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I was nervous when I first started True Blood because if you do a play or a movie, you know the complete arc of the character. You can see the end. But with a show like True Blood, you don't know what's going to happen.

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Alexander Skarsgard
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: August 25
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Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård
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