 Alexander appeared on stage in "I'm Not Rappaport", "Six Degrees of Separation" and the Stephen Sondheim musical "Assassins", in which he portrayed Lee Harvey Oswald.His screen roles include "City of Hope", "Love and a .45", "Matewan", "Eight Men Out", "Crocodile Dundee II" and "Clueless".In the early 1990s, Alexander studied at the American Film Institute, where he became interested in directing.