Alex Williams

Alex Williams is an Australian actor whose first audition after graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts won him the part of Julian Assange in the television film Underground: The Julian Assange Story (2012). He grew up in Sorrento, a northern suburb of Perth, and studied in a specialist arts program at Mount Lawley Senior High School before finishing at St Stephen's School in 2008. Acting alongside Rachel Griffiths and Anthony LaPaglia, he won critical acclaim for that performance. In 2014 he had a supporting part as AJ in the Australian film The Reckoning (2014), and two years later he portrayed the motor racing driver John Harvey in Brock, a miniseries on Network Ten. He played Romeo for Bell Shakespeare that same year. He went on to take the role of the cricketer Shane Warne in Warnie, a two part miniseries broadcast on the Nine network in 2023.