
Acting
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
EN cinema · 12 credits
Birthplace
Australia
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an Australian film critic and historian who has written several books in fields like horror film and women in film, including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (2011) and Masks in Horror Cinema (2019). She is co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Elaine May (2019). Heller-Nicholas appears in Alexandre O. Philippe's 2024 documentary Chain Reactions, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of Tobe Hooper's 1974 film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, interviewed alongside Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama and Takashi Miike. Her 2020 book 1000 Women in Horror, 1895 - 2020 was made into a feature documentary in 2025 which Heller-Nicholas wrote and appeared in, directed by Donna Davies.
Known for
Filmography

In Search of Nosferatu
Co-Producer

Chain Reactions
as Self

1000 Women in Horror
as Self, Writer
The Devil Pulls the Strings
2022
The Devil Pulls the Strings
as Narrator, Writer

Circumnavigating Ring
as Self, Thanks
The Power of Perception
2017
The Power of Perception
as narrator, Writer





