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Alex Winter

Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English–American actor, film director, and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill Prestonin the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, and its 2020 sequel Bill & Ted Face the Music.

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 documentaries in the 2010s.

Biography[]

Early life[]

Winter was born in London, England, to a family of Jewish background. His mother is Margaret "Gregg" Mayer, a New York-born American and former Martha Graham dancer who founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s, and his father is Ross Albert Winter, an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe. Winter received training in dance as a child. He has an older brother named Stephen.

When Winter was five, his family moved to Missouri, where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company, while his mother taught dance at Washington University

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Alex Winter is a director, writer, and actor who has worked across film, television, and theater. Entering show business as a child actor, with co-starring roles on Broadway in The King & I and Peter Pan, Winter came to prominence in movies such as Warner Bros’ hit The Lost Boys and the wildly popular Bill & Ted franchise. As a filmmaker, Winter’s narrative features include the cult classic Freaked, for 20th Century Fox and Fever, for Lionsgate, an official selection in the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes.

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Alex Winter

Birth Date

July 17, 1965(1965-07-17) (age 59)

Alexander Ross Winter(born July 17, 1965)[1]is a British-American actor and filmmaker. He played the slacker Bill S. Preston, Esq.in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventureand its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey(1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music(2020). He is also known for his role as Markoin the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys; for co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked;[2][3]and for directing documentaries in the 2010s.

Early life[]

Winter was born in London, England. His mother, Gregg Mayer, is a New York-born dancer who trained with Martha Graham, and founded the first modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s. His father, Ross Albert Winter, is an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe and co-founded the Mid American Dance Company in St. Louis.[4][5]

Winter received training in dance as a child. He has an older brother named Stephen. His father has English ancestry and his moth

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