Alexander Mercury (born 5 September 1983) is a bilingual British actor and film director of Russian origin.
Upon graduation, Alexander was cast as a Tartar Officer in a family fantasy film The Golden Compass (2007).
[1] Most recent projects are the TV-series Londongrad (2015) for the Russian entertainment channel STS in which he plays Marcus Stapleton, a British diplomat, and Okkupert (2015), a Norwegian political thriller TV-series based on an idea by Jo Nesbø, which was filmed on location in Norway.
In 2014, together with a London-based writer Juja Dobrachkous, Alexander adapted an original story called 'Mama" into a short film script 'Mama – Saint Sebastian'.
The film was shot on location over 10 days in St. Petersburg and Moscow in early 2015.