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Alexander Ally Karim (born 26 May 1976) is a Swedish actor and writer. He made waves as Frank Nordling on TV3's Advokaten, as he was the first Black actor to play a lead character in a primetime drama in Sweden.

Karim was born Alexander Kimbugwe Karim on 26 May 1976 in Uppsala, Sweden to a family of refugees from Uganda who came to Sweden in 1975 to escape despotic president Idi Amin. He has two brothers: director Othman "Osmond" Karim and director Baker Karim.

Karim is married with three children.

After completing the high school, he moved, as well as the brothers before him, to the United States and City College in Los Angeles, where he trained himself to actors. He later admitted to The Hudson Theater in the same city. In 2000, Karim moved back to Sweden and started working in film. In his first movie from the same year, the short film Rampljus, which is about an unemployed actor in Helsingborg, he collaborated with the brother Baker. The film became a great success and won the best film in the category "heavyweight" at the November festival in Trollhättan.