Alexander Skarsgrd Wikipedia. Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgrd Swedish pronunciation aleksander sko  listen born August 2. Download Metropia Movie Score PlaylistSwedish actor. He is best known for his roles as vampire Eric Northman on the HBO series True Blood, Meekus in Zoolander, the title character in The Legend of Tarzan, Brad Colbert in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill and as Perry Wright in the HBO miniseries Big Little Lies, for which he won an Emmy. Early lifeeditAlexander Skarsgrd was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgrd and his first wife, My Sonja Marie Agnes,1 a physician. Download Metropia Movie Scorecard' title='Download Metropia Movie Scorecard' />James Bond 007 Kolekcija March 21, 2012, 420 pm Download AMERICAN PIE Complete 8 Amerika pita Kolekcija April 30, 2012, 914 am Download Zvjezdane staze. Early life. Alexander Skarsgrd was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the eldest son of actor Stellan Skarsgrd and his first wife, My Sonja Marie Agnes, a physician. He has five younger siblings Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija and Valter, and two half brothers, Ossian23 and Kolbjrn. Gustaf, Bill, and Valter are also actors. A friend of his father, who was a director, gave Skarsgrd his first film role when he was seven years old. He played Kalle Nubb in ke och hans vrld ke and His World. In 1. 98. 9, the lead role in the Swedish television production Hunden som log The Dog That Smiled made him famous in Sweden at the age of thirteen. Uncomfortable with being recognized, he quit acting for the next seven years. At age 1. He served in the Swedish military for 1. Stockholm archipelago. After completing his service in 1. Sweden and attended Leeds Beckett University in England for six months. He enrolled to study English but admits he did not study much and had a blast instead. After seven years away from acting, he started to consider it again. In 1. 99. 7, he enrolled in a theater course at Marymount Manhattan College and moved to New York City. He returned to Stockholm after six months, but the time he spent studying theater showed him that he wanted to act. Upon his return to Sweden, Skarsgrd began picking up acting jobs, working in film, television and theatrical productions. While on vacation in the United States, he auditioned for and landed the role of Meekus in the 2. Zoolander. 9 In 2. Hundtricket the Movie The Dog Trick earned him an Guldbagge Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He was named the Sexiest Man in Sweden five times. He moved to Los Angeles in 2. Sweden. 1. 1 His break came when he was cast as Sergeant Brad Iceman Colbert in the critically acclaimed HBO miniseries Generation Kill. An adaptation of journalist Evan Wrights book of the same name, Generation Kill follows the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the early part of the Iraq War. The role of Brad Colbert was the closest to a lead in Generation Kill, and director Susanna White and executive producer David Simon at first disagreed about casting Skarsgrd. White wanted to cast him but Simon was not convinced he could pull off the American accent. After four auditions in three cities, Skarsgrd learned the role was his just 3. Namibia where the project was filming. The cast and crew filmed for seven months in the desert, shooting six days a week. Skarsgrd worked with a dialect coach to master the American accent. Just before leaving to shoot Generation Kill, Skarsgrd heard about True Blood, a new series HBO was developing based on the Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris. At first he was unsure about playing a vampire, but when he learned that Alan Ball, creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under and Academy Award winning screenwriter of American Beauty, was behind the project, he sent in an audition tape. The audition was for the role of Bill Compton, which eventually went to Stephen Moyer. Skarsgrd was later cast as Eric Northman, a 1. Viking vampire sheriff, local bar owner and potential love interest of heroine Sookie Stackhouse. True Blood launched its seventh and final season in June 2. In 2. 