Alex D. Linz

Linz was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Deborah (née Baltaxe), an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz, a professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2] He has two younger sisters, Lily Alice and Livia. His parents are divorced, and he lived with his mother. The family is Jewish, and Alex had a bar mitzvah ceremony.^[3]

He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, during which time he was the lead singer of a garage band, The Fez Armada.^[4]

After his career as a child actor, Linz attended college at University of California, Berkeley, where he became involved in a campus improv group, Jericho!.^[5] He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011.^[6] He earned his master's degree in urban and regional planning at University of California, Los Angeles in 2017.^[7][8]

Linz made his professional acting debut in 1995 on an episode of the television series Cybill.^[9] 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.^[9]

He was cast as the son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in the 1996 feature film One Fine Day.^[10] His big breakthrough came in the 1997 Christmas film Home Alone 3, but the film received a lukewarm response due to lacking a reprising cast that represented the McCallister family of the previous blockbuster Home Alone feature films.^[11] In 2001, Linz played the title character in the Disney film Max Keeble's Big Move, which received mixed reviews and was a box-office failure.^[12][13]

As of 2023^[update], Linz is working as a legal researcher in Los Angeles, California, and he is also a lead science instructor.^[14]