Aldis Hodge

Aldis Hodge is best known for his role as Alec Hardison on TNT's highly rated television series Leverage, which nabbed a People's Choice Award in 2013. He starred in the Amazon pilot The After, from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, and currently has a recurring role on AMC's TURN: Washington's Spies. Next, Hodge will star in the Sony Pictures Television series Underground, for WGN America, opposite Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Christopher Meloni.

Hodge starred in the Fox Searchlight Pictures eco-terrorism thriller The East, which also starred Alexander Skarsgård, Ellen Page, Patricia Clarkson and Brit Marling. Directed by Zal Batmanglij, the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Hodge also appeared in Twentieth Century Fox's A Good Day to Die Hard, the most recent installment of the Die Hard franchise.

Hodge started his career at the age of three when he booked a print job for ESSENCE with his brother, Edwin (The Purge, The Purge: Anarchy, Red Dawn, TV's Chicago Fire). Aldis Hodge continued to work as a model for print ads and commercials until he made the transition onto the screen when he and his brother were cast on Sesame Street. They later joined the cast of the Tony-winning revival of Show Boat on Broadway. During that period, he also appeared in several movies, including Die Hard With a Vengeance, Bed of Roses, The Stone House, Edmond, The Ladykillers and Big Momma's House.

Hodge's television roles include the critically acclaimed series Friday Night Lights, Supernatural, The Walking Dead, Girlfriends, American Dreamz, City of Angels, Bones, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, Cold Case, Charmed and Boston Public.
Hodge was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and raised in New York. In addition to acting, Hodge writes scripts for film and television, designs luxury timepieces and is an avid artist and painter.

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