Alex D. Linz

Linz was born on January 3, 1989, in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Deborah (née Baltaxe), an attorney, and Dr. Daniel Linz, a professor of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has two younger sisters, Lily Alice and Livia. Linz's parents are divorced, and he lived with his mother. Linz is Jewish, and had a bar mitzvah ceremony. Linz attended Alexander Hamilton High School in Los Angeles, during which time he was the lead singer of a garage band, The Fez Armada. After his career as a child actor, Linz attended college at University of California, Berkeley, where he became involved in a campus improv group, Jericho!. Linz graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011. He earned his master's degree in urban and regional planning at University of California, Los Angeles in 2017.

Linz made his professional acting debut in 1995 on an episode of the television series Cybill. He subsequently appeared in several television productions, played Phillip Chancellor IV on the soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1995 for a short period of time. Linz was cast as the son of Michelle Pfeiffer's character in the 1996 feature film One Fine Day. His big breakthrough came in the 1997 Christmas film Home Alone 3, but the film received a lukewarm response due to lacking a reprising cast that represented the McCallister family of the previous blockbuster Home Alone feature films. In 2001, Linz played the title character in the Disney film Max Keeble's Big Move, which received mixed reviews and was a box-office failure.

As of 2023, Linz is working as a legal researcher in Los Angeles, California, and he is also a lead science instructor.