Alex Karpovsky Biography

Fast Facts

• He and the rest of the cast of "Tiny Furniture" were nominated for Best Ensemble Cast at the 2010 Gotham Awards
• At the 2012 Gotham Awards, his film "Red Flag" was nominated for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
• Majored in Visual Ethnography at Oxford University
• Once worked at the service bar in a restaurant called Grendel's
• Quote: "I've found there's only a handful of ways you can even portray a straight man or a nice guy, but there are an infinite number of ways to play a jerk and that versatility, that spectrum, is something that I'm interested in․"
• Quote: "I'm definitely interested in character-driven stories, and one of the things that I think drives character-driven stories is internal conflict․"
• As an actor, he often plays jerks and cynical characters
• The films he writes and directs often explore the hopes and fears of a character who may not always be likeable, and they often deal with failed relationship and anxiety about death
• A fan of the Coen brothers, appearing in their film "Inside Llewyn Davis" was a special experience for him
• Cast himself in his first movie because he was so new to the feature film industry that he knew the film would take him a long time to make and he didn't trust another actor to stick around for that long