- Was a last (fifth) child in his family.
- His father, Konstantin Moissi, was a rich Albanian merchant (oil and wheat). His mother, Amalia di Rada, was by halves Albanian and Italian, a daughter of a Florentian writer and doctor.
- He was one of the great stars of silent film and theater in Austria-Hungary. His most famous stage characters are: Hamlet (Shakespeare), Henry IV (Luigi Pirandello), Jedermann (Hugo von Hofmannsthal), Protasov (Leo Tolstoy's "Living corpse"), Tasso (Goethe).
- Was cremated in Vienna, Austria and buried near Lake Lugano in Morcote, Switzerland.
- Great-grandfather of actor Gedeon Burkhard.
- The meanwhile high respected actor appeared only seldom in front of the camera during the 20's and 30's, even his theater engagements in Germany dropped off dramatically.
- In Albania he is highly venerated as a most important national actor. In his honour, the drama school of the Academy of Music and Arts in Tirana as well as the university and the city theatre of Durrës were named "Aleksandër Moisiu".
- Together with Rudolph Schildkraut he performed in Reinhardt's staging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, now emphasizing his melodious speech, which despite first damning reviews finally made him a star. Moissi and the Reinhardt ensemble toured the Russia in 1911 and was acclaimed in Saint Petersburg by critic and dramatist Anatoly Lunacharsky for his interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus.
- He was spotted by Paul Schlenther and the great theater actor Joseph Kainz and he attended acting lessons with this famous actor.
- The actor Alexander Moissi grew up in Albania when his parents had to go back from Triest to Albania. His family returned to Triest when he was 10 years old, later he lived in Vienna where he appeared on stage at the Burgtheater for the first time.
- Alexander Moissi died in Vienna because of a pneumonia.
- In 1914, Moisiu acquired German citizenship to become a volunteer in World War I, and during the German Revolution of 1918-19 joined the Marxist Spartacus League.
- . Spiro Moisiu and Alfred Moisiu are direct family relatives of Alexander Moissi.
- The 60th anniversary of his death was remembered in Albania in 1995 with an "Artistic Year" dedicated to him; it was sponsored by the Aleksandër Moisiu Foundation.
- In the 20's he had more success in Russia, France, Austria and Italy than in Germany, in 1934 he applied for the Italian nationality.
- In 1920 he played the leading part in the first performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann adaption of The Somonyng of Everyman at the Salzburg Festival. However, Moissi did not keep up with the German Expressionist and epic theatre movement initiated by directors like Erwin Piscator and Bertolt Brecht. He finally left Germany after the Nazi Machtergreifung in 1933 and was offered Albanian citizenship by King Zog.
- Streets are named after Alexander Moissi in Berlin, Salzburg and Vienna, where also a monument was unveiled in 2005.
- In World War I he was mobilized as an airman and was taken prisoner in France. He got free five months later through a prisoner exchange.
- Although a Christian, Moissi was often labeled as Jewish or of at least partial Jewish descent due to his name (which translates to "Moses") and his friendly relationship with fellow Jewish actors at a time when anti-semitism was on the rise.
- His first engagement at the Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague followed in 1901. He went to Berlin later and soon belonged to the regular cast at Max Reinhardt's theater.
- After an international childhood in Trieste, Durrës and Graz, the 20-year-old Aleksandër settled with his mother and two sisters in Vienna. He began vocal studies and applied for a drama training at the k.k. Hofburgtheater, but was rejected due to his strong Italian accent and had to confine himself to non-speaking roles. It was his performance in Molière's Tartuffe of the Burgtheater 1899/1900 season, which stunned the renowned Austrian actor Josef Kainz, playing the lead role.
- Moissi strongly rebuked his critics in the German press challenging the Christian world to live up to its ideals and desist from persecuting the Jews noting that: "Where Jews are concerned Christian morality, humaneness, and values are trampled underfoot" and "The road of anti-semitism is a throwback to the dark days of the Middle Ages.".
- In 1903 he joined the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where he became a protégé of the influential director Max Reinhardt.
- Traveling across Europe and the Americas, his most famous role was Fedya in Tolstoy's The Living Corpse - performed more than 1400 times by him.
- His first marriage was to Maria Moissi who was from Vienna. She founded the drama school Schauspielschule Maria Moissi Berlin where her husband also taught. They had one daughter, Beate Moissi, (born1908 ). Alexander Moissi had another daughter with Herta Hambach, Bettina Moissi (born 1923). Bettina would later marry the Jewish American art collector Heinz Berggruen in 1959. One of their two children, Nicolas Berggruen, is a billionaire financier and art collector.
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