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True Blood (season 4)
The fourth season of the television series ''True Blood'' contains 12 episodes, bringing the series total to 48. The season premiered on June 26, 2011. Though the storyline picks up twelve and a half months after the events of season three; the season still begins immediately after final scene of "Evil Is Going On". It is loosely based on the fourth novel in ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' series, ''Dead to the World''. Episodes Production Filming for season four commenced in Los Angeles, California, on December 1, 2010. As a special promotional broadcast, the season's second episode "You Smell Like Dinner" was made available on HBO Go a week earlier than usual. This, combined with the 4th of July holiday, is theorized to account for the dramatic decline in ratings for that particular episode. The series hit record high ratings with episode 9 of season 4, titled "Let's Get Out of Here". The episode drew 5.53 million viewers, making it the most watched episode of True Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Blood
''True Blood'' is an American fantasy horror drama television series produced and created by Alan Ball. It is based on ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'', a series of novels by Charlaine Harris. A reboot is currently in development. The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), a telepathic waitress living in the fictional rural town of Bon Temps, Louisiana. It is set two years after the invention of a synthetic blood product branded "Tru Blood" that has allowed vampires to "come out of the coffin" and let their presence be known to mankind. It chronicles the vampires' struggle for equal rights and assimilation while anti-vampire organizations begin to gain power. Sookie's world is turned upside down when she falls in love with 174-year-old vampire Bill Compton ( Stephen Moyer), and for the first time, she must navigate the trials and terrors of intimacy and relationships. The show was broadcast on the premium cable network HBO, in the United States, and was pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series ''Mad Men'' and the Showtime series ''Homeland'', for which she's received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She's also received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination for ''Tales of Meeting and Parting'' (1985). Life and career Glatter was born in Dallas to Jewish parents. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her early choreography credits include William Friedkin's ''To Live and Die in L.A'' and the music video for Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life". Her first film, ''Tales of Meeting and Parting'' (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna. In 1995, Glatter directed her first feature film, ''Now and Then'', a coming-of-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Northman
Eric Northman is a fictional character in ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries,'' a series of thirteen books written by ''New York Times'' bestselling author Charlaine Harris. He is a vampire, slightly over one thousand years old, and is first introduced in the first novel, ''Dead Until Dark'' and appears in all subsequent novels. Since the book series is told from the first person perspective of Sookie Stackhouse, what readers perceive of his character is influenced by what Sookie comprehends. HBO's television series ''True Blood'' is based on this book series and the character of Eric Northman is portrayed somewhat differently. A list of ''True Blood'' characters has a detailed description of Eric's character from the TV show. Human life In the early books, little was revealed about his past. In the ninth book, ''Dead and Gone'' Eric revealed details about his human life as a Viking. He was deemed a man at the age of twelve. At sixteen he married Aude, his brother's widow. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Skarsgård
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 ''Melancholia'' (2011), '' Battleship'' (2012) and '' The Legend of Tarzan'' (2016), Skarsgård starred in the drama series '' Big Little Lies'' (2017–2019) as an abusive husband, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. From 2019 to 2022, he appeared in the films ''Long Shot'' (2019), '' Godzilla vs. Kong'' (2021), '' Passing'' (2021), and ''The Northman'' (2022) as well as played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Thornton
Tara Mae Thornton is a fictional character in Charlaine Harris's ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' and their television adaptation, HBO's ''True Blood''. Profile Tara Mae Thornton is a twenty-something Louisiana native and lifelong friend of the main protagonist, Sookie Stackhouse. The books establish that Tara's parents were abusive alcoholics. The television show also expands Tara's family to include the spared Lafayette Reynolds and his mother, Ruby Jean Reynolds. ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' Tara has two siblings, a brother and a sister. They both left Bon Temps and Tara behind as soon as they were able. In ''Living Dead in Dallas'', Tara is engaged to "Eggs" Benedict Talley, but this relationship ends when a secret sex party they attend ends badly. She then opens up a clothing store called Tara's Togs, and then briefly dates the vampire Franklin Mott. He soon dumps her and gives her to the vampire Mickey who turns out to be a sadist. The situation with Mickey gets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutina Wesley
Rutina Wesley (born December 21, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Tara Thornton on the HBO television series ''True Blood'', and Nova Bordelon on OWN’s ''Queen Sugar''. Early life and education Wesley was born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her father, Ivery Wheeler, is a professional tap dancer, and her mother, Cassandra Wesley, was a showgirl. She attended high school at the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Performing and Visual Arts. She studied dance at Simba Studios and the West Las Vegas Arts Center. While at the Las Vegas Academy, Wesley missed some auditions for college training programs. She finally decided to attend the University of Evansville in Indiana. After Wesley earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance in 2001, her grandmother suggested that she do a nursing course to have a practical fallback job, but Wesley insisted on pursuing her artistic education. She enrolled at the Juilliard School in 2001 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Stackhouse
