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Pico Alexander
Born (1991-06-03) June 3, 1991 (age 33)
New York City, New York

Pico Alexander (born June 3, 1991)[1] is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Alexander's stage credits include Our Town,[2] Punk Rock, and What I Did Last Summer.[3]

He has appeared on a number of television series, including The Carrie Diaries, Alpha House, The Following, Blue Bloods, and Orange Is the New Black. He played Esai Morales, the brother of the lead character, in A Most Violent Year (2014), and Sonny Cottler, a Jewish fraternity president, in James Schamus's Indignation (2016), opposite Logan Lerman.

Alexander was raised in Brooklyn, New York.[4] His parents, Magdalena Deskur and cinematographer Lukasz Jogalla, are Polish immigrants. His grandfather was actor Jerzy Jogałła, and his great-grandfather was journalist Jerzy Turowicz.[5][6] His name, "Pico", is a childhood nickname.[7] He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Master". Chimtic.netfirms.com. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  2. ^ "Rutgers Theater Company and George Street Playhouse Present "Our Town" | Mason Gross School of the Arts". Masongross.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  3. ^ "Pico Alexander, Noah Galvin, Kristine Nielsen and More to Lead Signature's WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER". Broadwayworld.com. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/theater/actors-in-punk-rock-tap-into-teenage-alienation.html
  5. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150708142442/http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=006703. Archived from the original on July 8, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ "Aleksander Łukasz "Pico" Jogałła (M.J. Minakowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego)". Sejm-wielki.pl. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  7. ^ "Rising Star Pico Alexander Talks Social Media, Bioluminescence and Taking Risks". Huffingtonpost.com. 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  8. ^ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b74590e4b0d05c56869f40/t/559c0e15e4b0167e53089548/1436290581294/FTR+Presskit+PDF.pdf