- He is based in Athens, Greece / Europe and lives there most of his time. [May 2010].
- February 2008: He tried to move to Paris in 2007, but he couldn't live without the Greek sunny weather and returned to Greece.
- Alex and actress Christina Balanos, who permanently lives in Paris, are first cousins.
- Was in relationship, with actress Luana Balominou. Their romance began, when they met professionally, to prepare the shootings of a music video, him as the director and her as the set designer. Funny conclusion that though they got together, the music video got canceled and was never shot. [Feb. 2011 - May 2012].
- His youngest brother Markos Karmios, is into film-making as well.
- He never finished his BA on Film Studies at the NY College. He dropped college, after having his first real experiences participating a film crew in an actual movie set. While announcing to his teachers, that he was leaving, he said: " Learning film-making, is out there in the field, in doing and experiencing and not in how-to books... " [2006].
- Alexander was originally the cinematographer of the movie The Light Touch (2021), when it first had begun shootings back in September of 2014 in the Greek island Mykonos, with a completely different crew, besides the director. Unfortunately, sometime within the first week of principal photography, the main executive producer had a serious conflict with the "hard to work with" director of the movie Robert MacLean and fired him, so the movie got dropped, until 4 years later that it finally got finished with a different crew. But, not everything was ruined.. Actress Tess Spentzos who was then starring in the movie, became very good real-life friends with Alexander since the shootings and now both of them are already in the process of developing a new film project together, this time with Alexander in the director's chair, as well as him attempting for his first time to co-star with Tess. Stay tuned..
- He is the grandchild of renowned Cypriot writer - author Christos Karmios. He was a great chess player and he taught Alexander how to play chess, at the age of 5.
- He has a son with singer Jessica Bell [October 2019].
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