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Ehrenreich in 2016
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Born |
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich November 22, 1989 Los Angeles, California, United States |
Alma mater | New York University |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2005–present |
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich (US pronunciation: /ˈɛrənraɪk/; born November 22, 1989) is an American actor. He made his feature film debut in Francis Ford Coppola's independent film Tetro (2009) and appeared in Coppola's subsequent film Twixt (2011). In 2013, he appeared in Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine, Park Chan-wook's Stoker and starred in Richard LaGravenese's Beautiful Creatures. In 2016, he starred as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers comedy Hail, Caesar! and as Frank Forbes in Warren Beatty's Rules Don't Apply. In 2018, he will star as Han Solo in an as of yet untitled Star Wars spin-off film revolving around the character's younger years.
Ehrenreich was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Sari (née Newmann), an interior designer, and Mark Ehrenreich, an accountant. He is named after the director Phil Alden Robinson. His stepfather, Harry Aronowitz, is an orthodontist. Alden is from a Jewish family (from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland), and was raised in Reconstructionist Judaism.