Pico Alexander

Pico Alexander
Born (1991-06-03) June 3, 1991
New York City, New York

Pico Alexander (born June 3, 1991)[1] is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Alexander's stage credits include Our Town,[2] Punk Rock, and What I Did Last Summer.[3]

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 Esai 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.

Alexander was raised in Brooklyn, New York.[4] His parents, Magdalena Deskur and cinematographer Lukasz Jogalla, are Polish immigrants. His grandfather was actor Jerzy Jogałła, and his great-grandfather was journalist Jerzy Turowicz.[5][6] His name, "Pico", is a childhood nickname.[7] He graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School.[8]

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