Stellan Skarsgård
June 13, 1951 (74 years old) in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
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
Credits
- 2025 · Variety & CNN Actors on Actors as Self
- 2025 · Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg
- 2025 · Being Bo Widerberg as Self
- 2022 · Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2022 · Soul of a Man as Bon-Bon
- 2020 · 11 Colours of the Bird as Self
- 2019 · Out Stealing Horses as Trond
- 2017 · Borg vs McEnroe as Lennart Bergelin
- 2017 · Return to Montauk as Max Zorn
- 2016 · Our Kind of Traitor as Dima
- 2014 · Hector and the Search for Happiness as Edward
- 2014 · Rouge Brésil as Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon
- 2013 · Rouge Brésil as Villegagnon
- 2010 · Frankie & Alice as Oz
- 2010 · A Somewhat Gentle Man as Ulrik
- 2008 · Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
- 2008 · God on Trial as Baumgarten
- 2008 · Schrader's Exorcism as Self
- 2007 · WΔZ as Eddie Argo
- 2005 · Beowulf & Grendel as Hrothgar
- 2005 · Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin
- 2004 · Eiffel Tower as Jakob
- 2002 · City of Ghosts as Joseph Kaspar
- 2002 · No Good Deed as Tyrone
- 2001 · Powder Keg as Harvey Jacobs
- 2000 · Light Keeps Me Company as Self
- 2000 · Passion of Mind as William Granther
- 1998 · The Kingdom II as Stig Helmers advokat
- 1997 · Amistad as Tappan
- 1997 · Insomnia as Jonas Engström
- 1996 · Hundarna i Riga as Magnus Björk
- 1995 · The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery as Herman Melvin
- 1994 · Report to Heaven as Gary
- 1992 · The Democratic Terrorist as Carl Hamilton
- 1990 · Smash as Finansministerns sekreterare
- 1989 · Vildanden as Gregers Werle
- 1987 · Hip Hip Hurrah! as Sören Kröyer
- 1987 · Jim and the Pirates Blom as Gustav, Jim's Father
- 1986 · The Serpent's Way as Karl Orsa Markström
- 1985 · August Strindberg: A Life as Verner von Heidenstam
- 1982 · The Simple-Minded Murderer as Sven
- 1977 · Hemåt i natten as Kurt Sjöberg
- 1973 · Anita, Swedish Nymphet as Erik
- 1973 · Five Days in August as Christer
- 1968 · Bombi Bitt och jag as Bombi Bitt
- Future · Mamma Mia! 3 as
- 2025 · Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor as Narrator
- 2024 · Who's Who as Narrator
- 2024 · What Remains as Sören Rank
- 2024 · Dune: Part Two as Baron Harkonnen
- 2022 · Andor as Luthen Rael
- 2022 · Thor: Love and Thunder as Selvig
- 2021 · Dune as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
- 2021 · The Ape Star as Tord Fjordmark (voice)
- 2021 · Marvel Studios Legends as Erik Selvig (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2020 · Last Words as Zyberski
- 2019 · Hope as Tomas
- 2019 · The Painted Bird as Hans
- 2019 · Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria as Self
- 2019 · I'll Find You as Benno Moser
- 2019 · Chernobyl as Boris Shcherbina
- 2018 · Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again as Bill Anderson / Kurt Anderson
- 2018 · The Man Who Killed Don Quixote as The Boss
- 2018 · Filmworker as Self
- 2017 · Gordon & Paddy as Gordon (voice)
- 2017 · Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt as Self
- 2016 · The Hotel as Self
- 2015 · River as John River
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2015 · Avengers: Age of Ultron as Erik Selvig
- 2015 · Cinderella as Grand Duke
- 2014 · Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia' as Himself
- 2014 · In Order of Disappearance as Nils
- 2013 · Nymphomaniac: Vol. II as Seligman
- 2013 · The Physician as Barber
- 2013 · Nymphomaniac: Vol. I as Seligman
- 2013 · The Railway Man as Finlay
- 2013 · Thor: The Dark World as Erik Selvig
- 2013 · Romeo & Juliet as Prince of Verona
- 2012 · Liten Skär och alla små Brokiga as (voice)
- 2012 · Our Need for Consolation as Narrator
- 2012 · The Avengers as Selvig
- 2012 · Playhouse Presents as
- 2012 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger as Self
- 2012 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women as Self
