Alex Karpovsky Biography

Karpovsky grew up in Newton Massachusetts the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He pursued a DPhil (PhD) in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford but dropped out after two years. On Marc Maron's WTF podcast Karpovsky said his time at Oxford was probably the best two years of my life.
His award-winning debut feature The Hole Story earned him a slot in Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include Woodpecker (SXSW Film Festival 2008) Trust Us This Is All Made Up (SXSW Film Festival 2009) Rubberneck (Tribeca Film Festival 2012) and Red Flag (LA Film Festival 2012) the latter two of which were released as a double feature in New York City's Lincoln Center Theater. Last year he directed an episode of HBO's Girls which will air this spring.
Karpovsky also collaborates with Teddy Blanks. Known together as Spielbergs they have co-directed numerous music videos and commercials as well as a segment for The New Yorker Presents an upcoming Amazon show.
As an actor he plays Ray Ploshansky in the HBO comedy series Girls and has portrayed characters in films that have been featured at Sundance Cannes SXSW Berlinale Los Angeles & Tribeca film festivals. Karpovsky also appears in the last two Coen Brothers films - Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail Caesar! which was released in February 2016.

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