Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård

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• Name: ALEXANDER JOHAN HJALMAR SKARSGÅRD
• English name: ALEXANDER JOHAN HJALMAR SKARSGÅRD
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• Alias: ['ALEX', 'ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD']
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Description: Alexander johan hjalmar skarsgård was born in stockholm, sweden and is the eldest son of famed actorstellan skarsgård. among his siblings are actorsgustaf skarsgård,bill skarsgård, andvalter skarsgård. for most of his formative years, his father was an acclaimed actor in europe but had not yet achieved the international fame that came after his star turn inbreaking the waves(1996). young alexander was raised under modest circumstances in a working-class swedish neighborhood as his parents wanted their children to have as normal an upbringing as possible. he began his acting career at the age of eight and continued working in films and on swedish television until he turned sixteen and decided acting was not the career for him. life under a microscope lost its charm and perhaps due to the influence ofmy skarsgård, his physician mother, he stopped working as an actor, to continue his education.instead of continuing college, at the age of nineteen, he entered compulsory military service (military conscription). he used the time to contemplate his future. he studied at the leeds metropolitan university then moved to new york where he enrolled at marymount manhattan college to study theatre. after six months in new york, a romantic entanglement lured him back to sweden but the relationship was short-lived. despite having a broken heart, alexander decided to stay in sweden and, with a bit of life experience under his belt, began his acting career again. he appeared in a number of swedish productions and became a star in his native country but was interested in broadening his horizons and working outside of sweden. a visit to los angeles landed him both an agent and a part in theben stillermovie,zoolander(2001). after that alexander returned to sweden where he continued honing his acting in film and theatrical productions including "who's afraid of virginia woolf?" and "bloody wedding". he also co-wrote and co-directed an award-winning short,att döda ett barn(2003), (to kill a child), which was shown at both the tribeca and cannes film festivals.his first big break was with the miniseriesgeneration kill(2008). alexander spent seven months broiling in the desert of namibia but it was well worth it. his portrayal of marine sgt. brad "iceman" colbert astonished critics and audiences, alike. thanks to the writer's strike, after completinggeneration 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 byalan ball, the man behindsix feet under(2001).true blood(2008) was adapted from the "sookie stackhouse' novels by charlaine harris' and rode to success on quality scripts, great acting and the public's obsession with the vampire genre. in addition totrue blood(2008), which begins its third season in 2010, alexander has a number of film projects in the works including the remake ofstraw dogs(2011),melancholia(2011), written and directed bylars von trier, action sci-fi film,battleship(2012), andthe east(2013), directed byzal batmanglij.

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• Birth date: Aug. 25, 1976, midnight
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• Height: 194

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