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Alex Karpovsky is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer and film editor. He is best known for playing Ray Ploshansky on the HBO comedy-drama series Girls.
Karpovsky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He pursued a DPhil in visual ethnography at the University of Oxford, but dropped out after two years. On Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Karpovsky said his time at Oxford was "probably the best two years of my life."
His award-winning debut feature, The Hole Story, earned him a slot in Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include Woodpecker (SXSW Film Festival, 2008), Trust Us, This Is All Made Up (SXSW Film Festival, 2009), Rubberneck (Tribeca Film Festival, 2012), and Red Flag (LA Film Festival, 2012), the latter two of which were released as a double feature in New York City's Lincoln Center Theater. Last year he directed an episode of HBO's Girls, which will air this spring.
Alex is a common name used in multiple languages. In English, it is usually a diminutive of the male given name Alexander, or its female equivalent Alexandra or Alexandria. Aleck or Alec is the Scottish form of Alex. The East European male name Alexey (Aleksei, Alexis, Aleksa) is also sometimes shortened to Alex. It is a commonly used nickname in Spanish for Alejandro, Alexandro, Alejandrino and Alexandrino, and related names like Alexa and Alexis.
Lena Dunham (/ˈlinə ˈdʌnəm/ LEE-nə DUN-um; born May 13, 1986) is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls (2012–present).
Dunham was born in New York City. Her father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter, and her mother, Laurie Simmons, is an artist and photographer, and a member of the Pictures group, known for her use of dolls and doll-house furniture in her photographs of setup interior scenes. Her father is Protestant and her mother is Jewish; Dunham has described herself as feeling "very culturally Jewish, although that's the biggest cliché for a Jewish woman to say”.
She has a younger sister, Grace, a 2014 graduate of Brown University, who appeared in Dunham's first film, Creative Nonfiction, and starred in her second film, Tiny Furniture. The sisters were raised in Brooklyn, New York and spent summers in Salisbury, Connecticut.
Dunham attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where she met Tiny Furniture actress and future Girls co-star Jemima Kirke. She attended The New School for a year before transferring to Oberlin College, where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in creative writing.
Jemima Kirke (born 26 April 1985) is a British-born American artist and actress best known for her role as Jessa Johansson on the television series Girls. She made her feature-length debut in the independent film Tiny Furniture, as a favor for friend Lena Dunham, although her actual film debut was in the indie short film Smile for the Camera.
Born in London to English parents, Kirke was raised in New York City. She is the daughter of Simon Kirke, the former drummer of the rock bands Bad Company and Free. Her mother is Lorraine (née Dellal) Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a vintage boutique in New York City that supplied a number of outfits for the television series Sex and the City. Her character Jessa wore a wedding dress from Geminola in the season finale of the first season of Girls; also, earlier in her career, she was featured along with her sisters in a fashion piece in Teen Vogue in which they wore clothing from the store.
Her father is of English and Scottish descent and her mother is Jewish. Her maternal grandfather, Jack Dellal, was a British businessman of Iraqi Jewish descent, and Kirke's maternal grandmother was Israeli. Kirke has two sisters, Lola Kirke and Domino Kirke, the first of whom is also an actress. She is a cousin of curator Alexander Dellal and model Alice Dellal.
Supporting Characters is a film directed by Daniel Schechter. It was written by Schechter and Tarik Lowe. It had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 20, 2012. The film follows two New York film editors trying to balance their personal lives while reworking a film.
Dan Schechter: "When I started, I just wanted to make a film, a really good film, for under $50,000, and that was the main goal (and we ended up incredibly close to that number). The editing thing was an arbitrary choice at first. This film was about two best buds and their respective relationships, and we just needed to give them some career to do together so they could bitch at work to one another. So I chose editing because I had some good experiences I could draw from, and perhaps we could get away with not being a "film about making films” because, really, that storyline is about specifically being an editor and what that day job is like."
Schechter and Lowe based the semi-autobiographical film on incidents from their personal lives, crafting a simultaneously offbeat and naturalistic New York story. Schechter's own experience as an editor is evident in the script, which blends intimate relationships with humorous details of life in an editing room.
Alex Karpovsky and Marc are enemies on the fourth season of the HBO series Girls. But in this conversation, they bond instantly over OCD, separation anxiety, karaoke and gratitude. Alex also talks with Marc about the films he’s written and directed, and about the early morning hangover that introduced him to Lena Dunham. Tip jar through PayPal.com email = maximzubov55@gmail.com
Alex Karpovsky plays Ray, the cynical guy on our beloved Girls, but you might also recognize him as the mooch from the other Lena Dunham joint, Tiny Furniture. Anyway, please allow him to guide you in the dubious prospect of staying friends with an ex and spying on your BF. If you have a question for a Grown Person, please send it to youaskedit@rookiemag.com and write "Ask a Grown Man" or "Ask a Grown Woman" in the subject line, accordingly. This post is generously sponsored by HBO's Girls Season One on Blu-ray™, DVD, & Digital Download. The content is produced by Rookie.
Fashion blogger Ally Betker takes actor/director Alex Karpovsky (of Lena Dunham's 'Girls') to Steven Alan in Tribeca, Manhattan, to pick out a fall outfit. She learns he's "a picky little bitch" who likes to wear his own clothes on set.
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Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Supporting Characters Official US Release Trailer #1 (2013) - Alex Karpovsky Movie HD This film is coming to US theaters and nationwide VOD in early 2013. Best friends Nick (Alex Karpovsky, "Girls") and Darryl (co-writer Tarik Lowe) are a New York film editing duo hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director (Kevin Corrigan, Pineapple Express) gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships—with their significant others and each other—reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancée (Sophia Takal, V/H/S), Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingénue (Arielle Kebbel, "90210"); Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing work in between fight...
