Alexander Chaplin

Alexander Chaplin is an actor and a native New Yorker who began performing at six in a local staging of The King and I. Encouraged by his parents, who were a novelist and a jazz musician, he acted in school plays, community theater, and a drama camp in the Catskills, and at sixteen he took the role of Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs at a Westchester theater. Chaplin entered Juilliard in 1989 and appeared there in productions including The Winter's Tale, Women and Wallace and Ah Wilderness! After his first year he was cast in a three-part ABC Afterschool Specials production, The Mall, directed by John Rubinstein. Following graduation he starred in the Public Theatre's Petrified Prince, a production directed by Harold Prince. Before Spin City (1996), he appeared in the premiere of Homicide: Life on the Street opposite Andre Braugher, and he made his film debut as Bobo in The Basketball Diaries (1995).