Biography
American actor Alex Heinz Roth was born on July 16, 1995 in Merrill, Wisconsin. His mother, Mary Roth, is a nurse and is of Scottish, Irish, and German decent. His father, Heinz Roth, is a farmer, and is a first generation American moving from Switzerland when he was 8 years old. The two are divorced. As his father is native to Switzerland, Alex has dual citizenship with the United States, and Switzerland.
Alex grew up working on his family farm which, although difficult and stressful at times, he credits for many of his best qualities such as work ethic. Through his youth, he has worked several jobs including: farm hand, machinery operator, grocery store employee, heavy equipment operator, and handyman.
Alex wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember and competed in a talent scouting competition when he was 10 years old. At the time, his family was unable to relocate, so Alex decided to continue his passion the best he could from his hometown. That year, he took on the lead role of Aladdin in The Central Wisconsin Children's Theater production of Aladdin.
From his arrival to Los Angeles in 2014 through 2016, he worked numerous Television, Film, and Commercial projects. Some of his projects include Guest and Co-Starring roles on Television shows such as Discovery's "How We Got Here", Investigation Discovery's "Blood Relatives" and "Tabloid", and BBC's "Alice and the Most Dangerous Band in the World." These projects brought Alex the opportunity to work with many Emmy, Telly, and Leo award winning creators. His film credits for this period include critically acclaimed "The Outer Rim," dark thriller "The Breakup" and romantic drama "Romance." Of these performances, his leading role in "Romance" earned him a Best Actor award from the USC graduate degree film program.
Most recently, Alex can be seen in his series regular role portraying "Elijah" a complicated and emotionally confused high school student in the critically acclaimed Amazon TV dramatic series "Back Stabber". or as "Gregory" a manipulative executive in short film "The Storm."
Alex maintains a sense of humility and gratitude, and remains grounded through his extensive involvement with the non-profit Team Rubicon. Team Rubicon is a first response disaster relief organization, comprised primarily of military veterans. Alex has deployed nationally and internationally many times offering his helping hand whenever and wherever possible.
