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- Birth nameAlexander Karpovsky
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Alex Karpovsky was born on September 23, 1975 in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Folk Hero & Funny Guy (2016), Girls (2012) and Rubberneck (2012).
- His parents are Russian-Jewish immigrants, and his father is a professor of computer engineering at Boston University. Karpovsky says his mother 'doesn't speak a word of English'.
- Raised in Newton, MA, he lives in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY. He studied visual ethnography at the world-famous University of Oxford.
- Originally, the character he plays in Girls (2012) was slated to be called Karnovsky, but was later changed to Ray.
- If I only acted, I feel like I wouldn't have enough creative expression over my own sensibility, and also if I only acted, the notion of surrendering my fate and future to other people is deeply unsettling to me and it would make me uncomfortable.
- I try to preserve whatever balance society has between public and personal life. I never try to eat on the subway. I never try to listen to loud music on the subway.
- If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.
- I'm from Boston, and I get easily overwhelmed in New York, so I go to Boston and stay with my parents for a few months at a time to write, or edit, or just to cry.
- 'Rubberneck' has nothing to do with comedy, nor does it follow comedic people.
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