Biografia

"Discovered" by Steven Spielberg at the Bar Mitzvah of a friend of Spielberg's daughter.

In 2009, he co-founded the theater/film company "The Collectin" with Zoë Worth.

Last name is pronounced "air-ren-rike", and means "rich in honour" in German.

Alden's ancestry is seven eighths Ashkenazi Jewish and one eighth British Isles (the latter from a paternal great-grandmother). His Ashkenazi ancestors came to the U.S. from Russia, Austria, Bohemia, Hungary, and Poland. Alden was raised in Reconstructionist Judaism, and had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

He is named after Field of Dreams (1989) director Phil Alden Robinson who is a close friend of his parents.

I feel about romance the same way I do about a vocation; it's a calling.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

I'm an actor because I love movies, and always have loved movies. I'm a film buff.

When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.

For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.