Alexandra Pigg (born Sandra McKibbin; 1962) is a British actor who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera Brookside.
Her best-known film appearances are as Elaine in Letter to Brezhnev (1985), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and as Bridget Baines in A Chorus of Disapproval (1988).
[2] In 1982, she portrayed Petra Taylor, with her husband Gavin played by Danny Webb, in the series Brookside.
Following her role in the 1985 film Letter to Brezhnev,[4] she starred in the BBC film Smart Money (1986),[2] A Chorus of Disapproval (1988) with Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Irons, Strapless (1989) with Bridget Fonda, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990) with Kiefer Sutherland and Emily Lloyd, Bullseye!
She was originally cast in the role of Kochanski in the pilot episode of Red Dwarf but was unavailable for new recording dates following an electricians' strike, so the part then went to Clare Grogan.