1. Alexander Winter was born on 1965 and is a British-born American actor and filmmaker.
21 Facts About Alex Winter
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Alex Winter is known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys, for co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked, and for directing documentaries in the 2010s.
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Alex Winter's mother, Gregg Mayer, is a New York-born dancer who trained with Martha Graham, and founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s.
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Alex Winter's father, Ross Albert Winter, is an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe and co-founded the Mid American Dance Company in St Louis.
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Alex Winter's father has English ancestry and his mother is Jewish, of Ukrainian Jewish descent.
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In 1978, Winter moved to the New York City area, where he and his mother lived in Montclair, New Jersey.
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In 1983, after graduating from Montclair High School, Alex Winter was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
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Alex Winter dropped out of NYU film school before his senior year and moved to Hollywood, where he began to write and direct a number of short films and music videos.
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Alex Winter continued to find work as an actor, landing notable roles in such big productions as The Lost Boys and Rosalie Goes Shopping.
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In 1989, Winter found international success when he co-starred with Keanu Reeves, playing William "Bill" S Preston Esq.
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Alex Winter did not return to directing until 1999, when he filmed the psychological thriller Fever.
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Alex Winter sustains an aura of creepiness worthy of Roman Polanski.
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Alex Winter directed its sequel, Ben 10: Alien Swarm, which aired on Cartoon Network in November 2009 and captured over 16 million viewers in its premiere weekend.
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Alex Winter's multiple award-winning 2015 documentary Deep Web had its world premiere at SXSW and a broadcast premiere in the US on the Epix network alongside a global festival tour.
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In 2016, Alex Winter released a short documentary entitled Relatively Free about journalist Barrett Brown's release from prison.
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In 2018, Alex Winter released two documentaries, The Panama Papers, about the Panama Papers, and Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain, which premiered in Los Angeles on November 16,2018.
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In July 2015, Alex Winter began work on a biographical documentary of the rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa.
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In 2024, Alex Winter produced and co-starred in the gonzo horror-comedy Destroy All Neighbors which premiered on Shudder and in limited theaters in January 2024.
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Alex Winter has stated that the intention was to be anti-Elon Musk and not Tesla.
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Alex Winter was married to Sonya Dawson, with whom he had a son, born in 1998.
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In 2018, Alex Winter revealed that he was molested by an older man at age 13 while acting on Broadway.