Pelosi is the filmmaker behind Journeys with George, the irreverent 2000 documentary that followed George W. Bush on the campaign trail.

The daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, it's safe to say Alexandra grew up in a pretty political family. In 1995, the USC grad moved to New York to take a job at Dateline NBC. She was still working for NBC News when she began filming Journeys with George in late 1999, parlaying her job as a network producer (and her mom's connections) into access to the then-Texas Governor. The movie, which debuted on HBO in 2002, turned out to be a big hit (at least in liberal circles), revealing that George Bush has the sense of humor of a five-year-old boy, is perfectly happy munching on bologna sandwiches, and doesn't have a very firm grasp of the English language. Pelosi made a second documentary in 2004, Diary of a Political Tourist, in which she trailed the Democratic presidential candidates and then dove into the subject of evangelical Americans in Friends of God: A Road Trip With Alexandra Pelosi in 2007, and took on the topic again in both of her 2009 releases, The Trials of Ted Haggard and Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail, which followed the lives of conservative Christians during the '08 presidential election. However, in 2010 she announced that her films would not serve such an overt political agenda, as she has since branced into subjects such as homelessness and immigration.

In 2005, Pelosi married Dutch lawyer and journalist Michiel Vos; they have two children. [Image via Getty]