Alexander Holtmann

Alexander Holtmann is a cinema, television and theatre actor known for his characters in The Chosen, Capadocia, El Señor de los Cielos, Qué bonito amor, Fortuna, La Patrona amongst others.

Alexander Holtmann was born in Bad Segeberg, Germany. He is the third and last child of a Finnish mother and German father. He spent his teenage years in Helsinki, Finland, where he played a small part in the film Kiljusten herrasvaen uudet seikkailut by Polarfilms.

At the age of 20, after finishing his military service as a field medic in the German army, he moved to Los Angeles to attend The Stella Adler Academy under direction of Irene Gilbert. Holtmann graduated with honors in 2002.

In 2005 traveled to Mexico City to play the part of "el gringo" aka "Mochadedos" in the film "Los pajarracos" starred by Miguel Rodarte and Ivonne Montero.

Training

• Acting Technique - Irene Gilbert, Stella Adler Academy
• Scene Study - Charles Waxberg, Stacy Ray
• Script Analisys - Charles Waxberg
• Stage Combat - Louis Roth
• Improvisation - Dan Weisman, Pat Dade
• Sketch - Kent Skov, L.A. Connection
• Shakespeare - Debbie Wastling
• Chekhov - Yevgeni Lazarev

Special skills

• Languages - English, German, Finnish, Spanish, Swedish
• Sports - PADI Rescue Diver, Paintball, Volleyball, Ping Pong, Biking, Squash, Horseback riding
• Martial Arts - Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, Stage combat, Fencing
• Military Training - Field Medic, Ambulance Driver, Automatic and Semiautomatic Weapons
• Drivers License C1E (Truck-European Union)

Currently

Alexander Holtmann interprets Sheldon in the film The Chosen, Mexico - Spain coproduction directed by Antonio Chavarrías, along with an international cast including Alfonso Herrera, Hannah Murray, Henry Goodman, Julian Sands, Javier Godino, Brontis Jodorowsky, amongst others.

Alexander stars in Humboldt, México para los mexicanos a controversial play by Ernesto Anaya Ottone, gives life to Maximilian on the Televisa program Grandes transformaciones de México, also he is working on the movie La gran promesa next to Juan Manuel Bernal.

Film

• La gran promesa - Dir. Jorge Ramírez
• The Chosen - Dir. Antonio Chavarrías
• El sueño del Marakame - Dir. Federico Cecchetti
• Quack - Dir. Eduardo Perea
• Lalito - Contrabajo Films
• The Boy Who Smells Like Fish, Treading Water - Dir. Analeine Cal y Mayor
• In Lak'ech Ala K'in: Code of the Heart - Dir. Catherine Cunningham
• Toda la suerte del mundo - Dir. Alberto Allende
• La Brujula la lleva el Muerto - Dir. Arturo Pons
• Zeviathan - Dir. Iker Orozco
• Los Trashumantes - Dir. Federico Cecchetti
• Matriushkas - Dir. Luciana Solórzano
• Los Pajarracos - Dir. Horacio Rivera, Héctor Hernández
• Kiljusten herrasvaen uudet seikkailut - Polarfilms

Television

• Grandes Transformaciones de México - Maximiliano de Habsburgo - Televisa
• El Hotel de los secretos - Sheamus Rangel - Roberto Gómez Fernández, Televisa
• Amor de Barrio - Walter - Roberto Hernández Vázquez, Televisa
• Coleccionista - Maximiliano de Habsburgo - OPMA
• Alguién más - Maestro Kanvar - Canana Films y Canal Once (Mexico)
• Las trampas del deseo - Humberto - Argos Comunicación y MundoFox
• Fortuna - Luka Gomorov - Argos Comunicación y Cadena Tres
• El Señor de los Cielos - Randy Prescott - Argos Comunicación y Telemundo
• Locked up abroad/Howard Marks - Patrick Lane - National Geographic Channel
• La Patrona - Arthur Kelley - Argos Comunicación y Telemundo
• Que Bonito Amor - Arnold Smith - Salvador Mejía Alejandre, Televisa
• Capadocia 3 - Carter - Argos Comunicación
• Infames - Mayor Richard Davis - Argos Comunicación y Cadena Tres
• La Teniente - Ambassador McKenzie - Azteca 7, TV Azteca
• El Encanto del Aguila - Second Lt. Charles Copp - Canal de las Estrellas, Televisa
• Los Minondo - Partner 1 - Canal Once (Mexico)
• Drenaje Profundo - Michael Hudson young - TV Azteca
• XY 2 - Private secretary - Canal Once (Mexico)

Theatre

• Humboldt, México para los mexicanos - Ernesto Anaya Ottone/ Teatro sin paredes
• Angustia/ A puerta cerrada - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Acreedores - August Strindberg
• Güero en México - stand up Alexander Holtmann
• Choros Criticos - stand up Alexander Holtmann / Blanca Salces
• The Proposal - Anton Chekhov
• The Jubilee - Anton Chekhov
• The Bear - Anton Chekhov
• Pygmalion - G.Bernard Shaw
• Two Gentlemen of Verona - G.Bernard Shaw
• The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• The Nutcracker - E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Platero and Me - Juan Ramón Jiménez
• The Swan Lake - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Don Quijote - Miguel de Cervantes
• Little Red Ridinghood - Charles Perrault
• Cinderella - Charles Perrault
• Sleeping Beauty - Charles Perrault
• Pastorela - Cesar Chavez Belmont
• Instant Comedy Soup - Stella Adler Theatre L.A.
• A little bit of Improv - Studio Theatre L.A.
• IMPROV! - Irene Gilbert Theatre L.A.
• ImproVable Cause - Jewel Box Theatre L.A.
• Sketch & Improv - L.A Connection, Dan Weisman