Alexander received two Emmy Award nominations in 1987 in the category Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series for the Max Headroom episode "Body Banks" and in the category Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television mini series Fresno. The latter one was shared with Carol A. O'Connell. In 1990 she received another nomination in the category Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television movie Midnight Train to Moscow and won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries or a Special for her work on the television drama Fall from Grace on which she worked with Trek actors J. Michael Flynn, John McLiam, and Richard Herd. In 2004 she won a Hollywood Makeup Artist