News feed

Alexander Skarsgard

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgårdis a Swedish actor.

A son of actor Stellan Skarsgård, he began acting at age seven but quit at thirteen. After serving in the Swedish Navy, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in the US comedy film Zoolander (2001). He played Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008), and had his breakthrough 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 and a Golden Globe Award. He went on to appear in the films Long Shot (2019), Godzilla vs. Kong (2021), Passing (2021), The Northman (2022), which he also produced, and Infinity Pool (2023). He also played Randall Flagg in the miniseries The Stand (2020–2021) and tech mogul Lukas Matsson in the drama series Succession (2021–2023), for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

Other people

Alan Sugar
Alan Sugar
Alan Michael Sugar,Baron Sugaris a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician and political adviser. In 1968, he started what would later become his largest business venture, cons...
Desmond O'connor
Desmond O'connor
Desmond Bernard O'Connorwas an English comedian, singer and television presenter. He was a long-time TV chat-show host, beginning with The Des O'Connor Show in 1963, which ran for ten years. He also p...
Faiza Shaheen
Faiza Shaheen
Faiza Shaheenis a British academic and economist in the field of economic inequality. In 2018, she was selected to be the prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour for Chingford and Woodford Gree...