True Blood: Created by Alan Ball. With Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten. Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana gentleman and vampire.

True Blood (TV Series 2008–2014) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Vampires "came out of the coffin" two years ago when the Japanese invented Tru Blood, a synthetic blood substitute. Sookie rescues Bill when a couple of lowlife rednecks, the Rattrays, try to steal his blood to sell on the black market, but she may have a price to pay for interfering.

Set in modern times, vampires roam the Earth and are humans' mortal enemies. However, a substitute has been found for human blood, a substitute that vampires can consume with the same effect as human blood. This is True Blood. Now humans and vampires can co-exist in harmony, and even form relationships.

Two years before the start of the show, vampires reveal themselves to the world after a new blood substitute True Blood had been invented. Sookie falls in love with vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer).

Her friends at the faerie nightclub call on one of their oldest members who is shocked to learn that Russell Edington is alive and definitely interested in faerie blood. Sam and Luna meanwhile continue their search for Luna's daughter.

TV-MA violence type: blood, brutal and graphic. The violence and gore in True Blood is quite graphic and quite brutal and violent at times, however it is quick and brief. This applies to the IMAX theatrical prints.

Preston spent four seasons starring as Polly in the TNT series, Claws. Before that, she played Arlene Fowler for seven seasons on HBO's True Blood, while also recurring for five seasons on Person of Interest, playing the love interest to her real-life husband, Michael Emerson.

Deborah started to work as an actress on television and her breakout was in the highly-acclaimed HBO vampire drama, True Blood (2008), as a young and fierce vampire girl, "Jessica Hamby".

True Blood: Jessica's Blog: With Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer, Tara Buck, Nathan Parsons. A spin-off of True Blood that follows Jessica Hamby (Deborah Ann Woll) as she discovers what it's like to be a "Baby Vamp" in the small town of Bon Temps.