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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Popularity155
Credits6.8
Rating105M
Budget426M
RevenueActing
Primarily2025 Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg Executive Producer
2025 Bo Being Bo Widerberg as Self
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: A Disney+ Day Special Look as Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Thor: Love and Thunder as Selvig
2022 Soul of a Man as Bon-Bon
2021 Dune as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
2021 The Ape Star as Tord Fjordmark (voice)
2020 Last Words as Zyberski
2020 11 Colours of the Bird as Self
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
2019 Out Stealing Horses as Trond
2018 The Wife Thanks
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
2017 Borg vs McEnroe as Lennart Bergelin
2017 Return to Montauk as Max Zorn
2016 Our Kind of Traitor as Dima
2016 The Hotel as Self
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron as Erik Selvig
2015 Cinderella as Grand Duke
2014 Hector and the Search for Happiness as Edward
2014 Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia' as Himself
2014 In Order of Disappearance as Nils Executive Producer
2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. I as Seligman
2013 Nymphomaniac: Vol. II as Seligman
2013 The Physician as Barber
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
2012 Our Need for Consolation as Narrator
2012 The Avengers as Selvig
2012 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women as Self
2012 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger as Self
2012 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Hard Copy
2012 Room 1112
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 Executive Producer
2010 Frankie & Alice as Oz
2010 Dimension
2010 As If I Am Not There as Doctor
2010 A Somewhat Gentle Man as Ulrik
2010 Behind the Moomins as Self
2009 Metropia as Ralph Parker (voice)
2009 Boogie Woogie as Bob Maclestone
2009 Angels & Demons as Commander Richter
2008 Birthing Mamma Mia! as Self
2008 God on Trial as Baumgarten
2008 Schrader's Exorcism as Self
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 WΔZ as Eddie Argo
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
2005 Beowulf & Grendel as Hrothgar
2005 Manderlay Thanks
2005 Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist as Father Lankester Merrin
2004 Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane as Self
2004 The Making of King Arthur as Self
2004 Exorcist: The Beginning as Father Lankester Merrin
2004 King Arthur as Cerdic
2004 Dogville Confessions as Self
2004 Eiffel Tower as Jakob
2003 Dogville as Chuck
2003 To Kill a Child as Narrator
2002 City of Ghosts as Joseph Kaspar
2002 No Good Deed as Tyrone
2002 Taking Sides as Wilhelm Furtwängler
2001 Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) as Felix
2001 The Glass House as Terence Glass
2001 Powder Keg as Harvey Jacobs
2001 Signs & Wonders as Alec
2000 Aberdeen as Tomas Associate Producer
2000 Dancer in the Dark as Doctor
2000 Light Keeps Me Company as Self
2000 Harlan County War as Warren Jakopovich
2000 Timecode as Alex Green
2000 I Remember Lena Svedberg as Narrator (Eng)
2000 Passion of Mind as William Granther
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
1997 Amistad as Tappan
1997 Good Will Hunting as Gerald Lambeau
1997 The Kingdom II as Stig Helmers advokat
1997 My Son the Fanatic as Schitz
1997 The Volcano Man as English voice (voice)
1997 Insomnia as Jonas Engström
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
1995 The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery as Herman Melvin
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 The Democratic Terrorist as Carl Hamilton
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 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
1987 Hip Hip Hurrah! as Sören Kröyer
1987 Jim and the Pirates Blom as Gustav, Jim's father Writer
1986 The Serpent's Way as Karl Orsa Markström
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 P & B as Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson
1982 The Simple-Minded Murderer as Sven
1978 Det är din boll, Jim as Journalist
1977 Hemåt i natten as Kurt Sjöberg
1977 Tabu as Jan-Erik
1975 The Intruders as Peter Delaney
1973 Anita, Swedish Nymphet as Erik
1973 The Wedding as Roffe Eriksson
1973 Five Days in August as Christer
1972 The Office Party as Peter
1972 Raid in the Summer as Erik