Years active 2003–present Name Alex Karpovsky | Role Director Education University of Oxford | |
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Full Name Alexander Karpovsky Occupation Actor, writer, film director, producer, film editor Nominations Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You Movies and TV shows Girls, Tiny Furniture, Rubberneck, Red Flag, Inside Llewyn Davis Similar People Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Christopher Abbott, Grace Dunham, Adam Driver | ||
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Alexander "Alex" Karpovsky (born September 23 1975) is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls.
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- Dp 30 red flag writer director star alex karpovsky
- Alex karpovsky wants arizona to vote for bernie
- Life and career
- Personal life
- References
Alex karpovsky wants arizona to vote for bernie
Life and career
Karpovsky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts. He attended Boston University where he graduated in 1997 as a part of the University Professors Program. He pursued a DPhil (PhD) in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford, but dropped out after two years. On Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Karpovsky said his time at Oxford was "probably the best two years of my life."
His award-winning debut feature, The Hole Story, earned him a slot in Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include Woodpecker (SXSW Film Festival, 2008), Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (SXSW Film Festival, 2009), Rubberneck (Tribeca Film Festival, 2012), and Red Flag (LA Film Festival, 2012), the latter two of which were released as a double feature in New York City's Lincoln Center Theater. In 2016 he directed an episode of Girls.
Karpovsky also collaborates with Teddy Blanks. Known together as Spielbergs, they have co-directed numerous music videos and commercials as well as a segment for The New Yorker Presents, an Amazon show.
As an actor, he plays Ray Ploshansky in the HBO comedy series Girls and has portrayed characters in films that have been featured at Sundance, Cannes, SXSW, Berlinale, Los Angeles & Tribeca film festivals. Karpovsky also appears in the last two Coen Brothers films - Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, which was released in February, 2016.
Karpovsky has read hundreds of stories for live and radio audiences, including NPR's Selected Shorts, The Paris Review, The New York Times' Modern Love, n+1, Grand Theft Auto IV, and This American Life. In 2015 he read Etgar Keret's memoir The Seven Good Years, published by Penguin Random House.
Personal life
In March 2016, Karpovsky endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.