Alexander Karim age – how old is he?
Alexander Karim was born on May 26, 1976. That means he is 48 years old at the time of writing, and will turn 49 in the summer of 2025. What many people don’t know is that his original name Ally Kimbugwe Karim.
Alexander Karim at the beginning of his career, in 2006. Image source: Malin Hoelstad / SvD / TT Image Alexander Karim height – how tall is he?
Alexander Karim is according to his management Actors in Scandinavia 180 centimeters tall.
Alexander Karim’s parents – how was his upbringing?
Alexander Karim was born in Uppsala, but grew up on Drottninggatan in Helsingborg. The family had moved to Sweden from Uganda. They fled from the dictator Idi Amin.
– Amin was a moody bastard. You never knew what would happen. One by one people just disappeared and then found dead in Lake Victoria. That’s probably why my parents ran away. They didn’t know what was going to happen. Because really we were doing well in Uganda, we had assets, he has told in an interview with The Express.
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, here in 1973. Image source: AP/TT Image
Alexander’s mother Nancy worked as a hairdresser, and she worked hard to afford the large apartment in Helsingborg, he told in an interview with Ica Kuriren. Alexander, his three siblings and his mother lived there. The father quickly disappeared from the picture.
– I never missed my father as a person, because I was zero years old when he disappeared. But I saw that my friends had different father relationships. I could get jealous of them, he tells Ica Kuriren.
In the interview with Ica Kuriren, Alexander says that his upbringing during the 1980s was quite calm, racism was not particularly noticeable in Sweden at this time, he explains. But during the 1990s something happened: Skinheads, New Democracy and the Laserman.
– I remember so well when I met a bunch of skins who started chasing me. I ran for my life, says Karim to Ica Kuriren.
After the years in Helsingborg, Karim went to the USA to study film.
– We three siblings went one by one to the USA to study film. Everyone set off after the student. In 1985 it was my turn. I was 19 years old then. I came home to Helsingborg again in 2000, when I was 24 years old. I lived there for another ten years. So I am rooted in Helsingborg, he told Expressen.
Alexander Karim 2021. Image source: Jessica Gow/TT Bild Films and TV series with Alexander Karim – what has he been in?
Most Swedes probably recognize Karim as Niklas Saxlid in the Johan Falk series, but he has also been in the Varg Veum series, played The habit in the reboot of Jönssonligan and he is also in the TV series The Tale of the Dragon’s Return, and he also plays the main role in Viaplay’s new series The Swarm. In 2025, we see him, among other things, in the Norwegian film Safe House, directed by Eirik Svensson.
Does Alexander Karim have a wife or girlfriend?
Yes, Alexander Karim has been married to the journalist and author since 2010 Malin Karim. Alexander and Malin already met as teenagers – she was 13 and Alexander was 14.
– Malin was 13 and I was 14. It was just a situation where we got along very well. So we just sat and babbled and talked. It was actually on that road. I moved to the USA, she stayed in Sweden and started studying journalism. Then I came back and looked for her every year, he has told in Together with Strömstedts.
On his brother’s bachelor party, Alexander saw Malin at a nightclub, and then he had to struggle a bit to get a date. Malin thought that Alexander was a “player”. But after a year it became a date, and the rest is history.
Alexander and Malin Karim at the premiere of Gladiator 2 in London. Image source: Millie Turner/Invision/AP/TT BildWho is Alexander Karim’s wife Malin Karim?
“I am a journalist, writer and mother of three. Quite sarcastic and bitter but loving. Witty, scattered thoughts and at the same time incredibly structured. Make a lot of lists to force my scattered thoughts into some sort of order”, yes, that’s how Malin described herself in an interview with Expressen a couple of years ago.
Malin and Alexander Karim are real “Highschool sweathearts”. Image source: Anders Wiklund/TT Bild
Malin has previously podcasted with her husband Alexander, with whom she had the podcast KarimKvarten. Malin has written two children’s books together with Alexander, and also the novel Jag er gud, which is about a woman in her career who gets burned out. Something that Malin herself has experience with. In 2016, she was on sick leave for burnout.
– It was a long process where a lot of time was spent sleeping. I watched cheesy, cute TV series that didn’t risk evoking any reaction from me. My husband had to take everything related to the children and I had no email for a whole year. My therapist told me to breathe deeply three times a day and at first I thought she was crazy, but when I tested it I found that I was actually breathing really fast. All in all, it took a year to come back, but even today I can sometimes feel that I am not fully recovered, she told in an interview with Everyone’s.
Does Alexander Karim have children?
Yes, Alexander Karim has three children together with Malin Karim. The daughter Alba and the sons Elias and Louie. Alba is soon 17 and the oldest, while Elias is 15 and Louie is 10. In a blog post, Malin wrote about how she felt about the children growing up so quickly.
“What’s it going to be like when everyone’s moved away? I miss little warm, sticky baby bodies crawling onto my lap, fully convinced I know everything about space, dinosaurs and why Anton cried at the assembly. Nowadays I’m vulnerable and hopeless out”, wrote Malin, something that was noticed by The Express when.
Alexander Karim and Malin with the children at the premiere in 2018. Image source: Stella Pictures. Does Alexander Karim have Instagram?
Yes, Alexander Karim has Instagram. That’s his name @alexanderkarim and has a little over 43,000 followers.
Is Alexander Karim in Gladiator 2?
Yes, Alexander Karim is in Gladiator 2! Alexander Karim plays the doctor Ravi in Ridley Scott’s sequel to Gladiator which came in 2000, then included Russell Crowe starring as Maximus. In Gladiator 2, Karim plays against Hollywood stars like Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington.
Alexander Karim in Gladiator 2. Image Source: Stella Pictures.Denzel Washington in Gladiator II. Image source: AP/TT Image
In an interview with TT, Karim revealed how it happened when he got the coveted role. It was a “process that went on for months behind the scenes”.
— My agents really worked actively to get me into the room and try out for the role. Suddenly one day I got a call and then it went very quickly. Then there was a test filming that went on to Ridley who approved and then I got the role, he said then.
In the interview with Ica Courier Alexander tells us that while he waited for an answer, he wore a cap emblazoned with “Strength and honor”—yes, the motto of the Roman army. On his wife Malin’s advice, he wore the cap until he was told – and as you know, it was a resounding yes.
Director Ridley Scott during the filming of Gladiator II. Image source: Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures via AP/TT Image
Gladiator 2 is not a cheap movie. The budget for, for example, Marvel and DC films can end up at $200 million. Movies like Avengers are up and sniffing at $300 million. But Ridley Scott’s grand sequel, which was shot in Malta, had according The Hollywood Reporter a budget of a breathtaking 310 million dollars, or 3.4 billion Swedish kronor.
– It is a size that is completely insane. At some point, someone was going to ask a question, and the recording director jokingly said, “yeah, but remember that your question costs $3,600 a second,” Karim told in an interview with Swedish Radio.