
Alex Ross Perry
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Alex Ross Perry is an American filmmaker and actor. He has written and directed a series of feature films centred on unconventional characters and rife with the anxieties and joys of creation. His films have been internationally acclaimed at film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Berlin, and others. He is most known for Listen Up Philip, which premiered in 2014 at the Sundance Film Festival and later won the Special Jury Prize at the 2014 Locarno International Film Festival, and Her Smell (2018), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and screened at the New York Film Festival the same year. Besides being a prolific independent filmmaker with many of his fiction feature films internationally recognised, he also experimented with documentary, non-fiction, and music. His documentary-fiction hybrid, Pavements (2024), is an experimental musical biopic concert film that premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
Known for
Credits

Pavements (2025)
as Self (uncredited)

An Almost Christmas Story (2024)
as Dave The Dog (voice)

Joshy (2016)
as Adam

Somebody Up There Likes Me (2013)
as Pizza Customer #1

At the Video Store (2019)
as Self

Tiny Furniture (2010)
as Ashlynn's Friend

Kim's Video (2023)
as Self

Paul Schrader: Man in a Room (2020)
as Self

90 Years of the Music Box Theatre (2019)
as Self

7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
as Hats at Cars

Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes (2020)
Actor

The Color Wheel (2012)
as Colin

The Last Film (2013)
as Alex

Happy Life (2011)
as Donald

Green (2011)
as Phillip Roth expert

Honky Kong (2021)
as David

Impolex (2009)
as Voice: "It's a dud!"

Devil Town (2015)
as Detective Ira Goldberg

Not Getting Stoned with Alex Ross Perry (2019)
as Himself

Alex Ross Perry (2014)
as Self





