Alexandra Pelosi
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Alexandra C. Pelosi (born on October 5, 1970 in San Francisco, California)[1] is a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and writer based in New York City. She is the daughter of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In 2000, Pelosi worked as a network television producer for NBC covering George W. Bush's presidential campaign. She brought along a handheld camcorder documenting her experience on the campaign trail; the footage was used to create Journeys with George, a documentary that earned her six Emmy nominations.
After spending a decade at NBC News, she left network news to work exclusively for HBO. During the 2004 Democratic primaries, she returned to the campaign trail, this time following the Democratic candidates. Her HBO documentary, Diary of a Political Tourist, aired just before the 2004 election. Accompanying the film, she wrote Sneaking into the Flying Circus: How the Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns into Freak Shows, a book about the process of selecting candidates for President of the United States. She stated that her conversations with Candy Crowley of CNN, Howard Dean, and Wesley Clark inspired her to write a book.
In 2006, she created the documentary about evangelical Christians called Friends of God which featured former pastor Ted Haggard. After it aired on HBO in 2007, she made a follow-up film, The Trials of Ted Haggard, chronicling the exile of Ted Haggard from New Life Church after his sex and drug scandal. The film was critically acclaimed: Oprah called it 'riveting', Anderson Cooper called it 'fascinating', and Larry King called Pelosi 'a terrific tv producer'.
In 2008, she followed the McCain campaign as part of the production of another film, Right America: Feeling Wronged, which premiered on HBO on President's Day 2009.
[edit] Personal life
Pelosi grew up in San Francisco, California, earned a B.A from Loyola Marymount University and graduated from University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication in 1993.
On June 18, 2005 she married Dutch journalist, lawyer, and United States correspondent Michiel Vos (born on December 19, 1970 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Pelosi gave birth to their first child, a boy named Paul Michael Vos, on November 14, 2006 in New York.[2] Pelosi had her second child, Thomas Vincent Vos, on December 7, 2007 in New York. Vos has a weekly spot on the Q Music show Ruuddewild.nl in which he discusses his experiences in America. They live in Manhattan, New York City.
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