Alden Ehrenreich

Alden Ehrenreich

Actor
|

Life Story

Alden Ehrenreich is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's film Tetro (2009), and appeared in Coppola's subsequent film Twixt (2011).

In 2013, he starred as Ethan Wate in the film adaptation of the novel Beautiful Creatures (2013). He then played the stepson of Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen's drama film Blue Jasmine (2013). In 2016, Ehrenreich became more widely known for his co-lead role of Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! (2016), alongside a cast that included Josh Brolin and George Clooney.

On May 5, 2016, Ehrenreich was cast as Han Solo, in a prequel film that Solo's early life before the events of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).

Family

No info available

 

Trivia

"Discovered" by Steven Spielberg at the Bat Mitzvah of a friend of Spielberg's daughter.
In 2009, he co-founded the theater/film company The Collectin with Zoë Worth.
He is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (his ancestors came from Russia, Austria, Hungary, and Poland). Alden had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
Auditioned for Peter Parker/Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and Harry Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
Last name is pronounced "air-ren-rike".

Personal Quotes 

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.
I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art.

 

Filmography

Signup for Newsletter

Signup for the latest news about Movies & Events and exclusive offers.

Don't worry, we won't spam you. You will be able to unsubscribe with a single mouse click.
Subscribe for Our Whatsapp Updates

Which update you want to receive?