Alexander Cook

Alexander Cook is an American actor who began his professional career in 1975 at Baltimore's Center Stage, the city where he grew up after being born in Charleston, West Virginia. He trained at the Carnegie-Mellon University School of Drama, graduating in 1980, and spent the next nine years as a repertory stage actor with companies including Pittsburgh's City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, the Metropolitan Stage Company and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. In New York he joined the Riverside Shakespeare Company and originated the role of Schumann in the off-Broadway production Carnavale. His stage work took in major roles in nearly half of Shakespeare's canon, among them Cassius, Angelo, Malvolio, Oberon and Caliban. He left the theater in 1988 and returned to acting in June 2011, working mainly in film in both independent and major studio productions.