Alex Karpovsky

Alexander Karpovsky (born September 23, 1975) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor. He is best known for his role as Raymond "Ray" Ploshansky on the HBO comedy drama series Girls (2012–2017), for which he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He is also known for his roles as Craig on the Amazon Prime Video psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018–20) and Jeff Glaser on the Peacock drama miniseries Angelyne.

Early life and education Alex Karpovsky was raised in Newton, Massachusetts.

Career His debut feature, The Hole Story, earned him a slot in Filmmaker magazine's 25 new faces of independent film. His subsequent feature-length films include Woodpecker, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up, Rubberneck, and Red Flag, the latter two of which were released as a double feature at New York City's Film at Lincoln Center. In addition to these features, Karpovsky has directed numerous episodes of TV shows as well as commercials and music videos.

As an actor, he played Ray Ploshansky in the HBO comedy series Girls, and also appeared in the Coen Brothers' films Inside Llewyn Davis and Hail, Caesar!, was a series regular on Amazon's Homecoming, played Dr. Seiderman on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and had a leading role in the Peacock limited series, Angelyne.

As a writer and producer, he has developed projects at Amazon, Comedy Central, FX, TBS, and Hulu.

As a voice performer, Karpovsky's work has appeared in Selected Shorts, The Paris Review, Modern Love, n+1, Grand Theft Auto IV, and This American Life.

Karpovsky also collaborates with graphic designer Teddy Blanks. Together they work as Spielbergs, and created, wrote and directed the 2019 miniseries Oh Jerome, No, starring Mamoudou Athie.

Filmography

Actor

Television Year Title Role Notes 2012–2015 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Stephen Lomatin 2 episodes 2012–2017 Girls Ray Ploshansky 42 episodes 2014 Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends Himself Television Special 2015 The Show About The Show Himself 2 episodes 2016 Deadbeat Jared the Liar Episode: "Medieval Dead" 2018 Drunk History Zvi Aharoni Episode: "Heists" 2018–2020 Homecoming Craig Petrosian 13 episodes 2020 Curb Your Enthusiasm Doctor Seiderman Episode: "The Spite Store" 2022 Angelyne Jeff Glaser 5 episodes 2025 - Nobody Wants This Big Noah 3 episodes 2027 Recap Doc Broussard 3 episodes

Music video Year Title Artist(s) 2017 When You Die MGMT

Video game Year Title Role 2008 Grand Theft Auto IV The Crowd of Liberty City (voice)

Writer/director