Alexander Ross Winter (born July 17, 1965) is a British-American actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the 1989 film
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its 1991 sequel
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. He is also well known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film
The Lost Boys, and for co-writing, co-directing and starring in the 1993 film
Freaked.Winter was born in London, England, to mother Gregg Mayer, a New York-born American who was a former Martha Graham dancer who founded a modern-dance company in London in the mid-1960s, and father Ross Albert Winter, an Australian who danced with Winter's mother's troupe. Winter received training in dance as a child. He grew up in a Jewish family. He has an older brother named Stephen. When Winter was five, his family moved to Missouri, where his father ran the Mid-American Dance Company, while his mother taught dance at Washington University in St. Louis. The two divorced in 1973. In 1978, Winter moved to the New York City area, where he and his mother lived in Montclair, New Jersey. During this time Winter began performing as an actor on and off Broadway, commuting into New York City. In 1983, after graduating from Montclair High School, Winter was accepted into the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. While at NYU, he met fellow aspiring filmmaker Tom Stern. The two collaborated on a number of 16mm short films and both graduated with honours.Winter was married to Sonya Dawson, with whom he had a son, born in 1998. At some point, he and Sonya divorced. In 2010, he married Ramsey Ann Naito. They have two children.inter maintains dual British and American citizenship. On February 2, 2018, Winter revealed that he was molested by an older man at age 13 while he was acting on Broadway.
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