Adam Alexi-Malle

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Adam Alexi-Malle
Born
Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
  • dancer
  • musician
Years active1995–present

Adam Alexi-Malle is an Italian actor, singer, dancer and musician.

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Life and career

Alexi-Malle was born in Siena, Italy. His father is from Italy (Sardinian) and his mother is Palestinian-Spanish. They emigrated to London, England first, and later to the United States.

As musician, he began performing at the age of 9, intent on a career as a concert pianist and violinist having trained with Dorothy DeLay and Raphael Bronstein and at the Conservatoire de Paris, the Moscow Conservatory, the Juilliard School and the American Ballet Theatre. In the early 1990s, following a course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, he began his acting career. [1]

He has appeared in such films as Bowfinger , The Man Who Wasn't There , Hidalgo , Celebrity and Failure To Launch and on television in numerous guest-starring roles including The Sopranos , The West Wing , Alias and 24 , and on stage in the Tony Award-winning/nominated Broadway productions of Titanic and The Threepenny Opera . He starred opposite Sam Rockwell and Cara Seymour in the critically acclaimed [2] Off-Broadway premiere of Mike Leigh's Goose-Pimples with The New Group theatre in New York City [3] garnering nominations as Outstanding Featured Actor with both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. [4]

Alexi-Malle has stated that he is fluent in Italian, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. [5] He has additionally worked as a voice artist for Late Night with David Letterman , Family Guy and has done voice-overs in video games such as The Bourne Conspiracy , Diablo 3 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations . He is a staff audiobook narrator for Penguin Random House Audio having voiced numerous titles including, "The Second Empress", "Letters from Skye", "The Anatomy Lesson", "I Will Never See The World Again", "White Bird - A Wonder Story", and "POV - Point of View".

Alexi-Malle is the founding owner and CEO of the multimedia production company JP²A²M:worldwide Entertainment Group which includes the subsidiary production entities, Siena Films and virtuosoTV as well as the theatre company, Blistering Muses. [6]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Night Falls on Manhattan Democratic DelegueUncredited
The Preacher's Wife Robbery WitnessUncredited
1997 The Peacemaker Arab Sheik in AirportUncredited
1998 Celebrity DS WorkerUncredited
1999 Bowfinger Afrim
2000Midnight GospelLionelShort Film
2001Peroxide PassionShorty
The Man Who Wasn't There Jacques Carcanogues
A.I. Artificial Intelligence Crowd Member
2004 Hidalgo Aziz
2006 Failure to Launch Mr. Axelrod
2012 Treasure Buddies AmirDirect-to-video film
2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman French Peasant (voice)

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 The Sopranos College RepresentativeEpisode: "The Happy Wanderer"
Judging Amy Health Store OwnerEpisode: "Not with a Whimper"
Gideon's Crossing Dr. AnkhEpisode: "Father Knows Best"
2001 The West Wing President's TranslatorEpisode: "The War at Home"
2002 Undeclared Professor BurgEpisode: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs"
2003 Alias BernardEpisode: "The Two"
2005 24 Joseph Fayed2 episodes
2007–2008 Go, Diego, Go! Jamal the Camel (voice)2 episodes
2010 Nova MahroosEpisode: "Building Pharaoh's Ship"
2011 Family Guy Adzin (voice)Episode: "Stewie Goes for a Drive"

Video games

YearTitleRoleNotes
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay Izz-udeen / Waman / ShurikCredited as Adam Alexi Malle
2008 The Bourne Conspiracy Additional voices
2011 Assassin's Creed: Revelations Constantinople Vendor / Assassin Recruit / Civilian
2012 Diablo III Additional Voices
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Additional Voices
Call of Duty: Black Ops - Declassified Russian Leader
2014 Diablo III: Reaper of Souls Additional Voices

Theatre

Discography

Awards and nominations

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References

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  5. "ON STAGE AND OFF; Another Reason To Await Spring". The New York Times. 9 January 1998. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  6. 1&1 WebsiteBuilder. "worldwide Entertainment Site". JP2A2M. Retrieved 13 June 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)