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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 13, 1951
Place of Birth
Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Also Known As
- Stellan John Skarsgård
Stellan Skarsgård
4.2 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self
Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
2025
7.6
Gustav Borg
Sentimental Value
2025
7.0
Self
Being Bo Widerberg
2025
0.0
Narrator
Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor
2025
0.0
Narrator
Who's Who
2024
5.8
Sören Rank
What Remains
2024
8.1
Baron Harkonnen
Dune: Part Two
2024
8.3
Luthen Rael
Andor
2022
7.3
Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
2022
6.4
Selvig
Thor: Love and Thunder
2022
Credits
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Variety & CNN Actors on Actors
as Self
2025
0.0
Sentimental Value
as Gustav Borg
2025
7.6
Being Bo Widerberg
as Self
2025
7.0
Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor
as Narrator
2025
0.0
Who's Who
as Narrator
2024
0.0
What Remains
as Sören Rank
2024
5.8
Dune: Part Two
as Baron Harkonnen
2024
8.1
Andor
as Luthen Rael
2022
8.3
Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look
as Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022
7.3
Thor: Love and Thunder
as Selvig
2022
6.4
Soul of a Man
as Bon-Bon
2022
7.0
Dune
as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
2021
7.8
The Ape Star
as Tord Fjordmark (voice)
2021
5.7
Marvel Studios Legends
as Erik Selvig (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.4
Last Words
as Zyberski
2020
4.1
11 Colours of the Bird
as Self
2020
7.2
Hope
as Tomas
2019
6.9
The Painted Bird
as Hans
2019
7.1
Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
as Self
2019
7.3
I'll Find You
as Benno Moser
2019
5.4
Chernobyl
as Boris Shcherbina
2019
8.7
Out Stealing Horses
as Trond
2019
6.4
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
as Bill Anderson / Kurt Anderson
2018
7.1
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
as The Boss
2018
6.7
Filmworker
as Self
2018
7.1
Gordon & Paddy
as Gordon (voice)
2017
6.1
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Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt
as Self
2017
0.0
Borg vs McEnroe
as Lennart Bergelin
2017
6.9
Return to Montauk
as Max Zorn
2017
5.6
Our Kind of Traitor
as Dima
2016
6.1
The Hotel
as Self
2016
0.0
River
as John River
2015
7.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Avengers: Age of Ultron
as Erik Selvig
2015
7.3
Cinderella
as Grand Duke
2015
6.8
Hector and the Search for Happiness
as Edward
2014
6.7
Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia'
as Himself
2014
0.0
Rouge Brésil
as Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon
2014
0.0
In Order of Disappearance
as Nils
2014
6.9
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
as Seligman
2013
6.7
The Physician
as Barber
2013
7.3
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
as Seligman
2013
6.8
The Railway Man
as Finlay
2013
6.8
Thor: The Dark World
as Erik Selvig
2013
6.5
Romeo & Juliet
as Prince of Verona
2013
6.7
Rouge Brésil
as Villegagnon
2013
5.0
Liten Skär och alla små Brokiga
as (voice)
2012
0.0
Our Need for Consolation
as Narrator
2012
10.0
The Avengers
as Selvig
2012
7.9
Playhouse Presents
2012
6.0
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women
as Self
2012
6.0
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger
as Self
2012
8.0
Room 1112
2012
6.9
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
as Martin Vanger
2011
7.4
Melancholia
as Jack
2011
7.2
Thor
as Erik Selvig
2011
6.8
King of Devil's Island
as Bestyrer Håkon
2010
7.1
Frankie & Alice
as Oz
2010
5.9
Dimension
2010
5.3
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Behind the Moomins
as Self
2010
0.0
As If I Am Not There
as Doctor
2010
6.7
Boogie Woogie
as Bob Maclestone
2010
5.0
Arn: The Knight Templar
as Birger Brosa
2010
7.5
A Somewhat Gentle Man
as Ulrik
2010
6.5
Metropia
as Ralph Parker (voice)
2009
6.1
Angels & Demons
as Commander Richter
2009
6.7
Skavlan
as Self - Guest
2009
5.0
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Birthing Mamma Mia!
as Self
2008
0.0
God on Trial
as Baumgarten
2008
6.8
Schrader's Exorcism
as Self
2008
8.0
Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End
as Birger Brosa
2008
6.3
Mamma Mia!
