Alex Shaffer (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alex Shaffer (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alex Shaffer (born August 23, 1993) is an American actor, best known

for his role as Kyle Timmons, a troubled kid and a wrestling prodigy,

in the 2011 film Win Win.Shaffer was born in Hunterdon County, New

Jersey and raised in Raritan Township. He was a sophomore at Hunterdon

Central Regional High School when he was cast as a young wrestler in

the movie Win Win after a classmate tipped him off about the auditions

to the film that required an athlete-wrestler. Shaffer had been a

successful high school wrestler, winning the 2010 New Jersey State

Wrestling Championship at 119 lb. as a sophomore, but his wrestling

career ended when he broke his L-5 vertebra.Shaffer’s screen debut

earned raves. Roger Ebert described his acting as "effortlessly

convincing." Shaffer, whose hair was bleached for the role, "plays the

reserved and withdrawn Kyle to perfection," said film critic Brandon

Fibbs. As for the film director Tom McCarthy, he said: "I knew that if

the kid we cast had never wrestled, he wasn’t going to be able to

fake it, at least not at the level we wanted Kyle to be. The great

thing about Alex is, he also evokes all the qualities of a 16-year-old

kid. He just felt so real to me. We really put him through the wringer

on this movie and he just kept getting better and better." In an

interview with PBS he said: "You know, this monosyllabic shut-down

character we all know and love so much, which is very difficult to

bring to the screen actually, as you run the risk of the character

being flat, but he [Alex Shaffer] found a way in his directness to be

very charming".After the success of Win Win, Shaffer decided to pursue

acting professionally. In 2013 he starred alongside Kristen Bell and

Martin Starr in the Sundance indie The Lifeguard. He also stars in the

director/writer Kimberly Levin's independent film, Runoff. He played

the character Squirrel in the 2015 film We Are Your Friends, starring

Zac Efron and directed by Max Joseph. At the same time, he briefly

filled in as a guest host on the MTV series Catfish: The TV Show in

place of Joseph.
Alex Shaffer (actor) Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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