Alex D. Linz


Alexander David Linz is an American former child actor who starred in several late 1990s and early 2000s films and television programs. His film roles include Home Alone 3 and Max Keeble's Big Move.

Early life

Linz was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Deborah Baltaxe, an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz, a professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His parents are divorced, and he lived with his mother. He has two younger sisters named Lily Alice and Livia. Linz is Jewish, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the improvisation and sketch comedy group, jericho!. Linz received a master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA in 2017.

Career

Acting

Linz made his acting debut in 1995 on an episode of the television series Cybill. He subsequently appeared in several television productions, played Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1995 for a short period of time, and was cast as the son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in the 1996 film One Fine Day. In 1997, Linz replaced Macaulay Culkin as the lead actor in Home Alone 3, and voiced both a young Tarzan in the 1999 animated film and a human boy named Franklin in the live-action/animated direct-to-video series The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, which was produced by Klasky Csupo for participating McDonald's restaurants from 1998 to 2003.
Linz had several starring roles in 2000s films aimed at younger audiences, including 2001's Max Keeble's Big Move, in which he played the title character, 2002's Race to Space, which received a minor theatrical release, and 2003's Hanukkah-themed made-for-television Disney Channel film Full-Court Miracle, in which he played the lead player in a Jewish school's basketball team. He had a provocative starring role as an eccentric transvestite spelling prodigy with a penchant for fashion in Bruno.
Linz appeared in the comedy The Amateurs, starring Jeff Bridges. He appeared in the 2007 short Order Up as a busboy. His final film role was in the 2007 political film Choose Connor as Owen Norris, alongside Steven Weber.

Non-acting work

Linz was a lead science instructor at Galileo Learning, a pedestrian programs intern at the City of Los Angeles, a strategy and planning department intern at Metrolink, and a legal researcher for Smith & Baltaxe, LLP.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games