Biography
Alexander Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm in 1976, he began acting as a child but stopped at the age of 13. After completing military service, he returned to acting and appeared in his first American film role in Zoolander (2001).
He played Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008) and gained prominence as Eric Northman in the series True Blood (2008–2014). Later film roles include Melancholia (2011), Battleship (2012) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016). In Big Little Lies (2017–2019) he portrayed an abusive husband, earning a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
More recent work includes Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), The Northman (2022), Infinity Pool (2023) as James Foster and Lee (2024) as Roland Penrose.
