ALEXANDER SKARSGARD

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Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård was born August 25, 1976 in Götgatsbacken of South Stockholm Sweden. The son of well-known actor Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander began acting at the early age of 8 when he starred in “Ake och hans värld” (“Ake and His World”) where he played Kalle Nubb. In 1989, he decided the public life was not for him, did not care for the media attention and people looking at him on the street. He wished to be an architect. At that point, he put his acting career on pause. Years later he attended college for political science then joined the Swedish military service as a marine at the age of 20. Fifteen months in the service left a lot of time to reflect on his life and he decided then that he would go back to acting. For this he moved to Leeds, England, then on to New York where he attended Marymount theatrical school. After six months in New York, love lured him back to Sweden but it didn’t work out. He decided to stay in Sweden and began taking film and television roles. He landed the role of John in the award-winning “Vingar av Glas “(“Wings of Glass”) in 2000. It wasn’t long after that Alex was a Swedish star! In 2001 he starred in the very popular American movie “Zoolander,” in the role of Meekus, the tall Swedish super model roommate of Ben Alex also has well-honed live theater chops, and has appeared in theatrical productions of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “Bloody Wedding .” In 2008, he starred in HBO’s miniseries “Generation

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