Alex Morf grew up in Mount Vernon, Iowa. He played Curley in the Broadway Production of Of Mice and Men starring James Franco, Chris O'Dowd, and Leighton Meester, and is known for his work as John Healy on Daredevil and as Detective Mark Ocasek on David Fincher's Mindhunter. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota and of The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.