Alexis Strum Musical artist
Alexis Rebecca Strum is an English actress, singer-songwriter and comedy writer. After a long career in the music industry (see below), Alexis is currently focusing on her acting career, touring the UK as Eva Cassidy's sister, Margaret in the musical 'Over The Rainbow- The Eva Cassidy Story' (2011-12), whilst forging a career as a comedy writer. She is shortly due to co-star as 'Denise' in self-penned comedy short, 'Shoes', directed by BBC's Dermot Canterbury and has recently appeared as misunderstood man-eater, 'Samantha' in Persona, the world's first ever daily drama series app created entirely for the iPhone, directed by Don Allen and Sheena Holliday PERSONA by APP MEDIA. Alexis has also acted in "The Man Who Married Himself" with Richard E Grant and Emilia Fox, co-starred in the film, "Will's Diaries", directed by Charis Orchard, as well as featuring in many short films and several worldwide commercials (Schweppes, Niquitin etc...). Alexis has also had rave reviews in theatre productions of 'It Started With A Touch', playing lesbian schoolteacher Fay at the Wimbledon Theatre and as Lady Macbeth in 'A Season Before The Tragedy Of Macbeth' at the Camden People's Theatre, for which she was described as, "the excellent Alexis Strum. Her strength and poise gave her character some much needed gravitas" Fringe Review 2010 Prior to her acting career, Alexis was a recording artist- she released singles in the UK whilst signed to Warner and Universal records respectively as a solo artist, provided guest vocals on the song, 'April Fools' with Robbie Williams, sang on dance records for York, Lange and Ed Case as well as wrote and recorded a song on Channel 4's 'The Inbetweeners' soundtrack in 2010. She has also worked extensively as a song-writer, co-writing "Still Standing" on Kylie Minogue's album Body, "Nothing Good About This Goodbye" on Rachel Stevens' album Come and Get It and "Why Not Us?" for top German girlband, Monrose. Alexis Strum was also the singer and songwriter behind Bo Pepper, a puppet-fronted indie pop band/ project, championed by the likes of Perez Hilton.