Alexander Held in school was a solo singer of the Regensburger Domspatzen and a talented soccer player, part of the soccer clubTSV 1860 München, who won youth championships five times. He finished his acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts in Munich. Then Held began at the Munich Kammerspiele. Further engagements at the :de:Niedersächsische Staatstheater Hannover|Staatsschauspiel Hannover, the :de:Freie Volksbühne Berlin|Freien Volksbühne Berlin, the Theater Basel, and the Salzburg Festival followed. In 1993, Held was cast by director Klaus Emmerich in Morlockfor the first time for a television film. Since then he has appeared in numerous well-known cinema and TV productions, including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, Marc Rothemund's Sophie Scholl - The Last Days, and Oliver Hirschbiegel's Downfall. Likely also because of his distinctive voice, the ability to give his characters a double-faced face that quietly exudes a dangerous unpredictability, and his accurate, sharp pronunciation, Held embodied Nazi officials several times, as in Downfall. His most famous role is that of Gestapo officer Robert Mohr, who conducted the interrogations of Sophie Scholl. In Before the Fall, however, he was also seen as a Nazi opponent. In the Sat.1 series Der Bulle von Tölz with Ottfried Fischer, he worked many times as an SPD Bundestag member, who mostly has to look after his opponents in the "Bavarian Unity Party". In 2007, he starred alongside Iris Berben as the greedy villain Heinrich von Strahlberg in the two-part TV film:de:Afrika, mon amour|Afrika, mon amour. In 2008, he was the opponent of Brandner Kaspar, Alois Kugler, in the film of the same name, directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. In 2009, he embodied the politically tactical abbot Kuno in the Margarethe von Trottas film Vision alongside Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, and Hannah Herzsprung, and in the same year, he was seen in Sönke Wortmann'sPope Joan as the Frankish EmperorLothar I. In 2010, he played the figure of the Attorney General Dr. Sasse alongside Ulrich Tukur in Dieter Wedel's two-part TV film Gier. Since 2010, he starred in the crime series Stralsund as the head commissioner Karl Hidde. Since 2014, he embodied the lead role of head commissioner Ludwig Schaller in the crime series München Mord, who angers his boss with his unconventional methods, but solves his cases. His father was the actor José Held, who died in 1974. From December 2005, he was married to German actress Patricia Gräfin Fugger von Babenhausen.
