Aleksandar Tesla was born in 1973 in Frankfurt a. M. to Yugoslav parents who met in Germany. His mother is Slovenian, his father Serbian. He grows up speaking three languages. He evades the armies of his six-divided Yugoslavian homeland. In 1996, he drops out of business studies and enters an acting apprenticeship at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. In 2000, he took up his first engagement at the DNT in Weimar. This was followed by engagements in Dresden, Frankfurt, Bonn and Magdeburg, among others. In 2007 Aleks, now a German citizen for 10 years, moves to Kreuzberg. The following year he plays at the bat-Theater/Berlin and shoots his first feature film Rheingold, for which he is nominated as Best Actor at the Filmfest München 2010. In Schnee (Snow), based on the novel of the same name by Orhan Pamuk and directed by Hakan Savaş Mican, he appears on stage at Ballhaus Naunynstraße for the first time.