Alden Ehrenreich

Alden Ehrenreich (birthname: Alden Caleb Ehrenreich) has been a favorite of many major filmmakers, starting with Francis Ford Coppola, who cast him opposite Vincent Gallo in the noirish Tetro (2009), with Klaus Maria Brandauer and Carmen Maura, and earning $2.6 million. After appearing in an uncredited role in Sofia Coppola’s Los Angeles drama, Somewhere (2010), Ehrenreich reunited with Coppola for the commercially failed Twixt (2011), with Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, and Ben Chaplin, and premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.

Writer-director Richard LaGravenese cast Ehrenreich in the lead opposite Alice Englert in the romantic gothic, Beautiful Creatures (2013), which failed at the box office despite a cast including Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, Emmy Rossum, and Emma Thompson. Ehrenreich joined Korean filmmaking master Park Chan-wook for his English-language debut, Stoker (2013), produced by Tony and Ridley Scott and co-starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, and Jacki Weaver, but earning only $12 million on its $12 million budget.

Alden Ehrenreich then joined Woody Allen for his Oscar-winning Blue Jasmine (2013), starring Cate Blanchett (who won the Best Actress Oscar), Sally Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Bobby Cannavale, and Michael Stuhlbarg, and proving to be a big hit for Sony Pictures Classics with $99 box office. Ehrenreich received nearly a dozen award nominations for his performance in the Coen Brothers’ Hollywood comedy, Hail, Caesar! (2016), with Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Ralph Fiennes, Jonah Hill, Scarlett Johansson, Francis McDormand, Tilda Swinton, and Channing Tatum, grossing a healthy $63.6 million globally.

For Warren Beatty (as director-writer-producer-star), Alden Ehrenreich co-starred with Beatty (as Howard Hughes) and Lily Collins in Rules Don’t Apply (2016), with Annette Bening and Matthew Broderick, but the movie bombed at the box office with a poor $3.9 million return. After starring in the Iraq War film, The Yellow Birds (2017), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and co-starred Tye Sheridan, Toni Collette, Jason Patric, Jack Huston, and Jennifer Aniston, Ehrenreich starred in director Ron Howard’s first Star Wars foray, Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), with Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandiwe Newton, and Paul Bettany, but was one of the few Lucasfilm production to fail to turn a profit, with a disappointing $393.2 million global box office.

After co-starring with Phoebe Dynevor in writer-director Chloe Domont’s highly acclaimed drama, Fair Play (2023), premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, Alden Ehrenreich co-starred in Elizabeth Banks’ dark comedy, Cocaine Bear (2023), with Keri Russell and Ray Liotta. Ehrenreich co-starred in one of the most anticipated movies of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s atom bomb epic, Oppenheimer (2023), with Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Josh Hartnett, and Kenneth Branagh.