Sharon Alexander is a film, television, and theatre actor. In 1980, at the age of 18 he appeared in Ze’ev Revach’s film, Growing Pains, which marked his big screen debut. In the years that followed, Alexander studied at the Beit Zvi School for the Performing Arts. Then, in 1989, his big break came when he landed the lead role of ‘Rafa’ in Uri Barabash’s One of Us; a part that won him a Best Actor award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. 1992 marked Alexander’s second award win when he took home a Best Supporting Actor Ophir award for his role in Assi Dayan’s critically-acclaimed Life According to Agfa.
In the 1990s and noughties, Alexander was one of Israeli film’s most prolific, highest-profile stars. Highlights of his film credits include The Day we Met (Sam Firstenberg, 1990), Cup Final (Eran Riklis, 1991), The Deserter’s Wife (Michal Bat-Adam, 1992), Amazing Grace (Amos Guttman, 1992), Tel Aviv Stories (Ayelet Menahemi and Nirit Yaron, 1992), White Night (Arnon Zadok, 1995), Chronicle of Love (Tzipi Trope, 1998), Urban Feel (Jonathan Sagall, 1998), A Five Minute Walk (Itai Lev, 2001), Pituy (‘seduction’) (Eran Riklis, 2002), Ben’s Biography (Dan Wolman, 2003), Sof Shavua be-Galil (‘a weekend in the Galilee’) (Moshé Mizrahi, 2008), Homeport (Erez Tadmor, 2016), The Road to Where (Michal Bat-Adam, 2016), and The Electrifiers (Boaz Armoni, 2019).
When he’s not in front of a camera, Alexander is a permanent fixture on a variety of Israeli theatre stages, including Israel’s national Habima Theatre, the Cameri Theatre, and Beit Lessin Theatre. Highlights of his television career include the series Shabatot VeHagim (‘weekends and holidays’), Reds, Telenovela Ba’am (‘Telenovela Inc.’), Hatsuya (‘split’), The First Family, The Greenhouse, and many more.
Alexander was formerly married to actress Smadar Kilchinsky.