David Alpay: biography and filmography

David Alpey is a Canadian actor who began with such films and TV shows as “Ararat”, “Wild Card”, “Catastrophe Day 2: End of the World” and others. The addiction to medical activity did not prevent him from revealing himself as an actor, which proves him filmography. In the article we will get acquainted with the brief biography of the actor and with his work in film and television.

Biography

David Alpey (photo below) was born in 1980 in Toronto (Canada), but moved to New York as a child. He studied neurology at Earl Haig Secondary School, then studied at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, which includes several professional medical schools. And he completed his master's degree in the history of medicine, received at the University of Toronto in 2005.

Carier start

Despite a strong craving for knowledge in the field of medicine, David Alpey associated his career with the film industry. His formation as an actor began during his studies at the University of Toronto, when he got the main role in the historical drama Atom Egoyan's "Ararat" (2002), and two years later starred in the second season of the comedy drama Lynn Marie Latham "Wild Card" (2003- 2005).

In 2005, the actor received a supporting role in the comedy series Susan Coyne and Bob Martin “Sling and Arrows” (2003-2006). In the same year, he starred in the four-hour television science fiction drama Dick Lowry “Disaster Day 2: The End of the World” (2005), which describes the events taking place during the deadly seven-point hurricane that threatens the world. And in 2006 he got into the main cast of Barry Levinson’s political satire “Man of the Year”, in the center of the plot of which is the host of the political show Tom Dobbs, whose image was taken from a real person - an American comedian, screenwriter and director John Stewart.

The Tudors and Borgia

In 2007, David Alpay starred in 10 episodes of the comedy series Ron Murphy and Ron Oliver's Paid Watch. Played by Mark Smeaton, Queen Anne Boleyn family musician, in two seasons of Mark Hurst’s historical television series The Tudors (2007-2010). He played the role of one of the main characters in the comedy drama "The Unthinkable", shot by Mary McGuckian in 2008. And from 2011 to 2012, he played Calvino Pallavicini, the groom of Lucretia Borgia, in 12 episodes of Neil Jordan's serial series drama "Borgia" (2011-2013).

The actor received a supporting role in 2012 in the television drama Philip Noyce "American Realities", which tells about the life of the legendary fashion designer Robert Soulter. As professor of Atticus Shane, a specialist in magic and supernatural phenomena, he appeared in the fourth season of the fantasy drama of the CW channel “The Vampire Diaries” (2009-2017), the plot of which is based on the eponymous series of books by Lisa Jane Smith. And James Lynch, one of the scientists struggling with the pandemic of infertility by creating human embryos, played in the post-apocalyptic series of the Lifetime cable channel Lottery (2014).

Christmas in Quantico

In 2015, the actor tried on the image of David Manning, a participant in the competition for making figures from ice, in David McKay’s melodrama “Ice Sculpture of Christmas”. In 2015 and 2016 in the role of Duncan Howell, a hacker of an organization called The Unknown, appeared in Joshua Safran’s television drama Quantico Base (2015-2016). And in 2016, Jay Lander and Mick Wright presented their project “They're Watching” (2016) - a film starring David Alpey, where he played the role of Greg Abernathy, a member of a film crew who arrived in remote countryside to shoot a new episode of the popular television show .

The actor received one of the main roles in the melodrama of Marita Grabyak “Ringing of Bells” (2016). In the role of a key character appeared in the comedy drama Alex Wright's “Christmas for the Writer” (2017), based on the eponymous best-selling book by Richard Paul Evans. In addition, David Alpey will appear in two more projects. This is the detective Peter Lynch Birdland (2018) and the drama Michelle Walle Prodigals, whose release date has not yet been set.