Alexander Cook(III)
- Actor
Alexander Cook is an American actor who was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and grew up in
Baltimore, Maryland. He began his professional acting career in 1975 at
Baltimore's Center Stage. He studied acting at the Carnegie-Mellon
University School of Drama, graduating in 1980. As a repertory
stage actor, Cook worked for several companies over the following nine
years, including Pittsburgh's City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre,
Metropolitan Stage Company and Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. In
New York, he joined the Riverside Shakespeare Company for a number of
productions, and originated the role of Schumann in "Carnavale"
off-Broadway. He played major roles in almost half of Shakespeare's
canon, including Cassius in "Caesar," Angelo in "Measure for Measure,"
Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and
Caliban in "The Tempest." Cook left the theater for the seminary in
1988 and served as a pastor in mostly urban congregations for just
over twenty years, returning to the acting profession in June of
2011. Now primarily a film actor, he has a appeared in many independent and major studio productions.
He is married to Elizabeth and has one son, Ian.
