Stephen John Emery (born 11 October 1969)[1], known professionally as Stephen Moyer, is an English actor and film director. He is best known for portraying the vampire Bill Compton in the HBO television series True Blood.[2][3]
On 2 October 2017, Moyer debuted in the lead role of Reed Strucker, a district attorney whose duties include the apprehension of "mutants" with extraordinary powers, in the Fox series The Gifted, loosely based on The X-Men feature film series. The devoted family man does not realise, however, just how much his work life and family life are about to intersect. Fox ordered a 10-episode first season.[citation needed]
Personal life
Moyer has a son named Billy, born in 2000, and a daughter, Lilac, born in 2002, from his first marriage to journalist Lorien Haynes.[10]
In August 2009, Moyer became engaged to actress Anna Paquin, who played his character's love interest, Sookie Stackhouse, in the HBO series True Blood. They had been having an affair since filming the series pilot in 2007. His divorce was final in 2008.[11] They married on 21 August 2010 at a private residence in Malibu, California.[12] Moyer and Paquin have a son, Charlie, and a daughter, Poppy, who are fraternal twins.[13][14][15] The family resides in Venice, Los Angeles.[16]
Moyer has dealt with alcoholism in the past.[17] In 2015, he said that he had been sober for 14 years and that the addiction stemmed from his roots in British theatre, emulating the public images of personal heroes like Peter O'Toole. At a dinner at the CLARE Foundation, a southern California non-profit facility, he stated, "There's this rush that happens from doing our job, this whirring buzz, and you want to continue that buzz." He works with CLARE Foundation to help others with rehabilitation and sobriety.[17]
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