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Join the cast and creators of the award winning show "Girls," as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three friends, all in their early 20s, together try to make sense of what life has in store for them after living in New York for two years. They're not sure what they want, or who they want it from, and the picture isn't getting any clearer. Hannah thinks she has what it takes to be a successful writer, if only she would write something. She wants a boyfriend without dealing with an actual relationship, and she wants a job without having to work. Marnie is Hannah's best friend, a Type A personality who has a serious boyfriend and an actual job. Jessa is a devil-may-care bohemian whose apparent lack of fear hides her own kind of insecurit...
Join the cast and creators of the award winning show Girls, as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three
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Movies as modern art: Richard Brody moderates a discussion with Miranda July, Alex Karpovsky, Kenneth Lonergan, and Terence Nance. Still haven’t subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub CONNECT WITH THE NEW YORKER Web: http://www.newyorker.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewYorker Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newyorker Google+: http://plus.google.com/+newyorker Instagram: http://instagram.com/newyorkermag Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thenewyorker Tumblr: http://newyorker.tumblr.com The Scene: http://thescene.com/thenewyorker Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene Richard Brody with Miranda July, Alex Karpovsky, Kenneth Lonergan, and Terence Nance Starring: Miranda July
HBO "Girls" actor, director and screenwriter, Alex Karpovsky considers whether information overload has deprived young Americans of meaning or ripened their generation with renewal.
Episode 02: Roundtable interview with CRAIG ZOBEL ("Compliance", "Great World of Sound"), ANTONIO CAMPOS ("Afterschool", "Simon Killer"), RY RUSSO-YOUNG ("You Won't Miss Me", "Nobody Walks"), ALEX KARPOVSKY ("Red Flag", HBO's "Girls") A Shoebox Pictures and Filmmaker Magazine production Moderated by Russell Costanzo (russellcostanzo.com)
The Paris Review and Strand Book Store present the East Coast release party for Object Lessons: The Art of The Short Story, also featuring the release of the magazine's fall issue. Enjoy readings from this fine collection by author Ben Marcus, and actor Alex Karpovsky (of Girls). October 10, 2012
NY1’s Pat Kiernan and Jamie Stelter, one of our favorite morning duos, bring their banter uptown this fall for a new series with special guests dishing on everything we love and love to hate about NYC. The first event in the series features former “Late Show with David Letterman” announcer Alan Kalter, Wall Street Journal and Fox Sports journalist Jason Gay, “Girls” star Alex Karpovsky, and music director Leslie Goshko. Subscribe for more videos like this: http://bit.ly/1GpwawV Facebook: http://facebook.com/92ndStreetY Twitter: https://twitter.com/92Y Tumblr: http://92y.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://Instagram.com/92ndStreetY Vine: https://vine.co/92Y On Demand: http://www.92yondemand.org
A rollercoaster night of questions, coping, and debauchery is what Leigh's 29th birthday party becomes after she and her husband announce that it may be the last time their friends see her alive.
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Justine Browning (Moviehole.net) chats with "Girls" and "Rubberneck" star Alex Karpovsky.
Alex Karpovsky talks about his double feature, "Red Flag" and "Rubberneck."
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Join the cast and creators of the award winning show Girls, as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three . Stars of the hit HBO show Girls, including Jemima Kirke, Zosia Mamet, Jake Lacy and Alex Karpovsky join us alongside executive producer Jenni Konner to .
Join the cast and creators of the award winning show Girls, as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three
Please subscribe my channel Join the cast and creators of the award winning show Girls, as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three
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Join the cast and creators of the award winning show "Girls," as they discuss season 5, which returns February 21st to HBO. An aspiring writer and her three friends, all in their early 20s, together try to make sense of what life has in store for them after living in New York for two years. They're not sure what they want, or who they want it from, and the picture isn't getting any clearer. Hannah thinks she has what it takes to be a successful writer, if only she would write something. She wants a boyfriend without dealing with an actual relationship, and she wants a job without having to work. Marnie is Hannah's best friend, a Type A personality who has a serious boyfriend and an actual job. Jessa is a devil-may-care bohemian whose apparent lack of fear hides her own kind of insecurit...
Shot in Los Angeles, June 2012
Alex Karpovsky and Marc are enemies on the fourth season of the HBO series Girls. But in this conversation, they bond instantly over OCD, separation anxiety, karaoke and gratitude. Alex also talks with Marc about the films he’s written and directed, and about the early morning hangover that introduced him to Lena Dunham. Tip jar through PayPal.com email = maximzubov55@gmail.com
Alex Karpovsky and Marc are enemies on the fourth season of the HBO series Girls. But in this conversation, they bond instantly over OCD, separation anxiety, . Rob McElhenney was fed up with being a struggling actor, so he grabbed a couple friends and made a TV show. Marc talks with Rob about the unlikely success . Michael Cera is concerned he doesn't have enough inner turmoil for a true WTF conversation. If there's anyone who can find some well-concealed demons, . A legendary wrestler, a best-selling author, an advocate for abuse victims, a father of four and a part-time Santa Claus, Mick Foley has led a distinctive life.
Movies as modern art: Richard Brody moderates a discussion with Miranda July, Alex Karpovsky, Kenneth Lonergan, and Terence Nance. Still haven’t subscribed to The New Yorker on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/newyorkeryoutubesub CONNECT WITH THE NEW YORKER Web: http://www.newyorker.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/NewYorker Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newyorker Google+: http://plus.google.com/+newyorker Instagram: http://instagram.com/newyorkermag Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thenewyorker Tumblr: http://newyorker.tumblr.com The Scene: http://thescene.com/thenewyorker Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene Richard Brody with Miranda July, Alex Karpovsky, Kenneth Lonergan, and Terence Nance Starring: Miranda July