- Born
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- Birth nameAlexandra Lendon Bastedo
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Alex started her career at a dancing school when she was 5 and as she got older she trained as an actress then at 16 she made a film in Hollywood but then turned down further tv and film offers in order to complete her schooling, Winning the role of Sharron Macready in in the television series The Champions was the high point of a short but highly successful career,
- IMDb mini biography by: Tonyman 5
- SpousePatrick Garland(December 18, 1980 - April 20, 2013) (his death)
- A staunch advocate for animal rights, she set up the ABC Animal Sanctuary near Pulborough in West Sussex.
- Appeared on the cover of the album "Rank" (1988) by the British alternative band The Smiths. The image originally appeared in the book "Birds of Britain".
- Her childhood ambition was to become a vet. At age 16, she entered a "teenage diplomat" competition organized by a newspaper, beating 4,000 finalists to win a role in a comedy thriller, 13 Frightened Girls (1963).
- She and her husband were long-standing friends of the United Kingdom's King Charles III.
- Later in life, she became president of her local branch of the RSPCA, and founded the Alexandra Bastedo Champions (ABC) Animal Sanctuary in West Sussex.
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