Alexander Skarsgård

Alexander Skarsgård

1976-08-25 Stockholm, Sweden 63 Credits

Biography

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 Melan...

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Pillion

Pillion

2025

as Ray

Acting

A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Pillion

Pillion

2025

Executive Producer

Producing

A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Eric LaRue

Eric LaRue

2025

as Ron LaRue

6.5
Acting

Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a n...

Lee

Lee

2024

as Roland Penrose

7.1
Acting

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War I...

Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen

Svensken bakom Hollywoodkroppen

2023

as Himself

10.0
Acting

On the big screen, film bodies are becoming extreme and body building is part of many actors' job descriptions. Edit follows one of Hollywood's most h...

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool

2023

as James Foster

6.1
Acting

While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the su...

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool

2023

Executive Producer

6.1
Producing

While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the su...

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

Creation of the Kingdom of Exodus

2022

as Self / The Swedish Lawyer

Acting

Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the creative challenges Lars von Trier presents his cast and crew to bring his vision to life from script t...

The Northman

The Northman

2022

as Amleth

7.0
Acting

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Am...

The Northman

The Northman

2022

Producer

7.0
Producing

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Am...

Passing

Passing

2021

as John Bellew

6.3
Acting

In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.

Godzilla vs. Kong

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

as Nathan Lind

7.6
Acting

In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerf...

The Kill Team

The Kill Team

2019

as Sergeant Deeks

6.4
Acting

When Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sa...

Long Shot

Long Shot

2019

as Prime Minister James Steward

6.7
Acting

Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to mak...

The Hummingbird Project

The Hummingbird Project

2019

as Anton Zaleski

6.2
Acting

A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.

The Aftermath

The Aftermath

2019

as Stefan Lubert

6.5
Acting

In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions aris...

Hold the Dark

Hold the Dark

2018

as Vernon Slone

5.4
Acting

In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.

Mute

Mute

2018

as Leo Beiler

5.6
Acting

A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

War on Everyone

War on Everyone

2016

as Terry Monroe

5.8
Acting

Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Things take a sinister turn, howe...

The Legend of Tarzan

The Legend of Tarzan

2016

as John Clayton / Tarzan

5.9
Acting

Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.

Zoolander 2

Zoolander 2

2016

as Adam

4.9
Acting

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Hidden

Hidden

2015

as Ray

6.9
Acting

A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015

as Monroe Rutherford

6.6
Acting

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world...

The Giver

The Giver

2014

as Father

6.6
Acting

In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the tr...

The East

The East

2013

as Benji

6.6
Acting

An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group ...

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew

2013

as Lincoln

7.1
Acting

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Disconnect

Disconnect

2013

as Derek Hull

7.1
Acting

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a mean...

Battleship

Battleship

2012

as Commander Stone Hopper

5.9
Acting

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Ha...

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

2011

as Charlie Venner

5.9
Acting

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spi...

Melancholia

Melancholia

2011

as Michael

7.2
Acting

Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister Claire, and brother-in-law John. Despite Claire’s be...

Trust Me

Trust Me

2010

as Alex

6.3
Acting

A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.

13

13

2010

as Jack

5.8
Acting

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble be...

Behind the Moomins

Behind the Moomins

2010

as Self

Acting

Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'

Metropia

Metropia

2009

as Stefan (voice)

6.1
Acting

In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of underground tunnels. While navigating these tunnels, Roger h...

Beyond the Pole

Beyond the Pole

2009

as Terje

5.3
Acting

A documentary film crew follows the first carbon neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. Simultaneously Saving the Pla...

Black Island Sisters

Black Island Sisters

2007

as Stefan

2.0
Acting

The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.

Leende Guldbruna Ögon

Leende Guldbruna Ögon

2007

10.0
Acting

Lennart Johansson grows up with one dream - to lead a Swedish dance band in the spirit of the Swedish legends "Vikingarna". He is a Swedish at heart, ...

Score

Score

2006

as Micke

3.0
Acting

During the Football Tournament Gothia Cup Micke and Tshepo meet. Six years later Tshepo has become a football coach while Micke entered a criminal car...