- 2012 · Room 1112 as
- 2011 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as Martin Vanger
- 2011 · Melancholia as Jack
- 2011 · Thor as Erik Selvig
- 2010 · King of Devil's Island as Bestyrer Håkon
- 2010 · Dimension as
- 2010 · Behind the Moomins as Self
- 2010 · As If I Am Not There as Doctor
- 2010 · Boogie Woogie as Bob Maclestone
- 2010 · Arn: The Knight Templar as Birger Brosa
- 2009 · Metropia as Ralph Parker (voice)
- 2009 · Angels & Demons as Commander Richter
- 2009 · Skavlan as Self - Guest
- 2008 · Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End as Birger Brosa
- 2008 · Mamma Mia! as Bill Anderson
- 2007 · Arn: The Knight Templar as Birger Brosa
- 2007 · Guilty Hearts as Stangl
- 2007 · Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End as Bootstrap Bill
- 2007 · Wrath of Gods as Self
- 2006 · Svenska ord i bild och tal as Self
- 2006 · Goya's Ghosts as Francisco Goya
- 2006 · Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner
- 2006 · Kill Your Darlings as Erik's Father
- 2004 · Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
- 2004 · Kulturplatz as Self
- 2004 · The Making of King Arthur as Self
- 2004 · Exorcist: The Beginning as Father Lankester Merrin
- 2004 · Entourage as Verner Vollstedt
- 2004 · King Arthur as Cerdic
- 2004 · Dogville Confessions as Self
- 2003 · Dogville as Chuck
- 2003 · Helen of Troy as King Theseus of Athens
- 2003 · To Kill a Child as Narrator
- 2002 · Taking Sides as Wilhelm Furtwängler
- 2001 · Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Felix
- 2001 · The Glass House as Terence Glass
- 2001 · The Hire as Harvey Jacobs
- 2001 · Signs & Wonders as Alec
- 2000 · Aberdeen as Tomas
- 2000 · Dancer in the Dark as Doctor
- 2000 · Harlan County War as Warren Jakopovich
- 2000 · Timecode as Alex Green
- 2000 · I Remember Lena Svedberg as Narrator (Eng)
- 2000 · D-Day as Lise's Mand
- 1999 · Deep Blue Sea as Jim Whitlock
- 1998 · Ronin as Gregor
- 1998 · Savior as Peter
- 1998 · The Glass-Blower's Children as Albert
- 1997 · Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier as
- 1997 · Good Will Hunting as Gerald Lambeau
- 1997 · My Son the Fanatic as Schitz
- 1997 · The Volcano Man as English voice (voice)
- 1996 · Breaking the Waves as Jan Nyman
- 1996 · Harry & Sonja as Harry Olsson
- 1995 · The Dogs of Riga as Magnus Björk
- 1995 · Zero Kelvin as Randbæk
- 1994 · The Kingdom as Stig Helmers advokat
- 1993 · The Last Dance as Host in Norrköping
- 1993 · Murder at the Savoy as Security Manager
- 1993 · The Slingshot as Fritiof Schütt
- 1992 · Wind as Joe Heiser
- 1992 · Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten as Narrator (voice)
- 1991 · The Ox as Helge Roos
- 1990 · Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg as Raoul Wallenberg
- 1990 · Parker Kane as Nathan Van Adams
- 1990 · The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Stellan Skarsgård (voice)
- 1989 · The Interrogation as Carl Hamilton
- 1989 · The Women on the Roof as Willy
- 1989 · Code Name Coq Rouge as Carl Hamilton
- 1989 · S/Y Joy as Klas Larsson
- 1988 · The Perfect Murder as Axel Svensson
- 1988 · The Unbearable Lightness of Being as The Engineer
- 1988 · Time of the Wolf as Peder Ulfstand
- 1987 · Friends as Matt
- 1985 · Peter-No-Tail in Americat as Pelle Swanson
- 1985 · False as Water as Stig
- 1985 · Noon Wine as Olaf Helton
- 1985 · Den tragiska historien om Hamlet - Prins av Danmark as Hamlet
- 1984 · Åke and His World as Ebenholtz
- 1983 · The School of Wives as Horace
- 1983 · Alf Sjöberg - mästaren as
- 1983 · P & B as Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson
- 1982 · American Playhouse as
- 1981 · The Guldbagge Awards as Self - Best Actor winner
- 1978 · Det är din boll, Jim as Journalist
- 1977 · Tabu as Jan-Erik
- 1975 · The Intruders as Peter Delaney
- 1973 · The Wedding as Roffe Eriksson
- 1972 · The Office Party as Peter
- 1972 · Raid in the Summer as Erik
- 1971 · Den byxlöse äventyraren as




