#Alex p. draper series#
Awardsįor Wolff's work on The Naked Brothers Band series and film, he obtained a Broadcast Music, Inc. The reading raised funds for non-profit charities including Mount Sinai Medical Center. Wolff played Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and Warren Straub in This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. In 2020, Wolff participated in Acting for a Cause, a live classic play and screenplay reading series, created, directed and produced by Brando Crawford.
He made his directorial debut with 2019's The Cat and the Moon, which he also wrote and starred in. In 2018, Wolff starred in the supernatural horror film Hereditary.
In 2016, he had a supporting role in the comedy sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 and played terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the drama Patriots Day, about the Boston Marathon bombing. In 2015, he starred in the indie drama Coming Through the Rye. Wolff later appeared in the comedy film The Sitter (2011) and starred alongside Brendan Fraser in the independent film HairBrained (2012). He also starred in his playwriting What Would Woody Do? at The Flea Theater-which was directed by his mother-and the HBO medical drama In Treatment, both in 2010. Troop Mom and the USA police-procedural, comedic television drama Monk, both in 2009.
#Alex p. draper movie#
Wolff made a cameo in the Nickelodeon TV movie Mr. In 2007, he portrayed the young boy in the Fall Out Boy music video " The Take Over, The Breaks Over". The show released two soundtrack albums and the song "Crazy Car" ranked #83 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. He contributed lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation for both the film and series their father produced and supervised the music. It was commissioned by Nickelodeon as the pilot to the television series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009) which was also created, produced, written and directed by his mother. Wolff began his acting career at the age of 6 in the 2005 musical comedy film The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, written and directed by his mother. Wolff is a maternal grandson of venture capitalist and civic leader William Henry Draper III, a nephew of venture capitalist Tim Draper, a cousin of actress Jesse Draper, and a great-grandson of banker and diplomat William Henry Draper Jr. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian. He is the younger brother of actor and musician Nat Wolff. Wolff was born in Manhattan, New York, to actress and writer Polly Draper and jazz pianist Michael Wolff. Wolff made his directorial debut with the drama film The Cat and the Moon (2019). His other acting roles include My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), and Hereditary (2018).
Wolff focused his career on film roles, portraying Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Patriots Day (2016) and John "Derf" Backderf in My Friend Dahmer (2017). The brothers also co-starred in their mother's comedy-drama film Stella's Last Weekend (2018). Subsequent to the conclusion of the Nickelodeon series, Wolff and his older brother formed a duo called Nat & Alex Wolff, and released the albums Black Sheep (2011) and Public Places (2016). Wolff and his brother released two soundtrack albums for the series, The Naked Brothers Band and I Don't Want to Go to School, which were co-produced by their father Michael Wolff. He first gained recognition for starring alongside his older brother Nat in the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band (2007–09), which was created by the boys' mother Polly Draper. Alexander Draper Wolff (born November 1, 1997) is an American actor, singer, and musician.