
Stockholm, Sweden
Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård (born August 25, 1976) is a Swedish actor. Born in Stockholm, he began acting at age seven but quit at 13. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in the US film comedy Zoolander. In 2008, he played Marine Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill. Skarsgård's breakthrough came when he portrayed 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. From 2019 to 2022, he appeared in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), and The Northman (2022) as well as playing Randall Flagg in the miniseries The Stand (2020–2021).

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as Self
2014

as Self - Guest
2009

as Self - Guest
2015

as Self
1996

as Self - Guest
2014

as Self
2007

as Self
2019

as Self - Host
1975

as Self - Guest
1988

as Eric Northman
2008

as Lukas Matsson
2018

as Self
2006
2026

as (voice)
2026

as Johannes
2026

2026

as Ray
2025

as Ron LaRue
2025

as Roland Penrose
2024

as Himself
2023

as James Foster
2023

as Self / The Swedish Lawyer
2022

as Amleth
2022

as John Bellew
2021

as Nathan Lind
2021

as Sergeant Deeks
2019

as Prime Minister James Steward
2019

as Anton Zaleski
2019

as Stefan Lubert
2019

as Vernon Slone
2018

as Leo Beiler
2018

as Terry Monroe
2016

as John Clayton / Tarzan
2016

as Adam
2016

as Ray
2015

as Monroe Rutherford
2015

as Father
2014
as Self - Guest
4 ep.

as Self
2 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
4 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Self - Host
1 episodes

as Self - Guest
2 episodes

as Eric Northman
80 episodes

as Lukas Matsson
10 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Eric Northman
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Adult Toby Powers
1 episodes

as Alexander Skarsgård
1 episodes

as Perry Wright
14 episodes

as Randall Flagg
9 episodes
as Marcus Englund
619 episodes

as Rainer Wolz
2 episodes

as Other John
1 episodes

as Murderbot
10 episodes

as Travis Stubbs
1 episodes

as Svensk advokat
2 episodes