Alex Winter
Actor, film director, screenwriter
Alex Winter is a British-American actor, film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. However, his acting career dates all the way back to his childhood, when he spent several years performing on Broadway with co-starring roles in The King & I, Peter Pan, and the American premiere of Simon Gray's Close of Play at the Manhattan Theater Club. He then completed NYU film school and went on to have starring roles in several other feature films, including the Warner Brothers smash hit, The Lost Boys and Percy Adlon's Rosalie Goes Shopping.
In 2000, Winter wrote and directed Fever, released by LionsGate Films. In 2013, Winter returned to the screen in Grand Piano, directed by Eugenio Mira. 2013 also saw the release of Winter’s VH1 Rock Doc Downloaded, the story of Napster. The feature documentary premiered at SXSW and earned worldwide critical acclaim at theatrical and festival screenings. Winter’s follow-up, the multiple award-winning documentary Deep Web, had its world premiere in 2015 at SXSW followed by a broadcast premiere in the U.S. on the Epix network alongside a global festival tour.
Winter now has two new documentary features; The Panama Papers for the Epix Network, and Trust Machine for Breaker and Futurism Studios. His current project is titled Zappa; the first all-access documentary on the life and times of Frank Zappa. The Kickstarter campaign for this project was the highest funded documentary in crowdfunding history.
The Common Good hosted Winter on February 12, 2019: Screening and Discussion of The Panama Papers. Moderated by Stephanie Ruhle, Winter spoke alongside Kevin Hall and Robert Friedman at the event.
Twitter: @Winter
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