Alexandria “Alex” Stapleton Documentary Filmmaker (IMDb)
Women and Adversity:
Alexandria Stapleton
Documentary Filmmaker
February is
Black History Month
Alexandria “Alex” Stapleton has a host of award-winning and high-rated documentaries, the most recent of which is the December 2025 release of Netflix’s Sean Coombs: The Reckoning that she directed. She came to New York to interview multiple people for the documentary before Coombs was indicted. The docuseries received an 88 percent on the rating system Rotten Tomatoes. Scores of 60 percent and over are considered “Fresh” or good. Below 60 percent is “rotten” or bad.
Another of her celebrity documentaries is an ESPN Films production of The Brittney Griner Story, the basketball player detained in Russia. The documentary had its world premiere on January 27, 2026 at the Sundance Film Festival. The film is set to be released on ESPN by the end of the year.
Stapleton received an Emmy award in 2017 for SoCal Connected, a KCET/PBS weekly news documentary series that reports on important issues in Southern California.
Her goal in her work is to present all sides of a story.
Bio
Birth name – Kristin Alexandria Stapleton
Age – She doesn’t disclose it or other personal information. Believed to be in late 40s or early 50s
Hometown – Houston
Schooling – Stopped her formal education at 19 to pursue filmmaking
Career
- 2005 – Debut with Just for Kicks, a documentary about sneakers and their history.
Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival - 2011 – Directed Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, which premiered at the
Sundance Festival and Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for the Camera d’Or
award - 2019 – Directed and executive produced the Netflix documentary Hello, Privilege. It’s
Me, Chelsea about Chelsea Handler - 2020 – Directed Netflix docuseries The Playbook about coach Jill Ellis
- 2021 – Executive produced the FX documentary series Pride about the fight for
LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. Nominated for the GLAAD award - 2021 – Founded House of NonFiction, a production company
- 2023 – Directed and produced Reggie, about baseball player Reggie Jackson. Nominated
for a Critics Choice award - 2024 – Directed God Save Texas, The Price of Oil, which focuses on the energy industry
and how it affected her family in Houston
Further information
www.pbssocal.org/people/alex-stapleton
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/i-see-u/2024/03/15/480705/i-see-u-episode-109-the-oil-gaslighting-industry-of-texas-with-award-winning-director-alex-stapleton
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/director-alex-stapleton-of-god-save-texas-the-price-of-oil/id1056793768?i=1000646897440
My ebooks available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com:
Honoring 23 Black Women, Recognizing 23 Notable Mothers, Saluting 23 Faithful Suffragists
