Alex Rider (character)

Alex Rider
Alex Rider character
Alex Rider, as portrayed by Alex Pettyfer in the film Stormbreaker.
First appearance	Stormbreaker
Last appearance	Russian Roulette
Created by	Anthony Horowitz
Portrayed by	Alex Pettyfer
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Aliases	Felix Lester, Kevin Blake, Alex Friend, Alex Gardiner, Federico Casali, Abdul Hassan, Alex Brenner, Alex Tanner
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Student Spy for MI6 Operations
Family	John Rider (father, deceased), Helen Beckett (mother, deceased), Ian Rider (uncle, deceased), Jack Starbright (guardian, deceased)

Alex Rider is a title character and the protagonist of the popular Alex Rider novel series by British author Anthony Horowitz. He has also been featured in three short stories written by Horowitz based in the same canon as the series; Secret Weapon, Christmas at Gunpoint and Incident in Nice.

Alex is a young boy being used by MI6, the British international intelligence service. At no more than fourteen years of age, Alex was forced into this occupation after MI6 noticed Alex's many talents. He has not only worked for MI6, but also the CIA, Scorpia (in Scorpia), and the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (in Snakehead).

In the film adaption of Stormbreaker, Alex Rider was portrayed by Alex Pettyfer.

Horowitz came up with the idea for the series when he thought about creating a teenage equivalent of James Bond.

He initially considered several possible names for the character, including Jack Banning, Tom Summers, Zac Marshall, Scott Winters, Dylan Beckett, Miles Longman, Sean Reeves, Jake Keaton, Adam Whitehead, Kai Bexter, Marcus Edwards, Liam Skye, Connor West, Kyle Fisher, Bradley Roberts, Callum Gates, Rupert Halliwell and Ben Shires, before finally settling on Alex Rider. Rider's last name comes from the Bond girl Honeychile Rider from the novel Dr. No.