Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is an English-American actor, director, screenwriter. He is best known for costarring with Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), with Robert Barron, Terry Camilleri, Clifford David, Al Leong, Rod Loomis, Dan Shor, Tony Steedman, Jane Wiedlin, Bernie Casey, George Carlin, Hal Landon Jr., Amy Stock-Poynton, J. Patrick McNamara, John Karlsen, Diane Franklin, Kimberly LaBelle, Clarence Clemons, Martha Davis, and Fee Waybill; Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991), with William Sadler, Joss Ackland, Annette Azcuy, Sarah Trigger, Pam Grier, Landon, Stoch, Chelcie Ross, Roy Brocksmith, and Carlin; and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), with Kristen Schaal, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Anthony Carrigan, Erinn Hayes, Jayma Mays, Holland Taylor, Kid Cudi, Sadler, Stotch, Landon, Beck Bennett, and Jillian Bell.
He is also known for his role in Joel Schumacher‘s vampire film The Lost Boys (1987), with Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes. Other films of the 1980s include Death Wish 3 (1985), with Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, and Martin Balsam; Ivan Passer’s Haunted Summer (1988), with Philip Anglim, Laura Dern, Alice Krige, and Eric Stoltz; and Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989), with Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis,Judge Reinhold, and John Hawkes.
Other acting roles include a cameo in The Borrowers (1997), with John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Celia Imrie, Mark Williams, Hugh Laurie, and Bradley Pierce; Grand Piano (2013), with Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Tamsin Egerton, and Kerry Bishé; Blue’s Big City Adventure (2022), with Josh Dela Cruz, Traci Paige Johnson, Steve Burns, Donovan Patton, BD Wong, Ali Stroker, Taboo, Phillipa Soo, and Steven Pasquale; Destroy All Neighbors (2024), with Jonah Ray, Kiran Deol, Randee Heller, Pete Ploszek, Jon Daly, Thomas Lennon, Kumail Nanjiani, and Phil Hendrie; Absolute Dominion (2025), with Désiré Mia, Fabiano Viett, Patton Oswalt, Julie Ann Emery, Andy Allo, and Alok Vaid-Menon; and a voice role in Smurfs (2025), with Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Jimmy Kimmel, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Maya Erskine, Kurt Russell, and Goodman.
He made his directorial debut co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the independent film Freaked (1993), with Randy Quaid, Sadler, Megan Ward, Michael Stoyanov, Bobcat Goldthwait, Mr. T, and Brooke Shields. He also directed the films Fever (1999), with Henry Thomas, David O’Hara, Teri Hatcher, and Bill Duke; Smosh: The Movie (2015), with Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, Jenna Marbles, Grace Helbig, Harley Morenstein, Jillian Nelson, Brittany Ross, and Michael Ian Black; and Adulthood (2025), with Josh Gad, Kaya Scodelario, Billie Lourd, and Anthony Carrigan. He’s also directed various episodes of TV series and documentaries over the years.
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- NYU Sight & Sound Project (1984) – co-directed with Tom Stern, actor – short
- Squeal of Death (1985) – co-directed with Tom Stern, co-writer, actor – short
- Death Wish 3 (1985) – directed by Michael Winner
- The Lost Boys (1987)** – directed by Joel Schumacher
- Medium Rare (1987) – directed by Paul Madden
- Haunted Summer (1988) – directed by Ivan Passer
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) – directed by Stephen Herek
- Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) – directed by Percy Adlon
- Aisles of Doom – short
- Bar-B-Que Movie (1989) – director, actor – aka Entering Texas – short
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) – directed by Peter Hewitt
- Meals on Wheels (1991) – co-directed with Tim Stern, co-writer, actor – short – made for The Playboy Channel’s Inside Out late night anthology series
- Freaked (1993) – co-directed with Tom Stern, co-writer, actor
- Basic Values: Sex, Shock & Censorship in the 90’s (1993) – directed by David Jablin
- The Borrowers (1997)* – directed by Peter Hewitt
- Fever (1999) – director, writer, actor
- Ben 10: Race Against Time (2007) – director, actor – TV movie
- Ben 10: Alien Swarm (2009) – director, voice – TV movie
- Downloaded (2012) – director – documentary
- Grand Piano (2013) – directed by Eugenio Mira
- Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road (2015) – director – documentary
- Smosh: The Movie (2015) – director, actor
- Anyone Can Quantum (2016) – director, writer – short
- Relatively Free (2016) – director, writer – documentary short
- Trump’s Lobby (2017) – director – short
- The Panama Papers (2018) – director, writer – documentary
- In Search of Darkness (2019) – directed by David A. Weiner – himself – documentary
- Showbiz Kids (2020) – director, wrier, producer – documentary
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)* – directed by Dean Parisot
- Zappa (2020) – director, wrier, producer – documentary
- In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020) – directed by David A. Weiner – self – documentary
- In Search of Tomorrow (2022) – directed by David A. Weiner – self – documentary
- Blue’s Big City Adventure (2022) – directed by Matt Stawski
- The YouTube Effect (2023) – director, writer, producer – documentary
- Destroy All Neighbors (2024) – directed by Josh Forbes
- Absolute Domination (2025) – directed by Lexi Alexander
- Adulthood (2025) – also director
- Smurfs (2025) – directed by Chris Miller
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