Editing Alex Proyas (section)

==Early life==
Alexander Proyas was born in [[Alexandria]] (then in the [[United Arab Republic]] and now in [[Egypt]]) on 23 September 1963, the son of a Greek Cypriot mother and a father from Egypt whose Greek ancestors had moved to Egypt many generations ago.<ref name="looking">{{Cite web|last=Kapetopoulos|first=Fotis|date=2020-02-17|title=Alex Proyas: Looking for a new country in filmmaking|url=https://neoskosmos.com/en/158445/alex-proyas-looking-for-a-new-country-in-filmmaking/|access-date=2020-08-30|website=Neos Kosmos|language=en}}</ref>

When he was three years old, the family moved to Australia, where he grew up in the Sydney suburb of [[Waterloo, New South Wales|Waterloo]].<ref name="KL">{{cite book  | last =Lancaster  | first =Kurt  |author2=Thomas J. Mikotowicz  | title =Performing the Force: Essays on Immersion into Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Environments  | publisher =[[McFarland & Company]]  | year =2001  | pages =61  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=p_y8MBIuJ1AC&pg=PA61  | isbn =978-0-7864-0895-5 }}</ref> He grew up on a [[housing estate]] where the main tenants were fellow immigrants and [[Indigenous Australians]], with whom he felt a kinship because they were all often subjected to racism by [[European Australians|white Australians]].<ref name="looking" />

At age 17, he joined the [[Australian Film, Television and Radio School]] and began directing music videos shortly after.<ref name="KL" />

He later moved to [[Los Angeles]] to further his career, working on MTV music videos and TV commercials.<ref name="KL" /><ref name="ic">{{cite web|url=http://indie-cinema.com/2021/08/interview-alex-proyas/|work=Indie Cinema Magazine|title=Interview with Alex Proyas|author=Diana Ringo|date=25 August 2021}}</ref>