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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Pillion
2025
as Ray
A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Pillion
2025
Executive Producer
A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

Eric LaRue
2025
as Ron LaRue
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
2024
as Roland Penrose
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
2023
as Himself
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
2023
as James Foster
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
2023
Executive Producer
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
2022
as Self / The Swedish Lawyer
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
2022
as Amleth
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
2022
Producer
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
2021
as John Bellew
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
2021
as Nathan Lind
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
2019
as Sergeant Deeks
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
2019
as Prime Minister James Steward
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
2019
as Anton Zaleski
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
2019
as Stefan Lubert
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
2018
as Vernon Slone
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
2018
as Leo Beiler
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
2016
as Terry Monroe
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
2016
as John Clayton / Tarzan
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
2016
as Adam
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Hidden
2015
as Ray
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

The Diary of a Teenage Girl
2015
as Monroe Rutherford
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
2014
as Father
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
2013
as Benji
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
2013
as Lincoln
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

Disconnect
2013
as Derek Hull
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
2012
as Commander Stone Hopper
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
2011
as Charlie Venner
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
2011
as Michael
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
2010
as Alex
A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.

13
2010
as Jack
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
2010
as Self
Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'

Metropia
2009
as Stefan (voice)
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
2009
as Terje
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
2007
as Stefan
The lives of three working class women in northern Sweden.

Leende Guldbruna Ögon
2007
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
2006
as Micke
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
2006
as Fabian von Klerking
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
2006
as Jergen Voller
Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Kill Your Darlings
2006
as Geert
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
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
2005
as Kalle Öberg
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
2005
as Nisse
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
2004
as Piloten
A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant.

To Kill a Child
2003
Screenplay, Director
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
2002
as Micke
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
2001
as Meekus
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
2001
as Robin Åström
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
2000
as Johan
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
2000
as Anders
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
2000
as Ingmar
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
2000
as Micke
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
2000
as Lise's papsøn
Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebrations.

Happy End
1999
as Bamse Viktorsson
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
1989
as Jojjo
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
1987
as The Boy
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
1984
as Kalle Nubb
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
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
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
N/A
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
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
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...