortal Beloved (1994) with Gary Oldman.

In 1982, she portrayed Petra Taylor, with her husband Gavin played by Danny Webb, in the series Brookside.

Alexandra Pigg (born 1962 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a British actress who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera Brookside. Her best-known film appearances are as Elaine in Letter to Brezhnev (1985), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and as Bridget Baines in A Chorus of Disapproval (1988).