Alex Winter
Alex Winter was born in London, England, United Kingdom on July 17th, 1965 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 58, Alex Winter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is a British-American actor, film producer, and screenwriter best known for his role as "Bill S. Preston, Esq." Bill & Ted's Best Adventure, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey in 1991, and a planned sequel Bill & Ted's Face the Music, a 1989 film.
He is also known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys; co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked; and directing documentary films in the 2010s.
Early life
In London, England, Winter was born. Margaret "Gregg" Mayer, a New York-born American and former Martha Graham dancer, formed a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s, and his mother, Margaret "Gregg" Mayer, was a teacher at the University of New York. Ross Albert Winter, his father, was an Australian who performed with Winter's mother's company. As an infant, Winter began training in dance. Stephen is Stephen's older brother. His father has English roots, and his mother, who is of Ukrainian Jewish descent, is of Ukrainian Jewish descent.
His family moved to Missouri, where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company, and his mother taught dance at Washington University in St. Louis, when Winter was five years old. In 1973, the two were divorced.
Winter and his mother lived in Montclair, New Jersey, in 1978. During this period, Winter began performing on and off Broadway, commuting to New York City. He describes his New Jersey experience as positive.
Winter was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1983 after graduating from Montclair High School. Tom Stern, a fellow aspiring filmmaker, met him at New York University. Both actors worked on a number of 16 mm short films and received honors for their achievements.
Personal life
Winter married Sonya Dawson, with whom he had a son in 1998. The two women were then divorced. Ramsey Ann Naito was married in 2010 by the artist. They have two children.
Winter has dual British and American citizenship.
Winter revealed on February 2, 2018 that an older man molestied him at age 13 while he was on Broadway. Winter refused to identify his perpetrators, but reported he was dealing with PTSD since the attack, saying, "I had intense PTSD for many, many years, and that would bring wretched havoc on you."
Career
Winter spent many years on Broadway as an actor, including supporting roles in The King and I, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, and Simon Gray's Close of Play at the Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere.
Winter dropped out of NYU film school before his senior year, and he and Tom Stern moved out to Hollywood, where the two produced and directed a number of short films and music videos. Winter found work as an actor, with roles in such films as The Lost Boys and Rosalie Goes Shopping.
Winter co-starred with Keanu Reeves in Bill S. Preston's hit comedy The Great Adventure, which was a role he reprised in 1989's Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.
Following Bill & Ted's success, Winter, and creative collaborators Tom Stern and Tim Burns were hired to produce a mock comedy show for MTV. The result, 1991's The Idot Box, was a huge success for the network, but budgetary issues kept them from filming additional seasons, and it was scrapped after six episodes. Winter, Stern and Burns accepted a $12 million contract from 20th Century Fox to produce their own feature film, which was 1993's Freaked. Despite encouraging reviews from The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly, Freaked went on to become a cult favorite on festivals, TV, and DVD, and Entertainment Weekly named it on their list of Top Ten Comedies of the Nineties.
Winter did not return to direct until 1999, when he directed Fever. The film was shown at film festivals around the world, including Official Selection in the Director's Fortnight at Cannes. The film was praised by New York Daily News, who referred to it as a "claustrophobic mind bender." Winter has a shady aura that rivals Roman Polanski.
Winter produced the live-action version of the hit Cartoon Network series Ben 10, which debuted in November 2007 and attracted the highest audience numbers in Cartoon Network history. Ben 10: Alien Swarm, the filmmaker's sequel, premiered on Cartoon Network in November 2009 and attracted over 16 million viewers in its premiere weekend. He was contracted to write the screenplay for Howard Stern's directed remake of Rock 'n' Roll High School in 2008. In 2010, he was contracted to direct a 3D-remake of the 1987 horror film The Gate, which was supposed to be released in 2011.
Downloaded, the winter 2012 VH1 rock doc, received international recognition at theatrical and festival screenings. Multiple award-winning 2015 documentary Deep Web debuted in the United States at SXSW and a broadcast premiere on the Epix network in the United States as part of a global festival tour. On September, 2015, the film debuted as the nation's top documentary.
He appeared in the thriller Grand Piano starring Elijah Wood and John Cusack in 2013.
Relatively Free, Winter's short documentary about journalist Barrett Brown's release from jail in 2016. In 2017, another short documentary, Trump's Lobby about President Donald Trump, was followed by another short documentary.
In 2018, Winter released two documentaries, The Panama Papers, about the Panama Papers and The Story Of Blockchain, which premiered in Los Angeles on November 16, 2018. Winter began writing a biographical biography of rock guitarist and composer Frank Zappa in July 2015. Winter's film proposal was accepted by the Zappa Family Trust in a public forum. Zappa's debut in November, 2020, was not the first documentary with access to his archives, but it was also the most funded documentary in crowdfunding history, thanks to Kickstarter.
In April 2011, Winter's Bill & Ted co-star Keanu Reeves announced that a new installment of the film series was in production; for the majority of the 2010s, it was in production. Bill S. Preston, Esq., has returned to life in Winter. Bill & Ted Face the Music, a film that was announced on August 28, 2020; Reeves' description of the plot as, "They're supposed to write a song to save the world but they haven't done it."
Winter is also a vocal advocate for technology and privacy rights.
Winter said he began devoting a significant amount of his time to the internet not just because he liked technology but also because "I found this community." Winter adored the prospect of large numbers of anonymous users discussing a variety of topics in an anonymous environment. "I was really surprised then." "It seemed to be the beginning of something," the narrator said.
He chastised media companies and news outlets for exaggerating how many people use Napster for digital piracy. "Napster was a major threat to the power structure," Winter said.
Winter's interest in technology, the Internet, and privacy inspired him to create Downloaded, a 2012 documentary film about internet file sharing and Napster, as well as the 2015 film Deep Web, which is about the Silk Road, bitcoin, and the dark web.