Alex D. Linz landed the role every child actor would have wanted back in 1997, but despite starring as the lead in the third Home Alone movie, his career soon took a different path

There are tough acts to follow – and then there are tough acts to follow.

And in movie franchise terms, Alex D. Linz had to follow perhaps the toughest act of all.

Film fans may remember Alex for his most famous role, playing Alex Pruitt in the 1997 family comedy, Home Alone 3. He was the first actor to star in the lead role in a Home Alone movie since the universally popular Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McCallister.

To be fair to Alex, he put in a charismatic performance, bringing his own brand of cheeky charm to the role of a tech-savvy eight year old who has to defend his home from a gang of crimin

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