Alexander Vlahos
Birthday: Born in 1988-07-30 in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Deathday: Alive
Alexander is a Welsh actor, writer and director, born on the 30th of July, 1988 in Swansea, South Wales. Since graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff in 2009, Alex has had a very successful career across all platforms. As an actor he's most recognised for playing Mordred (BBC One MERLIN), Philippe d'Orléans (Canal+ VERSAILLES) and Dorian Gray (Big Finish). As a director, Alexander won several awards for his debut short film LOLA, which was later acquired by US network Showtime. His BBC Wales short entitled I AM ONE, a 1964 Mods vs Rocker piece set in Porthcawl, Wales, won Best Drama at the It's My Shout Celebration of 20 Years. He's a co-owner of production company CowHouse Films.
TV Credits
Death in Paradise
Character: Max Newman
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie....
Privates
Character: Private Keenan
Privates is a 2013 BBC One drama television series set in 1960 which follows the stories of eight privates who are part of the last intake of National Service, and their relationships with their officers and non-commissioned officers, civilian staff and families. The series was written by Damian Wayling, directed by Bryn Higgins and produced by Nick Pitt. The setting is the fictional North Yorkshire Regiment, although for dramatic effect the characters are from a variety of backgrounds includin...
Versailles
Character: Philippe d'Orléans, aka 'Monsieur'
The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality....
Merlin
Character: Mordred
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot....
Outlander
Character: Allan Christie
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives....
Bang
Character: Dai Llewellyn
Loner Sam's life is transformed when he comes into possession of a gun and starts to break the law. His ambitious policewoman sister Gina is paid to uphold it and makes it her mission to find the owner of the weapon. The family saga plays out against an inquiry into the shooting of a local businessman that raises questions for Sam and Gina about their father's murder when they were young children....
Genius
Character: Maurice Solovine
The life stories of history's greatest minds. From their days as young adults to their final years we see their discoveries, loves, relationships, causes, flaws and genius....
The Indian Doctor
Character: Tom Evans
The Indian Doctor is a British television drama set in the summer of 1963. Produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions, it was first broadcast on BBC One in 2010. The most recent series began on 27 February 2012 and concluded on 2 March. It is a period comedy drama starring Sanjeev Bhaskar as an Indian doctor who finds work in a South Wales mining village....
Movie Credits
Truth or Dare
Character: Luke
A group of friends are lured to an isolated cabin by a promise of heavy partying, only to find themselves in a nightmarish game of truth or dare....
Watchtower
Character: Freddie
When Freddie hits rock bottom Lily offers a way out. Freddie must overcome his demons and allow Lily's love to be his source of strength, or lose the life they share forever....
National Theatre Live: Macbeth
Character: Malcolm, elder son of Duncan
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery....
Irish Wish
Character: Paul Kennedy
Maddie's dream guy is days away from marrying her best friend when a wish for true love made on an ancient stone in Ireland magically alters her fate....
The Confessions of Dorian Gray: Before Your Eyes
Character: Dorian Gray
10 years after first playing the part on audio, Alexander Vlahos brings his immortal portrayal of Dorian Gray to the screen. This 10-minute short film marks a decade of the acclaimed audio series, The Confessions of Dorian Gray, which began in 2012 and imagines a world where Dorian Gray was real and his friendship with Oscar Wilde spawned the notorious novel....
Firecracker
Character: Tom
When a heist goes dramatically wrong, leaving a hostage in peril, an unlikely trio find themselves fighting for their lives and their sanity on bonfire night....
Serial Thriller: The Head Hunter
Character: Herbert
In 1972 the tranquility of a coastal town in California is broken as hitch-hiking girls begin to go missing and corpses start showing up. Welcome to Murder City....