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Jordan Alexander-Riley (born 30 June 1992 Manchester, England) is a British actor.

His father is German-English and his mother is American-EnglishA native of Manchester, he has played numerous parts in UK Soaps. Prior to ganing some roles in TV programs such as BBC's Waterloo Road, ITV's Coronation Street and drama series called The Street Alexander-Riley has won the Cannes Film Festival Coup De Coeur award in May 2010 with The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior as well as being a student at Manchester School of Acting where he's been a student for the last 5 years.

Alexander-Riley also has a younger brother called Jason Michael Riley aged 8 born 2004 who plays for Everton_F.C. football team.

Current and Future Projects in Film & Television
Alexander-Riley filmed a short film by DKP Films called The Mess Hall of an Online Warrior, In March 2010 the new short girtty film was accepted into the Wood Green Film Festival, London, United Kingdom. The short film is about a mother quietly struggling to deal with her aggressive teenage son (Ben) who refuses to do anything except play online computer games. An honest and darkly comic story about compulsion, mishaps, loneliness and family redemption produced by Daniel P.K Symth. The film was shown with great positive deedback from critics. A few days after beeing accepted at in the London's festival it was to be screened at South_by_Southwest SXSW Film Festival in Austin, United States which again recieved great critic feedback.

However, the next big thing to come his way, was when the film was selected out of thousands of entries to be screened at the Cannes_Film_Festival from 12th May till 23rd May 2010. The film has already caused a number of interests within the industry and a few Canadian TV distributors who are looking to make it a bigger project.

In June 2010, a few week before prior to his 18th Birthday, he found out that the film that was screened at the Cannes Film Festival he had won the Coup De Coeur award. Plus a few days later, the film had one a commendation award at the Buxton Film Festival awards.

A recent interview from New York Times about the film being praised with excellence at Cannes Film Festival stated; When I heard it was accepted into the Cannes Film Festival, I just knew this would be the start of something and I can't wait to see where my career will go.

Rhys Jones: Documentary
In 2011 Alexander-Riley was cast by Title_role to play one of the gang members that was never identified into the shooting of Murder_of_Rhys_Jones which occured in 2007 in Liverpool United Kingdom when he was shot in the neck by 18-year old youth, Sean Mercer. He played the part of Boy X who was assigned to the gang by Mercer and was told to 'get rid' of the weapon that was used to shoot Rhys Jones. The documentary aired late autumn on ITV as well as being screened on Crime_%26_Investigation_Network.

Travelling to America/Scholarship
In Summer 2010 before heading to University of Leedsto study a Psychology degree, Alexander-Riley headed over to the New York, United States and Los Angeles, United States to try and gain some professional acting as well as trying to promote himself and the film Mess Hall to casting agents.

However, when Alexander-Riley was over in the states, he heard about an acting scholarship at the New York Film Academy that was offering free acting scholarships to 7 people. He began to do his research and got in contact with a director at the school who told him the castings scouts left the previous day before travelling to London, United Kingdom to conduct auditions for the scholarship. The director got him an audition back in London for the academy and had two days to get back to London before they left. After being in the states for over a week and meeting some casting directors who had arranged meetings with him had to cancel and get the next flight back to the United Kingdom. This caused the media to get wift of the news with being in the Newspapers, TV and Radio for a full 2 week.

When arrived back in London he had just a few hours before he met with the casting scouts and was told to prepare a short monologue and a 2 minute and a half script of a well known play. Alexander-Riley met with the scouts and succesfully was invited back to another 2 auditions in London. In September 2010 After appearing via satalite with one of New York Film Academy campus at Universal Studios Los Angeles he was offered a full 3 year scholarship to study at either the New York campus or the Los Angeles campus.

Alexander-Riley took the scholarship straight away which didn't start till the following month, October 13th 2010. Whilst waiting to hear back from the casting scouts in the states, he decided not to go University of Leeds but instead opted to go University of Manchester to study his chosen Psychology degree. When he found out he had a major decision even though he accepted the scholarship whether he was going to stay at University or jet off to either New York or Los Angeles to study acting. It almost took over a full month to decide his decision as he wanted to be absoloute certain that he was making the right decision, not just for him, but for his career and future.

On October 6th 2010 just before a week before studying at the school and a day before he was jetting off, Alexander-Riley turned down the scholarship. He thanked New York Film Academy for giving him the chance and offering the scholarship. In a statement with Manchester Evening News he stated; '' It was the toughest decision I had ever had to make and it wasn't one I took easy. I was greatful for the academy offering me the scholarship but when it came down to it, I knew I always wanted to go University regardless of my acting career and furthermost I wanted to be a professional actor over here, United Kingom before trying to break the US market. The academy understood my decision and was very reasonable. They wish me all the luck and maybe one day I'll study at the school''.

In August 2011 he went back over to the states to finally meet up with casting directors he originally setup meetings with the year before. He is still looking for the right casting management to represent him. Whilst over there he bumped into the film director Judd Apatow directing films such as Knocked Up, The_40-Year-Old_Virgin, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Superbad_(film). Judd gave him some advice on trying to become an actor in the US and techniques and rumoured had it they exchanged phone numbers.