Exit

Exit

2006

as Fabian von Klerking

5.3
Acting

There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner wh...

The Last Drop

The Last Drop

2006

as Jergen Voller

4.1
Acting

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings

2006

as Geert

5.8
Acting

A desperate young writer is lured on a wild ride through the desert by a mysterious woman in this darkly comic take on the all-American road trip. Alo...

Never Be Mine

2006

as Christopher

Acting

Liv Swedin is a Swedish actress in Hollywood. It's her 30th birthday when she meets Christopher (a guy from Sweden as well) in her favourite coffee sh...

About Sara

About Sara

2005

as Kalle Öberg

5.9
Acting

Because of a mentally ill mother and abusive relationships, Sara's attempts at happiness turn increasingly selfish and desperate, until her image of a...

Double Shift

Double Shift

2005

as Nisse

3.5
Acting

Jonas has promised to take time off work to take care of his baby daughter so that his fiancé can go back to work. The problem is that his company, a ...

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

2004

as Piloten

Acting

A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant.

To Kill a Child

To Kill a Child

2003

Screenplay, Director

3.9
Writing Directing

Mother, father and child in the kitchen. They've run out of sugar and the child is sent over to grandma to get some. The child takes its every day rou...

The Dog Trick

The Dog Trick

2002

as Micke

4.7
Acting

Simon dreams of finding his one true love. Until then, he spends most of his time watching sloppy tearjerkers on video. He also shies away from the sh...

Zoolander

Zoolander

2001

as Meekus

6.2
Acting

Clear the runway for Derek Zoolander, VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's...

Kites Over Helsinki

Kites Over Helsinki

2001

as Robin Åström

4.6
Acting

Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achiev...

Wings of Glass

Wings of Glass

2000

as Johan

4.2
Acting

Nazli is 18, born in Iran, raised in Sweden. She lives with her father Abbas and her older sister Mahin. Nazli, who wants to blend in calls herself Sa...

White Water Fury

White Water Fury

2000

as Anders

3.1
Acting

Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet sisters Marie and Susann...

The Diver

The Diver

2000

as Ingmar

2.8
Acting

A thriller about deceit and the struggle for power within Eastern European mafia gangs living in exile in Sweden. Swedish fisherman Arne rescues a you...

Hundtricket

Hundtricket

2000

as Micke

Acting

This is the short film that "Hundtricket - The Movie (2002)" is based on and follows the same premise about a shy man walking a dog in order to meet w...

D-Day

D-Day

2000

as Lise's papsøn

5.5
Acting

Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebrations.

Happy End

Happy End

1999

as Bamse Viktorsson

Acting

Happy End is a story about Lukas, a self-absorbed young man adrift who meets Marja, an experienced, older woman. Lukas dreams of becoming a rock star....

The Dog That Smiled

The Dog That Smiled

1989

as Jojjo

7.0
Acting

Jojje, Roffe, Sivert, Lillen, Peggy and the dog King are a tight-knit group of friends. When it turns out that King is sick and soon to die, his frien...

Idag Röd

Idag Röd

1987

as The Boy

7.0
Acting

Harry Friberg photographs a mysterious lightning in the water outside the Blockhusudden. The light turns out to flow over a murder.

Åke and His World

Åke and His World

1984

as Kalle Nubb

6.0
Acting

Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doctor's six-year-old son, from whose point of view th...

The Tiger

N/A

as Vanzin

Acting

Set in snowy far east Russia in the late 90s, a group of men — referred to as the Tiger Team — work to protect endangered tigers from poachers and log...

The Pack

N/A

Acting

A group of documentarians brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back...

Wicker

Wicker

N/A

Acting

On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman; smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded...

The Moment

N/A

Acting

A rising pop sensation navigates the complexities of fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformatio...

The Pack

N/A

Director

Directing

A group of documentarians brave the remote wilderness of Alaska in an effort to save a nearly extinct species of wolves. When the crew is brought back...