Wood to play 500-year-old vampire

Marilyn Manson's girlfriend, actress Evan Rachel Wood, is to play a 500-year-old bloodsucking vampire in a hit U.S. TV drama.

The Wrestler star will play the vampire Queen of Louisiana in the upcoming second season of True Blood, which debuted last year (08) to rave reviews and a cult following.

Website EW.com reports her character, Sophie-Anne, is a high-ranking French aristocrat who will appear in a two-episode arc at the end of the new season.

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