as Bill Anderson
2008
7.0
Arn: The Knight Templar
as Birger Brosa
2007
6.3
Guilty Hearts
as Stangl
2007
5.5
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
as Bootstrap Bill
2007
7.3
WΔZ
as Eddie Argo
2007
5.6
Wrath of Gods
as Self
2007
5.0
Svenska ord i bild och tal
as Self
2006
5.0
Goya's Ghosts
as Francisco Goya
2006
6.6
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner
2006
7.4
Kill Your Darlings
as Erik's Father
2006
5.8
Beowulf & Grendel
as Hrothgar
2005
5.6
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
as Father Lankester Merrin
2005
5.3
Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane
as Self
2004
0.0
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
The Making of King Arthur
as Self
2004
8.7
Exorcist: The Beginning
as Father Lankester Merrin
2004
5.4
Entourage
as Verner Vollstedt
2004
7.4
King Arthur
as Cerdic
2004
6.3
Dogville Confessions
as Self
2004
6.8
Eiffel Tower
as Jakob
2004
0.0
Dogville
as Chuck
2003
7.8
Helen of Troy
as King Theseus of Athens
2003
6.1
To Kill a Child
as Narrator
2003
3.9
City of Ghosts
as Joseph Kaspar
2002
5.8
No Good Deed
as Tyrone
2002
5.4
Taking Sides
as Wilhelm Furtwängler
2002
6.2
Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang)
as Felix
2001
5.7
The Glass House
as Terence Glass
2001
6.0
Powder Keg
as Harvey Jacobs
2001
6.8
The Hire
as Harvey Jacobs
2001
7.6
Signs & Wonders
as Alec
2001
3.7
Aberdeen
as Tomas
2000
6.3
Dancer in the Dark
as Doctor
2000
7.9
Light Keeps Me Company
as Self
2000
7.8
Harlan County War
as Warren Jakopovich
2000
7.1
Timecode
as Alex Green
2000
5.5
I Remember Lena Svedberg
as Narrator (Eng)
2000
6.5
Passion of Mind
as William Granther
2000
5.8
D-Day
as Lise's Mand
2000
5.5
Deep Blue Sea
as Jim Whitlock
1999
6.0
Ronin
as Gregor
1998
7.0
The Kingdom II
as Stig Helmers advokat
1998
7.7
Savior
as Peter
1998
7.2
The Glass-Blower's Children
as Albert
1998
5.2
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997
6.8
Amistad
as Tappan
1997
7.0
Good Will Hunting
as Gerald Lambeau
1997
8.2
My Son the Fanatic
as Schitz
1997
4.9
The Volcano Man
as English voice (voice)
1997
10.0
Insomnia
as Jonas Engström
1997
7.0
Hundarna i Riga
as Magnus Björk
1996
5.0
Breaking the Waves
as Jan Nyman
1996
7.5
Harry & Sonja
as Harry Olsson
1996
4.0
The Dogs of Riga
as Magnus Björk
1995
5.8
Zero Kelvin
as Randbæk
1995
6.4
The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery
as Herman Melvin
1995
5.0
The Kingdom
as Stig Helmers advokat
1994
7.5
Report to Heaven
as Gary
1994
6.8
The Last Dance
as Host in Norrköping
1993
4.9
Murder at the Savoy
as Security Manager
1993
5.7
The Slingshot
as Fritiof Schütt
1993
6.0
Wind
as Joe Heiser
1992
6.1
The Democratic Terrorist
as Carl Hamilton
1992
6.6
Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten
as Narrator (voice)
1992
0.0
The Ox
as Helge Roos
1991
6.5
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg
as Raoul Wallenberg
1990
5.8
Parker Kane
as Nathan Van Adams
1990
4.2
The Hunt for Red October
as Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)
1990
7.4
Smash
as Finansministerns sekreterare
1990
6.3
The Simpsons
as Stellan Skarsgård (voice)
1989
8.0
The Interrogation
as Carl Hamilton
1989
6.9
The Women on the Roof
as Willy
1989
4.1
Vildanden
as Gregers Werle
1989
6.0
Code Name Coq Rouge
as Carl Hamilton
1989
6.5
S/Y Joy
as Klas Larsson
1989
5.8
The Perfect Murder
as Axel Svensson
1988
5.9
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
as The Engineer
1988
6.9
Time of the Wolf
as Peder Ulfstand
1988
2.5
Friends
as Matt
1987
5.3
Hip Hip Hurrah!
as Sören Kröyer
1987
4.1
Jim and the Pirates Blom
as Gustav, Jim's Father
1987
5.5
The Serpent's Way
as Karl Orsa Markström
1986
5.6
Peter-No-Tail in Americat
as Pelle Swanson
1985
5.8
False as Water
as Stig
1985
5.1
August Strindberg: A Life
as Verner von Heidenstam
1985
4.7
Noon Wine
as Olaf Helton
1985
0.0
Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark
as Hamlet
1985
7.5
Åke and His World
as Ebenholtz
1984
6.0
The School of Wives
as Horace
1983
6.0
Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
1983
0.0
P & B
as Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson
1983
5.9
The Simple-Minded Murderer
as Sven
1982
6.9
American Playhouse
1982
6.2
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The Guldbagge Awards
as Self - Best Actor winner
1981
5.5
Det är din boll, Jim
as Journalist
1978
0.0
Hemåt i natten
as Kurt Sjöberg
1977
0.0
Tabu
as Jan-Erik
1977
4.6
The Intruders
as Peter Delaney
1975
1.3
Anita, Swedish Nymphet
as Erik
1973
5.1
The Wedding
as Roffe Eriksson
1973
1.7
Five Days in August
as Christer
1973
1.0
The Office Party
as Peter
1972
4.7
Raid in the Summer
as Erik
1972
1.0
Den byxlöse äventyraren
1971
2.5
Bombi Bitt och jag
as Bombi Bitt
1968
5.0
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Mamma Mia! 3
N/A
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