Alex Wolff

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Alex Wolff at the premiere of Human Capital at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Alexander Draper Wolff (born November 1, 1997 in Manhattan , New York ) is an American actor and musician .

Life

Alex Wolff is the youngest son of the actress , producer , screenwriter and director Polly Draper and the jazz musician Michael Wolff . He lives in Manhattan , New York with his parents and older brother Nat Wolff .

Wolff became known together with his brother Nat as the star of the television series and the films The Naked Brothers Band (NBB). Wolff is the drummer , he also writes songs and sings. The television series and the films were co-designed by his mother as a screenwriter and director. About working with her, Alex Wolff said:

"It's good. It's better than working with anyone else. She's your mom; she's not an authority. You don't have to behave. " Translated:" It's good. It's better than working with someone else. She is your mother; she is not an authority figure. You don't have to behave. "

In preschool he founded the Naked Brothers Band with his brother Nat . He taught himself to play the drums by studying videos by Ringo Starr . He started making and writing music at the age of two.

He played young Pete Wentz in Fall Out Boy's music video "The Take Over, The Break's Over" . The Wolff brothers appeared in guest roles in the 2009 film Mr. Troop Mum .

The Wolff brothers are also on tour as "Nat & Alex". With Nat & Alex: Fully Dressed And On Tour they started their tour debut in the USA in autumn 2008.

After minor roles in David Gordon Green's The Sitter and Kirk Jones ' My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 , among others , he played the lead role in the festival hit Coming Through the Rye by James Sadwith in 2015 . In it he embodies the boy Jamie, who goes in search of his idol, the reclusive New Hampshire author JD Salinger . In 2016 he was seen in Boston , where he embodied Jochar Zarnajew . He plays Jared in the 2017 film The House of Tomorrow .

In the 2017 film My Friend Dahmer , Wolff played Derf Backderf , a school friend of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer . In 2018 he starred alongside Gabriel Byrne in the hit horror drama Hereditary .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A TV Family Bound by Blood and a Band , New York Times, January 25, 2007
  2. ↑ Polly Draper: The Naked Brothers' Mother Returns to TV , TV.guide February 2, 2007
  3. ↑ Talking with Nat and Alex Wolff of the Naked Brothers Band ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kaboose 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / entertainment.kaboose.com
  4. ^ Official homepage of the Wolff brothers ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.natnalex.com
  5. ↑ The Naked Brothers Are “Fully Dressed and On Tour”!  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , teenscoop.net, seen April 11, 2009 /@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / teenscoop.net  

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personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolff, Alexander Draper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor and musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York