# Alexander Holtmann

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**Alexander Holtmann** (born 19 August 1978)[1] is a Finnish-German[2] cinema, television and theatre actor known for his characters in Humboldt in Mexico, [The Chosen](/source/The_Chosen_(2016_film)), [Capadocia](/source/Capadocia_(TV_series)), [El Señor de los Cielos](/source/El_Se%C3%B1or_de_los_Cielos), [Qué bonito amor](/source/Qu%C3%A9_bonito_amor), [Fortuna](/source/Fortuna_(telenovela)), [La Patrona](/source/La_Patrona) amongst others.

## Early life

Holtmann was born in [Bad Segeberg](/source/Bad_Segeberg), West Germany, to a Finnish mother and German father.[3][1]

## Training

- [Acting Technique](/source/Acting) - Irene Gilbert, Stella Adler Academy
- Scene Study - Charles Waxberg, Stacy Ray
- Script Analysis - Charles Waxberg
- Stage Combat - Louis Roth
- Improvisation - Dan Weisman, Pat Dade
- Sketch - Kent Skov, L.A. Connection
- [Shakespeare](/source/Shakespeare) - Debbie Wastling
- [Chekhov](/source/Chekhov) - [Yevgeni Lazarev](/source/Yevgeni_Lazarev)

## Special skills

- Languages - [English](/source/English_language), [German](/source/German_language), [Finnish](/source/Finnish_language), [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language), [Swedish](/source/Swedish_language)
- Sports - [PADI](/source/PADI) [Rescue Diver](/source/Rescue_Diver), Paintball, Volleyball, Ping Pong, Biking, Squash, [Horseback riding](/source/Horseback_riding)
- Martial Arts - [Jiu-Jitsu](/source/Jiu-Jitsu), [Aikido](/source/Aikido), [Stage combat](/source/Stage_combat), [Fencing](/source/Fencing)
- Military Training - [Field Medic](/source/Combat_medic), Ambulance Driver, Automatic and Semiautomatic Weapons
- Drivers License C1E (Truck-European Union)

## Filmography

### Film

- Humboldt, the Gaze of the Explorer - Ana Cruz Navarro
- *La gran promesa* - Dir. Jorge Ramírez
- *[The Chosen](/source/The_Chosen_(2016_film))* - Dir. Antonio Chavarrías
- *El sueño del Marakame* - Dir. Federico Cecchetti
- *Quack* - Dir. Eduardo Perea
- *Lalito* - Contrabajo Films
- *The Boy Who Smells Like Fish*, *Treading Water* - Dir. Analeine Cal y Mayor
- *In Lak'ech Ala K'in: Code of the Heart* - Dir. Catherine Cunningham
- *Toda la suerte del mundo* - Dir. Alberto Allende
- *La Brujula la lleva el Muerto* - Dir. Arturo Pons
- *Zeviathan* - Dir. Iker Orozco
- *Los Trashumantes* - Dir. Federico Cecchetti
- *Matriushkas* - Dir. Luciana Solórzano
- *Los Pajarracos* - Dir. Horacio Rivera, Héctor Hernández
- *Kiljusten herrasvaen uudet seikkailut* - Polarfilms

### Television

- [El Dragón](/source/El_Drag%C3%B3n_(TV_series))- Hans Prinket/ Lemon Studios
- [El Chema](/source/El_Chema) - Lesly Carrol / [Telemundo](/source/Telemundo)
- *[Señora Acero](/source/Se%C3%B1ora_Acero)* - John Floyd - Telemundo
- *Grandes Transformaciones de México* - Maximiliano de Habsburgo - [Televisa](/source/Televisa)
- *[El Hotel de los secretos](/source/El_hotel_de_los_secretos)* - Sheamus Rangel - [Roberto Gómez Fernández](/source/Roberto_G%C3%B3mez_Fern%C3%A1ndez), [Televisa](/source/Televisa)
- *[Amor de Barrio](/source/Amor_de_barrio)* - Walter - Roberto Hernández Vázquez, [Televisa](/source/Televisa)
- *Coleccionista* - Maximiliano de Habsburgo - [OPMA](/source/OPMA)
- *Alguién más* - Maestro Kanvar - Canana Films y [Canal Once (Mexico)](/source/Canal_Once_(Mexico))
- *Las trampas del deseo* - Humberto - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n) y [MundoFox](/source/MundoFox)
- *[Fortuna](/source/Fortuna_(TV_series))* - Luka Gomorov - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n) y [Cadena Tres](/source/Cadena_Tres)
- *[El Señor de los Cielos](/source/El_Se%C3%B1or_de_los_Cielos)* - Randy Prescott - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n) y [Telemundo](/source/Telemundo)
- *[Locked up abroad](/source/Banged_Up_Abroad) /Howard Marks* - Patrick Lane - [National Geographic Channel](/source/National_Geographic_Channel)
- *[La Patrona](/source/La_Patrona)* - Arthur Kelley - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n) y [Telemundo](/source/Telemundo)
- *[Que Bonito Amor](/source/Qu%C3%A9_bonito_amor)* - Arnold Smith - [Salvador Mejía Alejandre](/source/Salvador_Mej%C3%ADa_Alejandre), [Televisa](/source/Televisa)
- *[Capadocia](/source/Capadocia_(TV_series)) 3* - Carter - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n)
- *[Infames](/source/Infames)* - Mayor Richard Davis - [Argos Comunicación](/source/Argos_Comunicaci%C3%B3n) y [Cadena Tres](/source/Cadena_Tres)
- *[La Teniente](/source/La_Teniente)* - Ambassador McKenzie - [Azteca 7](/source/Azteca_7), [TV Azteca](/source/TV_Azteca)
- *El Encanto del Aguila* - Second Lt. Charles Copp - [Canal de las Estrellas](/source/Canal_de_las_Estrellas), [Televisa](/source/Televisa)
- *Los Minondo* - Partner 1 - [Canal Once (Mexico)](/source/Canal_Once_(Mexico))
- *Drenaje Profundo* - Michael Hudson young - [TV Azteca](/source/TV_Azteca)
- *XY 2* - Private secretary - [Canal Once (Mexico)](/source/Canal_Once_(Mexico))

