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Stellan Skarsgård – Bio
Stellan Skarsgård began acting at an early age and became a Swedish television star as the lead in the children's series Bombi Bitt (1968). He joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1972 and after more than a decade of leading theatre roles in Sweden, in 1982 he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival for his role in Den Enfaldige mördaren (The Simple Minded Murderer, Hans Alfredson, 1982), which brought him international attention.
He then began his Hollywood career starring in films and working with top directors such as Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997), Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting (1997), Gore Verbinski’s Pirates of the Caribbean (2006-2007) films, both Mamma Mia! (2008-2018) films for Universal, Miloš Forman’s Goya’s Ghosts (2006), Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons (2009), The 2 Thor and 2 Avenger’s films for Marvel, David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella (2015), Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018) and, most recently, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021), the sequel which is coming out this Autumn.
During this time he constantly returned to Europe to continue his work starring in films with leading independent filmmakers – such as Lars von Trier with whom he has worked with 5 times in Breaking the Waves (1996), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011) and Nymphomaniac (2013) and Hans Petter Moland in 5 films they have made together – Kjærlighetens kjøtere (Zero Kelvin, 1995), Aberdeen (2000), En ganske snill mann (A Somewhat Gentle Man, 2010), Kraftidioten (In Order of Disappearance, 2014) and Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses, 2019). Other films of note are Maria Sodahl’s Håp (Hope, 2019), Vaclav Varhoul’s Nabarvené ptáče (The Painted Bird, 2019), Volker Schlöndorff’s Rückkehr nach Montauk (Return to Montauk, 2017) and Marius Holst’s Kongen av Bastøy (King of the Devil’s Island, 2010). In 2019, he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a miniseries in the HBO drama Chernobyl. He recently starred in Tony Gilroy’s hit spin off Star Wars show Andor (2022) for Disney+, the second series of which he has just finished shooting.
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