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Alexander Ludwig
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Canadian actor, singer and model
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Impact of Changes in Stock Prices and House Prices on Consumption in OECD Countries
- Demographic change, relative factor prices, international capital flows, and their differential effects on the welfare of generations
- Rentenreform Im Globalen Kontext
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Film & TV
Acting · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Alexander Ludwig (born May 7, 1992) is a Canadian actor. He is known for his roles in The Hunger Games (2012), Grown Ups 2 (2013), and the Bad Boys sequels For Life (2020) and Ride or Die (2024).
Known for
- Killing Castro2026
- Night Comes2026
- Marked Men: Rule + Shaw — Rome Archer2025
- Bad Boys: Ride or Die — Dorn2024
- Earth Abides — Isherwood 'Ish' Williams2024
- Guy Ritchie's The Covenant — Sergeant Declan O'Brady2023
- Heart of Champions — Alex2021
- Night Teeth — Rocko2021
- National Champions — Emmett Sunday2021
- Heels — Ace Spade2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1992
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,113
- Total plays
- 46,490
Tags
Alexander Ludwig (born on May 7, 1992 as Alexander Richard Ludwig) is a Canadian teen actor. He played Will Stanton in the 2007 fantasy film, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. In March 2009, Ludwig appeared in a lead role in Disney's Race to Witch Mountain. Early life Ludwig was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has twin sisters, Natalie and Sophia, and a brother, Nicholas. His mother, Sharlene (née Martin), is a former actress, and his father, Harald Horst Ludwig, is a businessman. <a hre
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,083x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,635x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,543x
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,601x
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Key facts
- Born
- Alexander Richard Ludwig , ( 1992-05-07 ) May 7, 1992 (age 34) , Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
- Education
- University of Southern California (dropped out)
- Occupations
- Actor singer-songwriter
- Years active
- 2000–present
- Height
- 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
- Spouse
- Lauren Dear ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Richard Ludwig (born May 7, 1992) is a Canadian actor and country musician. He first began his career as a child, and then received recognition as a teenager for starring in the films The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007), Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and he is also known for starring as Cato in The Hunger Games (2012).
He is also known for his supporting roles as Shane Patton in Lone Survivor (2013), Christopher "Chris" Ryan in When the Game Stands Tall (2014), Jameson in Final Girl (2015), Dorn in Bad Boys for Life (2020), Alex Singleton in Heart of Champions (2021), Sgt. Declan O'Brady in Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023), Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024) and Rome Archer in Marked Men: Rule + Shaw (2025). He starred as legendary Viking Björn Ironside in the History Channel series Vikings (2014–2020) and had a lead role in the Starz drama series Heels (2021–2023). As a musician, Ludwig released his debut album Highway 99 via BBR Music Group on August 26, 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Ludwig” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.