- His lucky number is 7 because he was born on May 7, at 7 minutes to 7, and weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces.
- Originally one of the three finalists for the the role of Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games, but was later offered the Role of Cato By Director Gary Ross.
- On the set of Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Dwayne Johnson gave him one of his personal guitars on his 16th birthday.
- Is very close friends with AnnaSophia Robb.
- Alexander attended USC and lives full time in Los Angeles, California.
- His paternal grandfather was German and his paternal grandmother was Belgian, from Antwerp. Alexander's mother has English, Scottish, and some German and Jersey [Channel Islander], ancestry; her family has recently lived in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- The German name Ludwig means 'famous warrior'. Alexander plays the "famous warrior" Cato in The Hunger Games (2012).
- Has a daughter Leni James Ludwig (b. April 27, 2023) with wife Lauren Dear.
- He's the eldest of four siblings, having two sisters and a brother.
- His mother is former actress Sharlene Martin, and his father is business exec. Harald Ludwig from Vancouver, Canada.
- Two unrelated films with similar titles, Final Girl (2015) and The Final Girls (2015), were released the same year. Alexander played the leading male role in both. In The Final Girls, Taissa Farmiga's character travels inside the 1980s slasher film, Camp Bloodbath, in which her actress mother (Malin Åkerman) played a major role, as a blonde character who is killed fairly early into the film. Alexander plays one of her friends, who is also transported into the film. Alexander's casting was appropriate, because, his own mother Sharlene Martin had a memorable role in the 1980s slasher film Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989), playing Tamara Mason, a character similar to Åkerman's; she was also blonde and killed fairly early into the proceedings.
- Announced his engagement on Instagram to his girlfriend, Lauren Dear on November 23rd 2020.
- Married his fiancee Lauren Dear on January 4th 2021. The pair eloped in The Lodge at Blue Sky. Coincidentally; they got married on the same date as Talinda Ann Bentley to Michael Friedman; but one year apart.
- Born at 6:53 AM (PDT).
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