User:A3cypreana/Alex Waldmann

Alex Waldmann is a young English actor, from London. He is married to director Amelia Sears.

Career
After completing his training at LAMDA, Waldmann began his career playing the role of Simon Gasgoyne in The Real Inspector Hound at the Westhill Theatre in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Since that time he has played a large number of roles in regional theatre.

A break through came in Waldmann's career when he landed the role of Troilus, in Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida, at the Barbican in 2008. The play received positive reviews, and went on to tour in Europe after finishing its run in London.

Waldmann's greatest success so far came in 2009 when when he played Sebastian in Twelfth Night; a Donmar West End production at the Wyndhams Theatre with, among others, Derek Jacobi. It was for this role that Waldmann received an Ian Charleson Award Commendation.

That same year, Waldmann stayed working with Donmar on his next production, playing the part of Laertes, opposite Jude Law in Shakespeare's Hamlet. During this production Waldmann had the opportunity to display his stage fighting skills during the lengthy sword play with Law. Reviews for the play were excellent, and the play itself gained global attention even before moving to Broadway. Waldmann himself did not go with the rest of the cast to Broadway, but instead remained at home in order to attend his wedding to director Amelia Sears.

Next, Waldmann went on to play the part of Joe, in Shraddha, by Natasha Langridge, at the Soho Theatre. The play was directed by Artistic Director Lisa Goldman. The synopsis of this play states: "The Games spell eviction for the Romany Gypsies. 17 year-old Pearl Penfold is one of them. As the bulldozers close in, Pearl falls in love with Joe, a boy from the local estate. Can Joe prove himself to Pearl and her family before they are gone forever?"

Most recently, in early 2010, Waldmann has worked with Blake Ritson and Bertie Carvel in Patrick Hamilton's Rope, at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, directed by Roger Michell. He played the role of Charles Granillo, one of two young men who attempt to get away with the perfect motiveless murder. This play was once made into a movie of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock, and was said to be inspired by the real-life murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924 by University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.