Born in Ewell in Surrey. Before moving to Portsmouth to gain a BA (Hons) Creative Arts with English, Alex had such little acting experience that he was last seen as a chorus member in the musical Rats! at Primary School. At University he discovered a true love for musical theatre and has since auditioned for every part he can.

Writing Credits include: The Last Three (Screenplay with Matthew Fleming; 2005); The Lift (Screenplay written with Matt Bishop, 2005); Short Back and Sides (Screenplay with Matthew Fleming, 2005); Narrow Alleys (Co-written with Sophie Raeburn & Clover Tucker).

Acting Credits include: La Belle Helene (2007, New Theatre Royal); A Slice of Saturday Night (2006, New Theatre Royal for Kalimasu Productions); Iolanthe (2006); Dogsborough in Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (2006); Nathan Detroit in Guys & Dolls (2006; Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal); Shamrayev in Dominic Symonds production of Chekov's The Seagull (2006); White Rabbit (& Ghost)/ Cook in the abridged presentation of The Eighth Square (Nov 2005); Ensemble in Holding You - The Nelson Musical (2005, New Theatre Royal); Shifty/ Mike/ Ensemble in The Phoenix (Written by Alex Segal, 2005); James Borley in Amen (2005); Actor (Judge) in Bang Bang You’re Dead, a play by William Mastrosimone (2005); Harrison Howell in Kiss Me Kate (2005); Kristian in Checkpoint Charlie (2004); Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado (2004) and P.C. Smith in Brecht & Weill’s The Threepenny Opera (2004).

Other projects/credits: A Few Good Men (2006, Co-director with Elliot Davis). Premiere performance of ‘Playground Heroes’ from The Eighth Square at Wiltshire Studios ‘Music Unplugged’ (Accompanied by the composer, May 2005); Sound Engineer with Matt Fleming for recording of a radio play by writer Sam North, 2005.

Alex took part in the International Comedy Conference 2005: Stand-up Comedian in Stand-up (Written by Colin White); Hamlet in It An Difficult Problem (Written by John Francis Cross). Alex is an amateur DJ, currently working on another album, including working with rapper Oddkid from The Squishheads.

Since graduating from University, Alex Hillman will be appearing as Britney Spears in the first amateur production of Queen and Ben Elton's We Will Rock You at Fareham's Ferneham Hall in June 2007.