Alex Wyse

Actor, director and writer, also editor and producer · Born December 2, 1986 (39) · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Alex Wyse is an American stage and screen actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for playing Kyle in Marvel's Iron Fist, Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the Beautiful, Max Weinbaum in the Broadway production of Good Night, Oscar, Georg Zirschnitz in the 2015 Deaf West Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, and co-writing/directing the feature film Summoning Sylvia. Wyse grew up in Cleveland, Ohio where he graduated from Beachwood High School. He later graduated from Boston University with a degree in theatre On television, Wyse has appeared in multiple roles since 2010 including Elsbeth, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Bored to Death, Switched at Birth, The Bold and the Beautiful, Marvel's Iron Fist, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Masters of Sex On film, he appeared opposite America Ferrera in X/Y. On Broadway, he made his debut in Lysistrata Jones, which ran at the Walter Kerr Theatre from 2011 to 2012. He then played schoolboy Georg Zirschnitz in the Deaf West Theatre's production of Spring Awakening, and in 2018, he joined the musical Waitress, as Ogie. In 2023, Wyse played Max Weinbaum in the Tony-winning Broadway production of Doug Wright's Good Night, Oscar at the Belasco Theatre opposite Sean Hayes. He also co-produced the Broadway transfer of Heidi Schreck's play What the Constitution Means to Me, which opened at the Helen Hayes Theater on March 31, 2019. He received nominations for a Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for acting as part of the producing team. Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Lysistrata Jones, Triassic Parq, Bare, and Ride the Cyclone. In 2013–2014, he toured with the national company of Wicked, playing the role of Boq. In 2015, he appeared opposite Evan Rachel Wood and Rumer Willis in For the Record in Los Angeles. He frequently collaborates with Wesley Taylor, the two having co-written and directed their critically acclaimed feature film Summoning Sylvia released in 2023. They also co-created, wrote, directed, edited, and starred in the digital series Indoor Boys, which was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award and thirty-three Indie Series Awards, winning twelve, including Best Comedy, Comedy Writing, Comedy Directing, and Best Lead Actor for Wyse, before being acquired by Here TV. In 2024, Wyse and Taylor co-directed Cellino v. Barnes, currently playing off-Broadway at Asylum NYC. Wyse's other work includes co-writing the book, lyrics, and music for A Commercial Jingle For Regina Comet with Ben Fankhauser, which played off-Broadway at the Daryl Roth Theater in 2021. And in December of 2023, Wyse starred in the solo musical “Picking Up Speed” off-Broadway at Royal Family Productions, for which he wrote the book, music, and lyrics.

What are Alex Wyse's films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Society.

Themes

share of theme weight

Bonds

42%

Society

22%

Self

19%

Morality

17%

Friendship2

Roles they play

1 analyzed role

Heroas Nate in Indoor Boys (2017)

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Absurd

2

Tense

2

Warm

2

Contemplative

1

Joyful

1

Other

1

How their films linger

Feel-good2 Hopeful2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Alex Wyse's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 13 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Alex Wyse's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

20 credits, 13 with a MovieCove page.

Elsbeth(2024)
Show 2 episodes · as Cooper
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Summoning Sylvia(2023)
Director · Writer · as Frank (voice)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all films
Stomach People (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
as Chaz
Broadway Whodunit (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Show 1 episode · as Jacob
What the Constitution Means to Me(2020)
Producer
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
XaveMePlease (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Editor
The Other Two(2019)
Show 1 episode · as Elliott
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
Indoor Boys(2017)
Show 24 episodes · Director · Creator · Editor · Producer · Writer · as Nate
Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all shows
Iron Fist(2017)
Show 4 episodes · as Kyle
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(2017)
Show 1 episode · as Jerome
Midcredits score: 98th percentile of all shows
A to Z (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Show 1 episode · as Jordan
Bad Judge (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Show 1 episode · as Bobby
X/Y(2014)
as Sam
Midcredits score: 14th percentile of all films
Masters of Sex(2013)
Show 3 episodes · as Elliot
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Switched at Birth(2011)
Show 2 episodes · as Howie
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all shows
Modern Family(2009)
Show 1 episode · as Sales Associate
Midcredits score: 96th percentile of all shows
NCIS: Los Angeles(2009)
Show 1 episode · as Simon Atwater
Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all shows
Bored to Death(2009)
Show 4 episodes · as Steven
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all shows
Coda (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
as Friend #1
Actual Nobodies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Director · Producer · Writer

Career shape

Star power in the 32^nd percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 19 titles, 18 of them dated from 2003 to 2024.

Biggest box office

Summoning Sylvia (2023)

$53K worldwide

Highest rated

What the Constitution Means to Me (2020)

Midcredits 88^th

Film career

20032024

2009Screen debut· Bored to Death
2014First film· X/Y

By role

only this rolewith another role

Acting17 of 19 · 72^ndDirecting3 of 19Writing3 of 19Producing1 of 19Editing1 of 19Other crew1 of 19

19 titles, 3 with more than one role — acting and directing overlap on 2 of them.

By decade

2000s4 · acting2010s10 · 9 acting · 2 crew2020s4 · 4 acting · 1 crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Alex Wyse work with?

People who share at least 2 of Alex Wyse's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Cody Lassen shares the most, 3.