David Alpay: biography and filmography

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David Alpay is a Canadian actor who started with such films and series as Ararat, Wild Card, Disaster Day-2: End of the World, etc. His penchant for medical practice did not prevent him from revealing himself as actor, which proves his filmography. In the article, we will get acquainted with a brief biography of the actor and his work in film and television.

Biography

David Alpay (see 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 B altimore, which includes several professional medical schools. A graduated with a master's degree in the history of medicine from the University of Toronto in 2005.

Career start

Despite a strong craving for knowledge in the field of medicine, David Alpay connected his career with the film industry. His development as an actor began while still studying at the University of Toronto, when he received the lead role in Atom Egoyan's historical drama "Ararat" (2002), and throughstarred in the second season of Lynn Marie Latham's comedy-drama Wild Card (2003-2005) for two years.

In 2005, the actor got a supporting role in Susan Coyne and Bob Martin's comedy series Slings and Arrows (2003-2006). In the same year, he starred in Dick Lowry's four-hour science fiction drama Disaster Day 2: The End of the World (2005), which describes the events that take place during a deadly seven-magnitude hurricane that threatens the entire 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 - American comedian, screenwriter and director John Stewart.

Tudors and Borgias

In 2007, David Alpay starred in 10 episodes of Ron Murphy and Ron Oliver's comedy series Billable Hours. Played 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 Unthinkable, filmed by Mary McGuckian in 2008. And from 2011 to 2012, he played Calvino Pallavicini, the fiance of Lucrezia Borgia, in 12 episodes of Neil Jordan's long-running historical drama Borgia (2011-2013).

The actor received a supporting role in 2012 in Philip Noyce's television drama American Reality, which tells about the life of the legendary fashion designer Robert Soulter. ATas Professor Atticus Shane, a specialist in magic and the supernatural, appeared in the fourth season of The CW's fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017), based on the book series of the same name by Lisa Jane Smith. And James Lynch, one of the scientists fighting the infertility pandemic by creating human embryos, played in the post-apocalyptic Lifetime cable series The Lottery (2014).

Quantico Christmas

In 2015, the actor tried on the image of David Manning, a participant in the ice sculpture competition, in David McKay's melodrama Ice Sculpture of Christmas. In 2015 and 2016 as Duncan Howell, a hacker for 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 Alpay, in which he played the role of Greg Abernathy, a member of the crew who arrived in a remote rural area to shoot a new episode of the popular TV show.

One of the main roles the actor received in Marita Grabiak's melodrama "The Ringing of Bells" (2016). He appeared as a key character in Alex Wright's comedy-drama A Writer's Christmas (2017), based on the bestselling book of the same name by Richard Paul Evans. In addition, David Alpay will appear in two more projects. We are talking about the detective Peter Lynch Birdland (2018) and the drama Prodigals by Michelle Welle, the release date of which has not yet been set.