Alex Lundqvist
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Alex Lundqvist | |
Date of birth | April 14, 1972 |
Place of birth | Stockholm |
Height | 6'2" (188 cm) |
Hair color | Dark Blond |
Eye color | Blue |
Alex Lundqvist (born April 14, 1972) is a male Swedish model. He is a professional paintball player for the teams Jersey Authority in the National Professional Paintball League (NPPL) and Russian Legion in the Paintball Sports Promotion (PSP) National X Ball League (NXL). He is also the brother of professional paintball player Maximus Lundqvist of Stockholm Joy Division. He currently resides in New York.
His modeling career began in the summer of 1994, when he met photographer Bruce Weber and Sean Patterson, a Wilhelmina agent, who tracked him down after spotting his photo in an obscure publication. Immediately, Versace booked him for a worldwide campaign with Helena Christensen shot by Bruce Weber. This led to doing the Lagerfeld campaigns in Europe and Guess in the US.
He has appeared in magazines such as GQ, Playgirl, Elle, L'Uomo Vogue, Top Model and was interviewed on MTV's "House of Style" with his best friend and fellow model Mark Vanderloo.
He was chosen for the 1995 Guess campaign with Laetitia Casta and Valeria Mazza.
He is signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City.
Currently he has been spotted as being Fergie's boyfriend in Fergie's new video, "Clumsy."
His mother-tongue is Swedish and he speaks fluent English and German and a bit of Italian and French.