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Alexander Skarsgård, born August 25, 1976, is a Swedish actor who plays the role of Eric Northman on the HBO original series True Blood. He is the son of film actor Stellan Skarsgård and, on several scenes throughout the show, has spoken in his native Swedish. Making his debut on the episode...
Sep 1, 2020 · Published Sep 1, 2020. Like the actor who plays him, the ancient vampire Eric Northman from HBO's True Blood is a tall, seductive Swede. Alexander Skarsgård plays Eric, the Sheriff of Area 5, for the supernatural series's entire run, which lasted seven seasons between 2008 to 2014. The 1,000-year-old bloodsucker is a wise and guarded immortal ...
Aug 19, 2013 · Alexander Skarsgård got naked on last night's True Blood. Like, naked naked. The actor, who plays vamp Eric Northman on the HBO hit, has long said that he's perfectly comfortable shooting...
Thanks to the writer's strike, after completing Generation Kill (2008), he was cast in the role of "Eric Northman", a 1,000-year-old Viking vampire on the hit series, True Blood (2008). The series was created by Alan Ball , the man behind Six Feet Under (2001) .
- January 1, 1
- 1.94 m
- Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
- Leah Greenblatt
- 9 min
- Zoolander (2001) "Everything about it felt very crazy and very glamorous to me," says the actor of his first introduction to a major studio production, in which he played a male model with a taste for orange mocha Frappuccinos and not much sense beneath his frosted tips.
- Generation Kill (2008) Skarsgård, who served 18 months in the Swedish Armed Forces, has played an American soldier at least three times on screen — including a pivotal early turn in the fact-based HBO miniseries Generation Kill, which he describes as "an attempt to truthfully and accurately portray the first five weeks of the invasion in of Iraq in 2003.
- True Blood (2008-2014) Skarsgård initially tried out for the part of True Blood's main antagonist Bill Compton (which eventually went to Stephen Moyer), before stepping into the more libertine role of Eric Northman in the long-running HBO series.
- Melancholia (2011) Skarsgård's actor father, Stellan (Dune, Chernobyl) had made several formative films with Danish auteur Lars von Trier, including Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves, when the opportunity came to appear onscreen together for the first time in von Trier's surreal apocalyptic drama Melancholia — in which Alexander played the unlucky groom to Kirsten Dunst's clinically depressed bride at the end of the world, and Stellan (spoiler) his dad.
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