Alex Kapp Horner

{{Infobox person

|image = Alex Kapp Horner Iraq.jpg

|caption = Kapp in Iraq 2007

|name = Alex Kapp

|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1969|12|5}}

|birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

|birth_name = Alexandra Deering Kapp

|yearsactive = 1994–present

|spouse = {{marriage|Robert Christian Horner|1995|2016|end=div.}}{{Cite web |date=2016-06-24 |title=Alexandra Kapp Horner vs Robert Christian Horner |url=https://unicourt.com/case/ca-la2-alexandra-kapp-horner-vs-robert-christian-horner-399948 |access-date=2021-12-18 |website=Los Angeles County Superior Courts |language=en}}

|children = 2

|occupation = Actress

}}

Alex Kapp (born Alexandra Deering Kapp; formerly Alex Kapp Horner; December 5, 1969) is an American television actress and writer, best known for her role as Lindsay on the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–10).

Career

Kapp began her career in Los Angeles as a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe. In mid-1990s she began appearing on television shows, including Party of Five, JAG, Seinfeld, Friends, ER and Will & Grace. She also appeared in the television movie A Mother's Prayer (1995) with Linda Hamilton, and from 1998 to 1999 was regular cast member on the short-lived sitcom Maggie Winters.{{cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/general/alex-kapp-horner-60180708/#/ms-13774/1|title=Alex Kapp Horner|website=Hollywood.com|accessdate=September 5, 2019}}

From 2006 to 2010, Kapp co-starred opposite Julia Louis-Dreyfus in her sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine on CBS. She also had supporting role in the 2009 comedy film Weather Girl starring Tricia O'Kelley, her The New Adventures of Old Christine co-star. The following years, she guest-starred on Happy Endings, Drop Dead Diva, Two and a Half Men, I Didn't Do It, and Baby Daddy. In 2013, she was cast as female lead in the Fox comedy series Surviving Jack opposite Christopher Meloni,{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2013/03/alex-kapp-horner-set-as-female-lead-in-halpernschumacker-joshua-erenberg-added-to-rand-ravich-455022/|title=Alex Kapp Horner Set As Female Lead In Halpern/Schumacker, Joshua Erenberg Added To Rand Ravich|author=Nellie Andreeva|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=March 15, 2013|accessdate=September 5, 2019}} but was fired after one episode.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2013/05/alex-kapp-horner-exits-new-fox-comedy-series-surviving-jack-497291/|title=Alex Kapp Horner Exits Fox Comedy 'Surviving Jack' - Deadline|author=Nellie Andreeva|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=May 12, 2013|accessdate=September 5, 2019}} Rachael Harris replaced her.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2013/08/rachael-harris-to-star-opposite-chris-meloni-in-fox-series-surviving-jack-559212/|title=Rachael Harris To Star Opposite Chris Meloni In Fox Series 'Surviving Jack'|author=Nellie Andreeva|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=August 7, 2013|accessdate=September 5, 2019}}

Personal life

Kapp grew up in New York City, her father a conductor and her mother an opera singer.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-21 |title=Alex Kapp Horner – Mommy Moments |url=https://starrymag.com/alex-kapp-horner-mommy-moments/ |access-date=2021-12-18 |website=Starry Constellation Magazine |language=en-US}} She graduated from Dartmouth College with a degree in history. Prior to her acting career, she gained notoriety as Robert Chambers' girlfriend at the time of the 1986 preppie murder scandal.{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alex-kapp-horner/189433/|title=Alex Kapp Horner: Biography|work=TV Guide|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222141917/http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/alex-kapp-horner/bio/189433|archivedate=February 22, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}} Kapp appears in the documentary The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park.