00. 9, Skarsgrd appeared in the music video for pop singer Lady Gagas Paparazzi. He was the voice of Stefan in the 2. Metropia, directed by Tarik Saleh. In 2. Skarsgrd portrayed Terje, a gay Norwegian trekking to the North Pole, in the British mockumentary Beyond the Pole. Suit maker Hickey Freeman chose Skarsgrd to model a new look it debuted in 2. Annie Leibovitz photographed the ad campaign which appeared in The Wall Street Journal Magazine, GQ and Details. He covered the September 2. Rolling Stone with his True Blood co stars, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. Skarsgrd appeared in two 2. Melancholia,1. 8 an apocalyptic movie directed by Lars von Trier and starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Kiefer Sutherland, premiered at the 2. Cannes Film Festival. Skarsgrd appeared in Straw Dogs, a remake of the 1. Movies On Dvd Rescue Heroes: The Movie on this page. Charlie Venner. The remakes director, Rod Lurie, transferred the small town setting from Cornwall to Mississippi, and described Venner as an ex football star gone to seed. The film co starred James Marsden and Kate Bosworth7 and was released September 1. In 2. 01. 2, Skarsgrd appeared alongside Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna in Peter Bergs Battleship, an adaptation of the Hasbro game. He also starred with Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan in Scott Mc. Gehee and David Siegels film, What Maisie Knew, an adaptation of the Henry James novel of the same name. He was also part of the ensemble cast in Henry Alex Rubins thriller, Disconnect, playing opposite Paula Patton. Skarsgrd starred alongside Brit Marling and Ellen Page in Zal Batmanglijs 2. The East. 2. 4 Skarsgrd starred in the 2. The Legend of Tarzan, portraying the title character, opposite Margot Robbie as Jane. In 2. 01. 7 he co starred in HBOs Big Little Lies. For his role as an abusive husband, Skarsgrd won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Personal lifeeditSkarsgrd is a fan of Swedish football and supports Hammarby IF, a club based in Stockholm, his birth city. In October 2. 01. Bajen Aid by donating several items he had autographed and auctioning them off to raise money for the Hammarby football club. In July 2. 01. 1, Skarsgrd received an honorary degree from Leeds Beckett University where he was formerly a student. Skarsgrd was the Ambassador for the American team for a Walking With The Wounded fundraising event for wounded soldiers. He trekked to the South Pole against Team UK Prince Harry, Ambassador and Team CanadaAustralia The Wire actor Dominic West, Ambassador. A few days into the trek, it was decided that the competition part of the race would be cancelled due to hazardous terrain and weather conditions, so the teams combined forces and continued. Alongside Prince Harry, West and several wounded soldiers, he successfully made it to the South Pole on December 1. FilmographyeditAs a director. Year. Title. Notes. To Kill a Child. Co director with Bjrne Larson. Awards and nominationseditReferenceseditStellan Skrsgard Krakw pokochaa moja ona Styl gwiazd. Styl gwiazd populada. Archived from the original on 2. Retrieved 2. 01. 7 0. Harvey, Chris. Alexander Skarsgard interview True Blood lust, The Telegraph, August 1. Retrieved May 4, 2. Sundholm, Magnus. Jag hinner inte ens kka, Njes Bladet, July 2. Retrieved October 1. Raymond, Joan. Alexander Skarsgard Is a Neck Man, Newsweek, September 1. Retrieved May 3, 2. Hillis, Aaron. Alexander Skarsgard Gets Animated, IFC, May 1. Retrieved May 3, 2. Alexander Skarsgrd True Blood Interview. Last Broadcast. Retrieved July 1, 2. Martin, Brett. Here Comes the Viking, GQ, June 2. Alexander Skarsgrd, Bizarre. Retrieved July 1, 2. Mohney, Chris. The New Carnivore Alexander SkarsgrdArchived 2. Wayback Machine., Black. Book, December 1. Retrieved July 1, 2. Awards for Alexander Skarsgrd. Internet Movie Database. IMDb. com, Inc. 2. Retrieved 2. 00. 9 1. Wilson, Benji. Alexander Skarsgrd on starring in both Generation Kill and True Blood interview, The Telegraph, October 2, 2. Robinson, John. Calling the Shots on Generation KillThe Guardian, October 2, 2. Retrieved July 1, 2.