Alexander Fehling was born in Berlin in 1981 and attended the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch from 2003 to 2007. He starred in stage roles at the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble, the Bat Berlin, the Deutsches Theater Berlin, the Berliner Sophiensäle and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich.
In 2006 he was awarded the O. E. Hasse Award of the Akademie der Künste for his role as the Prince in Robert Walser's Schneewittchen. Fehling made his film debut in 2007 in the role of Sven in Robert Thalheim's highly noted And Along Come Tourists, for which he was awarded the Förderpreis Deutscher Film. In 2008 he starred in Hans- hristian Schmid's war criminal drama Storm and Frieder Wittich's student comedy 13 Semester.
His role in Quentin Tarantino's theatrical hit Inglourious Basterds brought him international recognition. As the title character in Goethe! (2009, director: Philipp Stölzl), he won the Metropolis Award for Best Actor, a nomination for the German Film Award and a Jupiter Award. In 2011 Fehling was honored as a German Shooting Star at the Berlinale. At the festival that same year Fehling played Baader-Meinhof Gang leader Andreas Baader in Andres Veiel's If Not Us, Who?.
In 2012 he played alongside Ronald Zehrfeld and August Diehl in the GDR drama Shores of Hope. In 2013 he appeared on German stages along with and under the direction of Michael Bully Herbig in Buddy. He can be seen as a regular character on Showtime's new season of Homeland as Claire Danes' love interest.
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