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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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