Alex Finnerty is one of the main characters in Netflix series XO, Kitty. He is the biological son of Jina Lim and Professor Lee. He is Yuri Han’s maternal older half-brother. He is portrayed by Peter Thurnwald.
Background[]
Personality[]
Alex is a young, chill, slightly goofy adopted Australian Chemistry teacher who travels to South Korea to look for his birth parents. He ends up teaching at KISS, where he becomes friends with Kitty and bonding over their cultural naivety.[1]
Physical Appearance[]
Alex is a young South Korean man whose face is framed by his dark brown hair, which falls just above his eyebrows. His eyes are hidden behind black-rimmed glasses that sit on the bridge of his nose.
Biography[]
XO, Kitty[]
Season 1[]
Alex Finnerty was born on August 13, 1993 in Seoul, South Korea to Jina Lim and Professor Lee. Alex's biological mother Jina Lim used her Korean American friend Eve Song's name on his birth certificate to hide her pregnancy. Alex was put up for adoption and was adopted by a white Australian couple.
He was raised by them and went on to become a teacher when he got older. Prior to the series he got curious about his biological parents and did a DNA ancestry test which lead him to an nephew of Professor Lee from which he deduced that man was his father although he was unaware of Alex’s existence which Alex found out when he started teaching at KISS. He still wanted to develop a bond with his biological father, but didn’t tell him about their relationship since he still wanted to find his mother. Kitty helped Alex do that although they were both under the misunderstanding that her mom Eve was Alex’s birth mom until Kitty discovered she was covering for Jina Lim coincidentally the principal of the school and told Alex about it.
Season 2[]
In Season 2, Alex has now reconnected with his father and helps support him at the school. Alex is also there to support and comfort the students with their academic and personal problems. Alex gives Yuri some great advice in particular about her relationship with Juliana.
Relationships[]
Kitty Covey[]
Kitty is the student he's closest to.
Out of all the teachers, he's the kindest towards Kitty and always encourages her to do better.
When Kitty goes to the hospital to learn about her mom's supposed pregnancy and gets caught, Alex is the one who rescues her. Unknowingly to him, Kitty knows about the birth certificate, which is why she uses the chuseok as a cover up to talk to him.
Thinking Kitty already knows about Professor Lee being his father, he admits it to her, which leads to Kitty telling him about the birth certificate, and trying to get him to learn more about his bio parents and to know her family, thinking he was her maternal half brother.
Yuri Han[]
Yuri is Alex's half-sister as they share the same mother.
Appearances[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He likes Turtles.
- Peter Thurnwald who plays Alex was born in South Korea but was adopted by an Australian couple just like his character Alex.