Alexis Pauling
- Director
- Writer
- Casting Department
Alexis Nichele Pauling is a native of Los Angeles. She grew up in entertainment. Born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Hollywood, CA. Alexis grew up on television and film sets as well as in music studios. Her mother, Celeste Cooley worked in film & television through the late 70's to the early 90s. Celeste worked for Dinah Shore in the late 1970's and would often take Alexis to the set with her. Celeste was Late Director Ivan Reitman's Executive Assistant for several years.
Alexis comes from a very musical and influential family. Her father, Clarence Paul (aka CP), was a Motown song writer/record producer. He produced & wrote many of Stevie Wonder's first albums. Clarence was instrumental in bringing Stevie to Motown, but rarely gets the credit he deserved. Clarence was also the person who came up with Wonder as Stevie's last name. Clarence's brother Lowman Pauling started the first ever soul group 'The Five Royales' which was recently inducted into the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. Lowman has also been credited with inventing distortion for electric guitars as well as fuzz bass. Alexis' God Father was Marvin Gaye.
Alexis is a SAG/AFTRA member and has been a Red Carpet Correspondent at the S.A.G. Awards as well as a vocal stand-In for CBS' Rockstar INXS. She worked as a Set Production Assistant on the McCarthy's pilot and has a small part in the Richard Gasparian short film 'Private War' which showed at two film festivals at Cannes in 2013. In 2018 Alexis created Claymonics. Claymonics are words that Alexis transforms into sacred geometric patterns . Most recently Alexis wrote, produced and directed the SAG Short film Mandela Affected in 2022.
Alexis comes from a very musical and influential family. Her father, Clarence Paul (aka CP), was a Motown song writer/record producer. He produced & wrote many of Stevie Wonder's first albums. Clarence was instrumental in bringing Stevie to Motown, but rarely gets the credit he deserved. Clarence was also the person who came up with Wonder as Stevie's last name. Clarence's brother Lowman Pauling started the first ever soul group 'The Five Royales' which was recently inducted into the rock 'n' roll Hall of Fame. Lowman has also been credited with inventing distortion for electric guitars as well as fuzz bass. Alexis' God Father was Marvin Gaye.
Alexis is a SAG/AFTRA member and has been a Red Carpet Correspondent at the S.A.G. Awards as well as a vocal stand-In for CBS' Rockstar INXS. She worked as a Set Production Assistant on the McCarthy's pilot and has a small part in the Richard Gasparian short film 'Private War' which showed at two film festivals at Cannes in 2013. In 2018 Alexis created Claymonics. Claymonics are words that Alexis transforms into sacred geometric patterns . Most recently Alexis wrote, produced and directed the SAG Short film Mandela Affected in 2022.