Jason Stackhouse is a fictional character from ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' book series by author Charlaine Harris. Introduced in the first novel, ''Dead Until Dark'', Jason is Sookie Stackhouse's older brother and road crew supervisor for Bon Temps, Louisiana. Jason is known as a ladies' man and is sexually associated with many women in Bon Temps and its neighbouring communities. Initially portrayed to be callow and selfish, Jason's character changes as the series progress and he begins to mature and become more supportive of Sookie (and her supernatural issues). In the first book, Jason is suspected of killing a series of girls in Bon Temps. Videotapes of his sexual encounters with each girl were damning evidence against him. Jason is eventually found innocent. In later books he is implicated in other crimes, and despite his innocence these accusations continue to erode his reputation. In '' Dead to the World'', Jason disappears. This occurs shortly after he begins dati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Kwanten
Ryan Christian Kwanten (born 28 November 1976) is an Australian actor and producer. He played Vinnie Patterson from 1997 to 2002 in the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away''. After his stint ended, he joined the American teen drama series '' Summerland'', portraying Jay Robertson. From 2008 to 2014, he played Jason Stackhouse in ''True Blood''. From 2018 to 2019 he produced and starred in the crime drama series ''The Oath'' as Steve Hammond. In 2021 he starred in season one of the horror drama anthology series ''Them'' as George Bell. Early life Kwanten was born one of three brothers in Terrigal, New South Wales. The boys were raised by mother Kris, a Lifeline op shop coordinator, and father Eddie Kwanten, a worker at NSW Maritime. Eddie is Dutch. Ryan's brothers are Mitchell, a musician, and Lloyd, a doctor. Ryan attended St Paul's Catholic College in Manly and later earned a degree in commerce from The University of Sydney. Career Kwanten began acting on the television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Merlotte
Sam Merlotte is a fictional character from ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries/Sookie Stackhouse Series'' by author Charlaine Harris. Sam lives in the fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, and is the owner of a bar named Merlotte's. Sam has strawberry blond hair with blue eyes. He is both a close friend of and the employer of mind-reading barmaid Sookie Stackhouse. Sam is a shape shifter. His biological mother was a shifter just as his brother. He is a shape-shifter in that he can take the form of any animal; although his preferred shape is that of a collie, he can change into any animal he has seen. On nights when the moon is full, Sam - like all shapeshifters - feels a strong urge to change; the rest of the time he can do it at will. In the eighth book during the were war, instead of turning into a collie as usual, Sam unexpectedly changes to a lion to protect Sookie. It is said that the enemy werewolves were even frightened to challenge him due to his now great strength, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Trammell
Sam Trammell (born January 29, 1969) is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Merlotte on the HBO fantasy drama series ''True Blood''. He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Richard Miller in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' Career Trammell has worked in theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, and television. His stage credits include a Tony Award-nominated performance in ''Ah, Wilderness!'' at Lincoln Center. Off-Broadway, he starred in ''Dealer's Choice'', ''My Night with Reg'', ''If Memory Serves'', and ''Ancestral Voices'', as well as in '' Kit Marlowe'' at the Joseph Papp Public Theater. Trammell's big break came when he landed the role of Sam Merlotte on the HBO series ''True Blood''. In 2013, he played Darrell Mackey in the drama film ''White Rabbit''. He played Hazel (Shailene Woodley)'s father, Michael Lancaster, in the 2014 film ''The Fault in Our Stars'', based on the novel of the same name by John Green. In 2019, Tramme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Compton (The Southern Vampire Mysteries)
William Thomas "Bill" Compton is a fictional character from ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' series by author Charlaine Harris. He is a vampire and is introduced in the first novel in the series, ''Dead Until Dark,'' and has appeared in all of the novels since. In the fifth season of the television adaption, Bill plays the role of the main antagonist. Human life In the book series, Bill was born on April 9, 1840. He lived in Bon Temps, Louisiana, and fought for the South during the Civil War. He was a married farmer with three children, although he states that he had five living children with his wife in ''Dead Until Dark.'' In 1865, he was made a vampire by Lorena, with whom he had a long and stormy relationship. Later in the book series, Bill discovers that he is related to the Bellefleur family in Bon Temps and secretly provides them with funds to aid in the repair of their ancestral home. The Bellefleurs - who do not know he is the source of the income - initially warm to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Moyer
Stephen Moyer (born Stephen John Emery; 11 October 1969) is an English film and television actor who is best known as vampire Bill Compton in the HBO series ''True Blood''. His first television role was in 1993 as Philip Masefield in the TV adaptation of the play ''Conjugal Rites'', written by actor/playwright Roger Hall. This was followed by the television film ''Lord of Misrule'', filmed in Fowey, Cornwall, which also featured Richard Wilson, Emily Mortimer and Prunella Scales. In 1997, Moyer made his big-screen debut landing the lead role in the film adaptation of the long-running comic strip ''Prince Valiant'' by Hal Foster, working alongside Ron Perlman and Katherine Heigl. From 2017 to 2019, he starred as Reed Strucker, the lead role in Fox series '' The Gifted''. Early life and career Moyer was born in Brentwood, Essex and attended St Martin's, a comprehensive school in Hutton, Essex. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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