In 2008, he played Marine Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill. After serving in the Swedish military, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in a US film in the comedy Zoolander.
Born in Stockholm, he began acting at age seven but quit at 13. Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård ( Swedish: ( listen) born 25 August 1976) is a Swedish actor.
