Early life

Linz was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Deborah Baltaxe, an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz, a professor of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His parents are divorced, and he lived with his mother. He has two younger sisters named Lily Alice and Livia. Linz's mother is of French- and Austrian-Jewish descent and his father is of German descent, and Alex had a Bar Mitzvah ceremony. He attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a member of the improvisation and sketch comedy group, jericho!. In Linz's past, he was a lead science instructor at Galileo Learning, a pedestrian programs intern at City of Los Angeles, a strategy and planning department intern at Metrolink, and a legal researcher for Smith & Baltaxe, LLP.

Career

Linz made his acting debut in 1995 on an episode of the television series Cybill. He subsequently appeared in several television productions, played Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1995 for a short period of time, and was cast as the son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in the 1996 film One Fine Day. In 1997, Linz replaced Macaulay Culkin as the lead actor in Home Alone 3, and voiced a young Tarzan in the 1999 animated film version.

Linz had several starring roles in 2000s films aimed at younger audiences, including the 2001 comedy Max Keeble's Big Move, in which he played the title role, 2002's Race to Space, which received a minor theatrical release, and 2003's Hanukkah-themed made-for-television Disney Channel film Full-Court Miracle, in which he played the lead player in a Jewish school's basketball team. He was also, briefly, the voice of Arnold in the extremely popular Nickelodeon cartoon Hey Arnold!. However, due to the poor box-office performance of the recently released Hey Arnold!: The Movie, the show was abruptly cancelled after Linz had only starred in two episodes.

Linz appeared in the comedy The Amateurs, starring Jeff Bridges. He appeared in the 2007 short Order Up as a busboy. His most recent credit is in the political film Choose Connor as Owen Norris, alongside Steven Weber.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Vanished	Teddy	Television film
1996	Cable Guy, TheThe Cable Guy	N/A	Uncredited
1996	Uninvited, TheThe Uninvited	Jonathan Johnson	Television film
1996	One Fine Day	Sammy Parker
1997	Home Alone 3	Alex Pruitt
1998-1999, 2001	Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly/The Legend of Grimace Island/Birthday World/Have Time, Will Travel, TheThe Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly/The Legend of Grimace Island/Birthday World/Have Time, Will Travel	Franklin (voice)	Direct-to-VHS short films
1999	Tarzan	Young Tarzan (voice)
1999	My Brother the Pig	Freud
2000	Bruno	Bruno Battaglia
2000	Titan A.E.	Young Cale Tucker (voice)
2000	Bounce	Scott Janello
2001	Jennie Project, TheThe Jennie Project	Andrew Archibald	Television film
2001	Max Keeble's Big Move	Max Keeble
2001	Race to Space	Wilhelm "Billy" von Huber
2002	Red Dragon	Young Dolarhyde (voice)
2003	Full-Court Miracle	Alex Schlotsky	Television film
2005	Amateurs, TheThe Amateurs	Billy
2007	Order Up	Busboy	Short film
2007	Choose Connor	Owen Norris

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Cybill	Jason	Episode: "The Replacements"
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jesse Stipanovic	Episode: "Chip Off the Old Clark"
1995	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Son, little boy (voice)	Episode: "A Room with No Viewfinder/Krumm Rises to the Top"
1995	Step by Step	Howie	Episode: "The Flight Before Christmas"
1995	Young and the Restless, TheThe Young and the Restless	Phillip Chancellor IV
2000	Touched by an Angel	Joey	Episode: "Stealing Hope"
2000	ER	Dennis	Episode: "Mars Attacks"
2001-2002	Providence	Pete Calcatera	19 episodes
2002-2004	Hey Arnold!	Arnold	Episodes: "April Fool's Day" & "The Journal"
2003	Exit 9	Richie Sommerset	Unsold WB pilot
2004	Crossballs: The Debate Show	PSA kid	Episode: "Drugs"
2004	Jack & Bobby	Hunter	Episode: "The Kindness of Strangers"

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Tarzan	Young Tarzan	Voice only
2001	Nicktoons Racing	Arnold	Voice only

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