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Alexander Karpovsky (born September 23, 1975)[2] is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls and Craig Petrosian on the Amazon series Homecoming.

Alex Karpovsky
Alex Karpovsky
Born	Alexander Karpovsky (1975-09-23) September 23, 1975 (age 47) Newton, Massachusetts[1]
Education	Boston University (BA) University of Oxford (MA)
Occupation	Actor, writer, film director, producer, film editor

Early life and education

Alex Karpovsky was born in Israel and raised in Newton, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor's degree from Boston University before receiving a master's degree in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford.[1][3]

Career

His 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),[4] the latter two of which were released as a double feature in New York City's Lincoln Center Theater.[5] In addition to these films, Alex has directed episodes of TV, commercials, and music videos.

As an actor, he played 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 appeared in the Coen Brothers' films Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, was a series regular on Amazon's Homecoming, and has a leading role in the NBC/Peacock limited series, Angelyne.[6]

Karpovsky has read hundreds of stories for live and radio audiences, including NPR's Selected Shorts, The Paris Review, The New York Times' Modern Love, n+1, Grand Theft Auto IV, and This American Life.

Filmography

Actor

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Cry Funny Happy	Henry
2005	The Hole Story	Alex
2008	Cubby Knowles	Robert Lincoln
2009	Beeswax	Merrill Graf
2009	Harmony and Me	Mean Man Mike
2010	Bass Ackwards	Vlad
2010	Lovers of Hate	Paul Lucas
2010	Tiny Furniture	Jed
2010	Incredibly Small	Tom
2011	Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same	Rookie Agent
2011	Wuss	Wally Combs
2011	Almost in Love	Sasha
2012	Sleepwalk with Me	Ian Gilmore
2012	Gayby	Peter
2012	Supporting Characters	Nick Berger
2012	Rubberneck	Paul Harris
2012	Marvin Seth and Stanley	Seth Greenstein
2012	Red Flag	Alex
2013	Good Night	Jake
2013	Inside Llewyn Davis	Marty Green
2014	The Foxy Merkins	Merkin Man
2014	Summer of Blood	Jamie
2015	Tired Moonlight	Mike
2015	Possibilia	Rick
2015	Bloomin Mud Shuffle	Chuck
2015	7 Chinese Brothers	Kaminsky
2016	Hail, Caesar!	Mr. Smitrovich
2016	Folk Hero & Funny Guy	Paul Scott
2016	My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea	Drake (voice)
2017	The Vanishing of Sidney Hall	David Bauer
2017	Fits and Starts	Charles
2017	Girlfriend's Day	Styvesan
2018	The Front Runner	Mike Stratton
2018	Being Frank	Ross
2019	The Sound of Silence	Landon
2019	The Return of the Yuletide Kid	Michael
2020	The Ride	Chris
2021	Cryptozoo	David (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012–2015	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Stephen Lomatin	2 episodes
2012–2017	Girls	Ray Ploshansky	42 episodes
2014	Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends	Himself	Television Special
2015	The Show About The Show	Himself	2 episodes
2016	Deadbeat	Jared the Liar	Episode: "Medieval Dead"
2018	Drunk History	Zvi Aharoni	Episode: "Heists"
2018–2020	Homecoming	Craig Petrosian	13 episodes
2020	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Doctor Seiderman	Episode: "The Spite Store"
2022	Angelyne	Jeff Glaser	5 episodes

Music video

Year	Title	Artist(s)
2017	When You Die	MGMT

Video game

Year	Title	Role
2008	Grand Theft Auto IV	The Crowd of Liberty City (voice)

Writer/director

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Network/Festival
2019	Oh Jerome, No	Writer/Director	Episodes 101-108	FXX
2018	Love	Director	Episode 304	Netflix
2016	The New Yorker Presents	Director	Episode 105	Amazon
2016	Girls	Director	Episode 509	HBO
2012	Red Flag[7]	Writer/Director	feature	LA Film Festival
2012	Rubberneck[8]	Writer/Director	feature	Tribeca
2009	Trust Us, This Is All Made Up [9]	Writer/Director	feature	SXSW
2008	Woodpecker [10]	Writer/Director	feature	SXSW
2006	The Hole Story[11]	Writer/Director	feature	Harvard Film Archive

References

External links

• Alex Karpovsky at IMDb

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