Alex Paxton-Beesley


Alex Paxton-Beesley is a Canadian actress. She is noted for her acting roles in several TV series, including Copper, The Strain, Good Witch, Wynonna Earp, Cardinal and Pure.

Education and theatre work

Paxton-Beesley graduated in 2008 from the George Brown Theatre School in Toronto, then went on to graduate from the Actors' Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre.
Paxton-Beesley has been involved in stage work at The Company Theatre in Festen in 2008, at the Canadian Stage Company and the Citadel Theatre on Rock 'n' Roll in 2009, and at the Theatre Aquarius in The Woman in White.
She returned to the stage in 2017 in Slip, a complex psychological drama in which she played a detective, at the Tarragon Theatre, her performance receiving high praise from Theatre Critic Karen Fricker.

TV and film

Paxton-Beesley has performed acting roles in several different TV series, including Copper in 2012, an American Civil War drama, wherein she played Ellen Corcoran for 11 episodes, The Strain by Guillermo del Toro in 2014, Good Witch as Eve in 2015, and Wynonna Earp as Hetty Tate, 2016. She played the role of "Red", a brain-damaged shooting victim, in six episodes of the TV series Cardinal in 2018 and in the same year starring as "Ann Funk" in Pure.

Other work

Paxton-Beesley offers advice to budding acting students that they be mentally, physically and emotionally prepared for the reality of rejection in auditions. She was purported to suggest to students at Niagara College Q-and-A session that of around 400 of her auditions only 10 per cent or so were successful.

Personal life

Her brother Tommy Paxton-Beesley is a musician, better known by the stage name River Tiber.

Filmography

TV

YearTitleRole
2009Being Erica Laurie
2010Republic of Doyle Theresa Harris
2011SuitsKelsey Price
2010–2011 Warehouse 13 Rebecca St. Claire / Young Rebecca
2011The ListenerElizabeth Simmonds
2012Christmas with Holly Shelby
2012FlashpointParamedic
2012Alphas Megan Bates
2012Beauty & the Beast Chloe London
2012Rookie Blue Rachel Finley
2012The FirmSarah Holt
2012–13CopperEllen Corcoran
2013Lost Girl Lola
2014The StrainAnn-Marie Barbour
2014Guilty at 17 June Gailey
2015HavenKira Fletcher
2015Minority ReportLiz Rutledge
2015RemedyJennifer Wilson
2015Good WitchEve
2016Private EyesRobyn Westing
2016Wynonna EarpHetty Tate
2017The Perfect Soulmate Sarah Miles
2009–17Murdoch Mysteries Winifred Pink / Winifred 'Freddie' Pink / Lillie Dunn
2018–19PureAnna Funk
2018ImpulseSabine
2018CardinalRed
2020The Bold Type Eva Rhodes