Alexi Kaye Campbell

Alexi Kaye Campbell was born in Athens in 1966 as Alexi Komondouros, to a Greek father and a British mother. Having spent his childhood in Greece, he went to America as a young man, graduating from Boston University in English and American Studies. He had a year in New York, waiting tables and taking acting lessons whilst working unpaid for an off-Broadway stage group, moving to London to graduate in acting from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. For fifteen years, he was a jobbing actor including stage performances at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court and the Shared Experience Theatre Group, and TV work such as in Keys to the Car (1999) and Murder in Mesopotamia (2001). In 2008 his play "The Pride", reflecting gay themes, was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London directed by Jamie Lloyd with Bertie Carvel, JJ Feild, Lyndsey Marshal and Tim Steed in the wonderful cast, to critical acclaim, also honored with a Laurence Olivier Award, before transferring to B