Director, producer and screenwriter Alexander Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska. His parents, Peggy (Constantine) and George Payne, ran a Greek restaurant. His father is of Greek and German ancestry, and his mother is of Greek descent; the family name was originally Papadopoulos. He is the youngest of three brothers. Alexander attended Stanford University, where he majored in Spanish and History. He then went on to study film at UCLA Film School. His university thesis film was screened at the Sundance film festival, which led to him being backed by Miramax to write and direct Citizen Ruth (1996). Payne prefers to have control over his movies, from scripts to cast.
Alexander Peleg was an actor, known for Ha-E (2007), A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) and Masada (1981). He died on January 14, 2022 in Israel.
Alexander Pelling-Bruce is an actor, known for Kids in Love (2016).
Alexander Pennecke is an American actor, writer and film producer. He has begun to carve out a name for himself on camera and stage alike. Pennecke was born Alexander Garrett Pennecke in Bethesda, Maryland and was raised in the Hampton Roads, Virginia region. While in high school, Pennecke attained National-rankings as a sprinter on the track & field team. From there, he went on to run for the Division-1 track & field team at George Mason University. An injury forcing him to leave the sport, he discovered acting through a required arts credit and transitioned into the industry, earning his stripes on multiple Washington D.C.-local productions. Since graduation, he has been a part of numerous productions up and down the east coast, including The Blacklist (2013), Michael Pare helmed Amazon Prime film Painkiller (2021), Evil Lives Here (2016), and a commercial for Liberty Tax Service. His work has been seen on NBC, Amazon Prime, the Discovery Channel, AMC, National Geographic, MTV, online, and in multiple film festivals across the country.
Alexander Perotto is an actor, known for Il testimone invisibile (2018), Amore 14 (2009) and Suburra - La serie (2017).
Alexander Petrov is an actor, known for Disaster (2003) and Shark Zone (2003).
Alexander Petrov was born in a small town Pereslavl-Zalesskiy, Russia. During school years he played for the national football team. After leaving school he entered the University of Pereslavl the Faculty of Economics. During his studies he took part in cultural events of the city: KVN (Game show - Club of Funny and Inventive People), Student Council, a theatre studio «Anterpise» under Veronika Ivanenko's direction. At the Theatre Festival in the town Pohvistnevo (Samarskiy region) he met the teachers from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS) at workshops. After the Festival he left the University of Pereslavl and moved to Moscow to become a student of GITIS (Theatre Academy), the class of Leonid Heifetz in 2008. Since the second year he has begun acting in films. His first role was in TV-show «Voices» directed by Nana Jorjadze, an Oscar nominee in 1997. His first leading role that brought him first success was in TV-series Poka tsvetet paporotnik (directed by Evgeniy Bedarev) in 2012. While studying in GITIS he starred in 10 films. Right after graduating from GITIS he was accepted to the Moscow Theater «Et Cetera» under Alexander Kalyagin's direction. He played Graziano in Shylock («The Merchant of Venice») on the touring stage of Riga Russian Drama Theater. Five months after, he was invited to Ermolova's Moscow Theater run by Oleg Menshikov to rehearse Hamlet directed by Valeriy Sarkisov, premiered in December, 2013. «Hamlet» has been the most sold-out performance in the theater ever since. In the end of 2014, the head of Moscow Pushkin Theater - Evgeniy Pisarev and director Vladimir Mirzoyev offered him a role of Lopakhin in «Cherry Orchard» by Chekhov. In 2015 he played the lead in Fartsa TV-series - one of the first Russian TV-series ever streamed on Netflix. Also he played a charming police officer Grisha Izmailov in TV-series Politseyskiy s Rublyovki v Beskudnikovo (2017) (directed by Ilya Kulikov) viewed by millions and got him famous nationally. In November 2016 he created his first one-man dramatic show TOBEBORNAGAIN that was always a sold out show until its closure. In 2017 he starred in Prityazhenie by Fedor Bondarchuk which had an outstanding success in Russia (box office - more than 18 million USD). The film was released worldwide. Gogol' (2017), where he also played the lead - russian famous writer Nikolay Gogol, became the first TV-series in the world screened in cinemas. It won an award at the festival of the Indie Gathering International Film Festival and was awarded at the Accolade Global Film Competition in the «Award of Excellence» category. In 2017 he starred in his first international movie - «Anna» - a film by Luc Besson, released in 2019. During the next few years he starred in a number of movies that topped the box office in Russia and were released worldwide. In summer 2020 during the world pandemic he starred in his second international project «Man of god» filmed in Greece. Prizes and Awards:
Alexander Pfleger was born on August 9, 1982 in Pointe-Claire, Québec, Canada. He is known for Volition (2019), Vein's Appetite (2019) and Bella Ciao! (2018).
Alexander G. Piñeiro is an Actor & Director, known for Dr. Death (2021), FBI (2019) and Street Justice: The Bronx (2017) Born and raised in New York City, Alex grew up in the era of 90/00s Cartoons, Comic Books and Hip Hop while being raised as a child of both a Musician and a Model/Artist, he has a keen understanding for the creative arts, including writing and storytelling. He began to study filmmaking when he was 18 years old, wrote/directed children's plays at a non-profit after-school program at the age of 19 and earned his University B.A. in Film Production at 24. He has been studying and practicing the craft since.
Alexander Pobutsky is known for The Blacklist (2013), The Games We Play (2014) and Ghosts in the Machine (2014).