Michael Steger in True Blood Season 3

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Michael Steger is 90210‘s Navid Shirazi, a student of Iranian Jewish descent whose bread and butter is politics. According to the EW.com exclusive, however, he’s about to take on a different sort of role for the smokin’ hot HBO series, True Blood. Steger’s new character’s name is “Tony” and his game is gay prostitution. Tony will catch the eye of Russell Edgington, the auburn-haired Mississippi King of vampires, due to his resemblance Russell’s current boy toy, Talbot. Though Steger will appear in True Blood‘s third season and may recur regular in the fourth, there is no talk of ending his run on the CW’s revamp of 90210.

This is the second bit of True Blood casting news we brought to you today, following the word that Lara Pulver is also joining Season 3, as Sookie’s Fairy Godmother True Blood is a spicy, drama based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a novel saga penned by Charlaine Harris. In the show actress Anna Paquin is heroine Sookie Stackhouse in the Golden Globe and Emmy award winning HBO show. We run a review of every episode just in case you miss it! Don’t forget to check out the official comic book of the series. BSC will continue to bring up to date casting news as we hear it.