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Known For
Acting
Born
1951-06-13
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Stellan Skarsgård
Biography
Stellan Skarsgård (born June 13, 1951) is a Swedish actor, known internationally for The Hunt for Red October and Good Will Hunting, as well as his supporting roles in the Pirates of the Caribbean, Mamma Mia!, and Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchises.
Skarsgård is particularly associated with director Lars von Trier and has appeared in six of the Danish auteur's features: The Kingdom, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors as Self
2025Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg
2025Being Bo Widerberg as Self
2025Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor as Narrator
2024Who's Who as Narrator
2024What Remains as Sören Rank
2024Dune: Part Two as Baron Harkonnen
2022Andor as Luthen Rael
2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022Thor: Love and Thunder as Selvig
2022Soul of a Man as Bon-Bon
2021Dune as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
2021The Ape Star as Tord Fjordmark (voice)
2021Marvel Studios Legends as Erik Selvig (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020Last Words as Zyberski
202011 Colours of the Bird as Self
2019Hope as Tomas
2019The Painted Bird as Hans
2019Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria as Self
2019I'll Find You as Benno Moser
2019Chernobyl as Boris Shcherbina
2019Out Stealing Horses as Trond
2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Bill Anderson / Kurt Anderson
2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as The Boss
2018Filmworker as Self
2017Gordon & Paddy as Gordon (voice)
2017Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt as Self
2017Borg vs McEnroe as Lennart Bergelin
2017Return to Montauk as Max Zorn
2016Our Kind of Traitor as Dima
2016The Hotel as Self
2015River as John River
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Avengers: Age of Ultron as Erik Selvig
2015Cinderella as Grand Duke
2014Hector and the Search for Happiness as Edward
2014Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia' as Himself
2014Rouge Brésil as Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon
2014In Order of Disappearance as Nils
2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. II as Seligman
2013The Physician as Barber
2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. I as Seligman
2013The Railway Man as Finlay
2013Thor: The Dark World as Erik Selvig
2013Romeo & Juliet as Prince of Verona
2013Rouge Brésil as Villegagnon
2012Liten Skär och alla små Brokiga as (voice)
2012Our Need for Consolation as Narrator
2012The Avengers as Selvig
2012Playhouse Presents
2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger as Self
2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women as Self
2012Room 1112
2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Martin Vanger
2011Melancholia as Jack
2011Thor as Erik Selvig
2010King of Devil's Island as Bestyrer Håkon
2010Frankie & Alice as Oz
2010Dimension
2010Behind the Moomins as Self
2010As If I Am Not There as Doctor
2010Boogie Woogie as Bob Maclestone
2010Arn: The Knight Templar as Birger Brosa
2010A Somewhat Gentle Man as Ulrik
2009Metropia as Ralph Parker (voice)
2009Angels & Demons as Commander Richter
2009Skavlan as Self - Guest
2008Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
2008God on Trial as Baumgarten
2008Schrader's Exorcism as Self
2008Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End as Birger Brosa
2008Mamma Mia! as Bill Anderson
2007Arn: The Knight Templar as Birger Brosa
2007Guilty Hearts as Stangl
2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Bootstrap Bill
2007WΔZ as Eddie Argo
2007Wrath of Gods as Self
2006Svenska ord i bild och tal as Self
2006Goya's Ghosts as Francisco Goya
2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner
2006Kill Your Darlings as Erik's Father
2005Beowulf & Grendel as Hrothgar
2005Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin
2004Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
2004Kulturplatz as Self
2004The Making of King Arthur as Self
2004Exorcist: The Beginning as Father Lankester Merrin
2004Entourage as Verner Vollstedt
2004King Arthur as Cerdic
2004Dogville Confessions as Self
2004Eiffel Tower as Jakob
2003Dogville as Chuck
2003Helen of Troy as King Theseus of Athens
2003To Kill a Child as Narrator
2002City of Ghosts as Joseph Kaspar
2002No Good Deed as Tyrone
2002Taking Sides as Wilhelm Furtwängler
2001Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Felix
2001The Glass House as Terence Glass
2001Powder Keg as Harvey Jacobs
2001The Hire as Harvey Jacobs
2001Signs & Wonders as Alec
2000Aberdeen as Tomas
2000Dancer in the Dark as Doctor
2000Light Keeps Me Company as Self
2000Harlan County War as Warren Jakopovich
2000Timecode as Alex Green
2000I Remember Lena Svedberg as Narrator (Eng)
2000Passion of Mind as William Granther
2000D-Day as Lise's Mand
1999Deep Blue Sea as Jim Whitlock
1998Ronin as Gregor
1998The Kingdom II as Stig Helmers advokat
1998Savior as Peter
1998The Glass-Blower's Children as Albert
1997Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997Amistad as Tappan
1997Good Will Hunting as Gerald Lambeau
1997My Son the Fanatic as Schitz
1997The Volcano Man as English voice (voice)
1997Insomnia as Jonas Engström
1996Hundarna i Riga as Magnus Björk
1996Breaking the Waves as Jan Nyman
1996Harry & Sonja as Harry Olsson
1995The Dogs of Riga as Magnus Björk
1995Zero Kelvin as Randbæk
1995The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery as Herman Melvin
1994The Kingdom as Stig Helmers advokat
1994Report to Heaven as Gary
1993The Last Dance as Host in Norrköping
1993Murder at the Savoy as Security Manager
1993The Slingshot as Fritiof Schütt
1992Wind as Joe Heiser
1992The Democratic Terrorist as Carl Hamilton
1992Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten as Narrator (voice)
1991The Ox as Helge Roos
1990Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg as Raoul Wallenberg
1990Parker Kane as Nathan Van Adams
1990The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)
1990Smash as Finansministerns sekreterare
1989The Simpsons as Stellan Skarsgård (voice)
1989The Interrogation as Carl Hamilton
1989The Women on the Roof as Willy
1989Vildanden as Gregers Werle
1989Code Name Coq Rouge as Carl Hamilton
1989S/Y Joy as Klas Larsson
1988The Perfect Murder as Axel Svensson
1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being as The Engineer
1988Time of the Wolf as Peder Ulfstand
1987Friends as Matt
1987Hip Hip Hurrah! as Sören Kröyer
1987Jim and the Pirates Blom as Gustav, Jim's Father
1986The Serpent's Way as Karl Orsa Markström
1985Peter-No-Tail in Americat as Pelle Swanson
1985False as Water as Stig
1985August Strindberg: A Life as Verner von Heidenstam
1985Noon Wine as Olaf Helton
1985Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark as Hamlet
1984Åke and His World as Ebenholtz
1983The School of Wives as Horace
1983Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1983P & B as Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson
1982The Simple-Minded Murderer as Sven
1982American Playhouse
1981The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Best Actor winner
1978Det är din boll, Jim as Journalist
1977Hemåt i natten as Kurt Sjöberg
1977Tabu as Jan-Erik
1975The Intruders as Peter Delaney
1973Anita, Swedish Nymphet as Erik
1973The Wedding as Roffe Eriksson
1973Five Days in August as Christer
1972The Office Party as Peter
1972Raid in the Summer as Erik
1971Den byxlöse äventyraren
1968Bombi Bitt och jag as Bombi Bitt
—Mamma Mia! 3