### Theatre

- *Humboldt, México para los mexicanos* - Ernesto Anaya Ottone/ Teatro sin paredes
- *Angustia*/ *A puerta cerrada* - [Jean-Paul Sartre](/source/Jean-Paul_Sartre)
- *Acreedores* - [August Strindberg](/source/August_Strindberg)
- *Güero en México* - stand up *Alexander Holtmann*
- *Choros Criticos* - stand up *Alexander Holtmann* / Blanca Salces
- *The Proposal* - [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov)
- *The Jubilee* - [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov)
- *The Bear* - [Anton Chekhov](/source/Anton_Chekhov)
- *Pygmalion* - G.Bernard Shaw
- *Two Gentlemen of Verona* - G.Bernard Shaw
- *The Taming of the Shrew* - [William Shakespeare](/source/William_Shakespeare)
- *A Christmas Carol* - [Charles Dickens](/source/Charles_Dickens)
- *The Nutcracker* - [E. T. A. Hoffmann](/source/E._T._A._Hoffmann)
- *Platero and Me* - [Juan Ramón Jiménez](/source/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez)
- *The Swan Lake* - [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](/source/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky)
- *Don Quijote* - [Miguel de Cervantes](/source/Miguel_de_Cervantes)
- *Little Red Ridinghood* - [Charles Perrault](/source/Charles_Perrault)
- *Cinderella* - [Charles Perrault](/source/Charles_Perrault)
- *Sleeping Beauty* - [Charles Perrault](/source/Charles_Perrault)
- *Pastorela* - Cesar Chavez Belmont
- *Instant Comedy Soup* - Stella Adler Theatre L.A.
- *A little bit of Improv* - Studio Theatre L.A.
- *IMPROV!* - Irene Gilbert Theatre L.A.
- *ImproVable Cause* - Jewel Box Theatre L.A.
- *Sketch & Improv* - L.A Connection, Dan Weisman

## References

- [http://www.alexanderholtmann.com](http://www.alexanderholtmann.com)
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2319152/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2319152/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)
- [https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderHoltmann.Actor](https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderHoltmann.Actor)
- [http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/2016/05/14/las-travesias-de-humboldt-en-mexico-al-cine](http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/cultura/2016/05/14/las-travesias-de-humboldt-en-mexico-al-cine)
- [http://www.proceso.com.mx/408863/actualidades-teatrales-humboldt-mexico-para-los-mexicanos](http://www.proceso.com.mx/408863/actualidades-teatrales-humboldt-mexico-para-los-mexicanos)
- [http://www.e-xtension.com.mx/index.php/2016/06/01/desmitifican-multiculturalidad-contemporanea-de-mexico-en-el-escenario/](http://www.e-xtension.com.mx/index.php/2016/06/01/desmitifican-multiculturalidad-contemporanea-de-mexico-en-el-escenario/)
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNihmOGRFq4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNihmOGRFq4)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160815231243/http://alairelarevista.com.mx/index.php/en/cinescopio/item/alexander-holtmann-rompe-paradigmas](https://web.archive.org/web/20160815231243/http://alairelarevista.com.mx/index.php/en/cinescopio/item/alexander-holtmann-rompe-paradigmas)
- [http://www.imgrum.net/media/1005869051214949212_5813705](http://www.imgrum.net/media/1005869051214949212_5813705)
- [http://docplayer.es/6289468-Entre-risas-anda-el-juego.html](http://docplayer.es/6289468-Entre-risas-anda-el-juego.html)
- [Article title](https://web.archive.org/web/20170824171839/http://www.humboldtenmexico.com/)

### Notes

1. ["Alexander Holtmann"](https://www.sensacine.com.mx/actores/actor-723161/biografia/) (in Spanish). *[SensaCine](/source/SensaCine)*. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

1. Kilpeläinen, Kia (5 December 2018). ["IL selvitti: He ovat tunnetuimmat elossa olevat suomalaiset ulkomailla"](https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/83ab2634-9b99-43c8-91ef-7e240fc35274) (in Finnish). *[Iltalehti](/source/Iltalehti)*. Retrieved 9 June 2021.

1. Pylvänäinen, Laura (22 June 2018). ["Alexander Holtmann decidió hacer de México su hogar y ahora interpreta a malvados y criminales en la televisión mexicana"](https://finlandabroad.fi/web/mex/actualidad/-/asset_publisher/TV8iYvdcF3tq/content/meksikosta-kodin-loytanyt-suomalaisnayttelija-esittaa-roistoja-ja-rikollisia-valkokankailla-ja-televisiosarjoissa/384951) (in Spanish). *Finland Abroad*. [Ministry for Foreign Affairs (Finland)](/source/Ministry_for_Foreign_Affairs_(Finland)). Retrieved 9 June 2021.

## External links

- [Alexander Holtmann](http://www.alexanderholtmann.com) [Website](/source/Website)
- [Alexander Holtmann](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2319152/) at IMDb

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