Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård appeared in his first role in the US film comedy Zoolander (2001). He played Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008), and had his breakthrough for portraying vampire Eric Northman in the television series True Blood (2008–2014).

After appearing in films such as Melancholia (2011), Battleship (2012) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016), Skarsgård starred in the drama series "Big Little Lies" (2017–2019) as an abusive husband, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He went on to appear in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), The Northman (2022), and Infinity Pool (2023), and played Randall Flagg in the miniseries "The Stand" (2020–2021) and tech mogul Lukas Matsson in the drama series "Succession" (2021–2023).

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