Pico Alexander

{{Infobox person

|name=Pico Alexander

|birth_name=Alexander Lukasz Jogalla

|birth_date= {{birth date and age|1991|6|3|mf=yes}}

|birth_place=New York City, U.S.

|education=Rutgers University (BFA)

|occupation=Actor

|yearsactive=2009–present

|father=Lukasz Jogalla

|relatives=Janusz Gąsiorowski, Polish Army brigadier general, Jerzy Turowicz Catholic writer, (great-grandfathers)

}}

Alexander Lukasz Jogalla (born June 3, 1991{{cite web|url=http://chimtic.netfirms.com/genealogy/fam00031.html|title=Profile|website=Chimtic.netfirms.com|accessdate=2016-01-30|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150709045205/http://chimtic.netfirms.com/genealogy/fam00031.html|archivedate=2015-07-09}}), known professionally as Pico Alexander, is an American actor.

Early life and education

Alexander Lukasz Jogalla was born in New York City and raised in Park Slope, Brooklyn.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/theater/actors-in-punk-rock-tap-into-teenage-alienation.html|title=Actors in 'Punk Rock' Tap Into Teenage Alienation|first=Alexis|last=Soloski|date=November 20, 2014|accessdate=October 29, 2017|website=The New York Times}} His parents, Magdalena Deskur and cinematographer Lukasz Jogalla, are Polish immigrants from Kraków. His grandfather was actor Jerzy Jogałła, and his great-grandfather was journalist Jerzy Turowicz.{{cite web|url=http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=006703|title=Alexander Jogalla|accessdate=July 7, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708142442/http://genealogia.grocholski.pl/gd/osoba.php?id=006703|archivedate=July 8, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sejm-wielki.pl/b/cz.I000132|title=Aleksander Łukasz "Pico" Jogałła (M.J. Minakowski, Genealogia potomków Sejmu Wielkiego)|website=Sejm-wielki.pl|accessdate=2016-01-30}} He has a younger sister named Klara.{{Cite Instagram |user=klarasitaa |postid=1UC_lbxWsm |title=Happy national sibling day to this idiot #film |date=10 April 2015}}

He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and earned a BFA in acting at Rutgers University.{{cite web|url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b74590e4b0d05c56869f40/t/559c0e15e4b0167e53089548/1436290581294/FTR+Presskit+PDF.pdf|title= For the Record|website=Static1.squarespace.com|accessdate=October 29, 2017}} His stage name, "Pico", is a childhood nickname.{{cite web|url=https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_7503668|title=Rising Star Pico Alexander Talks Social Media, Bioluminescence and Taking Risks|website=HuffPost|date=2015-06-05|accessdate=2020-06-22}}

Career

Alexander's stage credits include Our Town,{{cite web|url=http://www.masongross.rutgers.edu/content/rutgers-theater-company-and-george-street-playhouse-present-our-town |title=Rutgers Theater Company and George Street Playhouse Present "Our Town" | Mason Gross School of the Arts |website=Masongross.rutgers.edu |date= |accessdate=2016-01-30}} Punk Rock, and What I Did Last Summer.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Pico-Alexander-Noah-Galvin-Kristine-Nielsen-and-More-to-Lead-Signatures-WHAT-I-DID-LAST-SUMMER-20150402 |title=Pico Alexander, Noah Galvin, Kristine Nielsen and More to Lead Signature's WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER |website=Broadwayworld.com |date= |accessdate=2016-01-30}}

He has appeared on a number of television series, including The Carrie Diaries, Alpha House, The Following, Blue Bloods, and Orange Is the New Black.

He played Elias Morales, the brother of the lead character, in A Most Violent Year (2014), and Sonny Cottler, a Jewish fraternity president, in James Schamus's Indignation (2016), opposite Logan Lerman. In 2017, he played Trey Wandella in the Netflix Original War Machine and starred as Harry, Reese Witherspoon's character's love interest, in the romantic comedy film Home Again.

In 2018, he was featured in Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, playing Kieran Duffy, a captured member of a rival gang.