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- NAME: Alexander Skarsgard
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Television Actor
- BIRTH DATE: August 25, 1976 (Age: 36)
- EDUCATION: Leeds Metropolitan University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Stockholm, Sweden
- Full Name: Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård
- ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo
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Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård was cast in Alan Ball's HBO series True Blood as Eric Northman, a powerful thousand-year-old Viking vampire.
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