Brockdorff was an officer in the
Queen's Royal Hussars, a
cavalry regiment of the British Army. He commissioned from the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2008. Having served on combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he left the Armed Forces to start his career as an actor, performing for some time as Alex Brock. In 2015 he joined with former military colleagues in creating Bare Arms, a company providing military support to the film and television industry. To date, he has appeared mostly in TV dramas - including
BBC One's
Requiem,
Channel 4's
Baghdad Central and the eighth and final season of
Homeland. In April 2024, Brockdorff joined the cast of
Warfare, a war film written and directed by Ray Mendoza and
Alex Garland. ==Filmography==