Alden Ehrenreich

Alden Ehrenreich began acting at the age of four in various school and summer-camp plays, as well as community children's theater groups. Throughout junior high and high school, Ehrenreich began writing, directing and starring in student films, one of which lead to his discovery by Steven Spielberg, who saw one of the short films at Ehrenreich's friend's bat mitzvah.

25-year-old Ehrenreich attended the prestigious Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University (NYU). While there, he created The Collectin, a group that focuses on the creative process in which films and performances might be built around the specific qualities of an actor. The group created six original plays and five short films during their time at NYU. In January 2015, The Collectin's first feature film, Running Wild, was released.

Early on, Ehrenreich had a distinct vision for the kind of career he could only dream of. That vision came true in 2009 when Ford Coppola made him an offer he couldn't refuse as the lead role in Ford Coppola's semi-autobiographical film Tetro. Ehrenreich spent several months in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shooting the film there.

In 2013, Alden Ehrenreich was seen in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, in which he starred as Alec Baldwin's ivy-league-turned-video-clerk son.  He also starred as Ethan Wate in the Warner Bros. film Beautiful Creatures.

Ehrenreich was in 20th Century Fox's Stoker in the role of Whip–a seemingly kind jock that initially saves Mia Wasikowska's character, India, from the other jocks' insults who eventually attempts to force himself on her.  Prior to this, Ehrenreich played a supporting role in the Focus Features film Somewhere, directed by Sofia Coppola. He then starred in Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt, which also starred Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Ben Chaplin and Elle Fanning.

Ehrenreich has appeared in Cinelou Films' The Yellow Birds, directed by Alexandre Moors, starring alongside Jack Huston, Jennifer Aniston and Tye Sheridan. Ehrenreich played the lead role of Brandon Bartle, the young soldier who has been exposed to the horrors of war in Iraq, and subsequently covers up the violent death of his best friend and bunkmate. After that, Ehrenreich was seen starring in Warren Beatty's film about Howard Hughes and his young protégé.

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