Alden Ehrenreich

Birthday: 22 November 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA

Height: 173 cm

Alden Ehrenreich 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 starred as Ethan Wate in the film adaptation of the novel _Beautiful Creatures (2013)_. He then played the stepson of Cate Blanchett in the Woody Allen - directed drama film Blue Jasmine (2013). In 2016, Ehrenreich became more widely known for his co-leading role as Hobie Doyle in the Coen brothers film Hail, Caesar! (2016), alongside a cast that included Josh Brolin and George Clooney.On May 5, 2016, Ehrenreich was cast as Han Solo, with the film following Solo's early life before the events of Star Wars (1977). Show less «

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whet...Show more »

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with. Show less «

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world th...Show more »

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to. Show less «

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impa...Show more »

I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do. So I really want to be a part of those movies that say something good to a lot of people. Show less «

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They ...Show more »

Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or stupid. So that's what I'm careful about - making sure I'm part of something that is saying something that I think is valuable in the world of people, not necessarily in the world of art. Show less «

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be ...Show more »

I haven't worked enough to worry about getting typecast, but I do as a film lover didn't want to be working with the bad guys. I didn't want to be making a movie I thought was contributing to a lower base of movies that I just didn't think were helping people, really. Show less «

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like t...Show more »

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure. Show less «

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a...Show more »

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting. Show less «

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.