Overview
Adam Alexi-Malle is an Italian actor, singer, dancer and musician.
Life and career
Alexi-Malle was born in Siena, Italy. His father is from Italy (Sardinian) and his mother is Palestinian-Spanish. They emigrated to London, England first, and later to the United States.
As musician, he began performing at the age of 9, intent on a career as a concert pianist and violinist having trained with Dorothy DeLay and Raphael Bronstein and at the Conservatoire de Paris, the Moscow Conservatory, the Juilliard School and the American Ballet Theatre. In the early 1990s, following a course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, he began his acting career.
He has appeared in such films as Bowfinger, The Man Who Wasn't There, Hidalgo, Celebrity and Failure To Launch and on television in numerous guest-starring roles including The Sopranos, The West Wing, Alias and 24, and on stage in the Tony Award-winning/nominated Broadway productions of Titanic and The Threepenny Opera. He starred opposite Sam Rockwell and Cara Seymour in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere of Mike Leigh's Goose-Pimples with The New Group theatre in New York City garnering nominations as Outstanding Featured Actor with both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards.
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