Date of birth: 1951-06-13
Place of birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Stellan John Skarsgård

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.

2000-09-01
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her

2006-07-06
Jack's got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the O

1996-07-05
In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who pray

2007-05-19
Captain Jack Sparrow, that wily charmer of a pirate, is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker when his pirat

1997-12-05
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too

2003-05-21
A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange fo

1998-06-01
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro

2001-09-14
When Ruby and Rhett's parents are killed in a car accident, their carefree teenage lives are suddenl

2011-04-21
Against his father Odin's will, The Mighty Thor - a powerful but arrogant warrior god - recklessly r

1990-03-02
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast un

1988-02-05
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an

2002-06-28
While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon

2004-08-20
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in

2005-09-14
The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. He

2006-11-08
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest

2010-03-19
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether

2002-03-07
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation r

1982-02-12
The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's

2001-11-07
A hit man who wants out of the business is targeted by old colleagues.

2008-07-03
A spirited young bride-to-be living with her single mother on a small Greek island secretly invites

1997-12-10
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads th

1989-08-25
His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a g

2008-09-03
In the Jewish tradition of arguing with God, Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz decide to put God on Tria

1998-09-25
A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its w

2002-09-10
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his sha

2012-04-25
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of th

2004-07-07
The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legen

1997-03-14
Detectives Jonas and Erik are called to the midnight sun country of northern Norway to investigate a

2000-09-08
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers

2006-04-12
A desperate young writer is lured on a wild ride through the desert by a mysterious woman in this da

2005-05-20
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he

2009-04-20
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of

2007-12-25
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land

2008-08-22
Arn has served his term in the Holy land and returns home to be reunited with his beloved Cecilia. W

1993-09-24
Stockholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing bro

2009-10-21
In the near future, oil reserves are nearly depleted and Europe is connected by series of undergroun

2007-05-19
There is something horribly wrong with the bodies found in the dark city streets. Some are mutilated

1995-02-03
When Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry tries to break doctor Busé out of jail, they get Herman Melvin inste

2011-05-26
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens

1978-05-01
Jim Jansson is a woodcarver who gets retired.

1985-12-14
Peter-No-Tail (Pelle Svanslös) is a cat who was born without a tail. He compensates this by studying

2024-06-21
In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to s

1973-12-25
Anita, a young woman with a troubled childhood and a hunger for love, finds a soul mate in Erik, a k

2001-02-09
Under the influence of signs and premonitions, a man allows himself to veer in and out of a love aff

1992-08-21
The West German security police, Verfassungsschutz, need help to infiltrate a group connected to the

2011-12-14
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece fr

2007-07-30
Over the course of this drama's six separate stories, a variety of couples struggle with the infidel

1990-10-05
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World

2010-12-16
Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are

2010-12-10
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her tr

1987-02-12
Jim Olsson, eight years old, lives in a small, boring town. His father has passed away recently, but

2000-08-26
Carl-Gustaf Nykvist's documentary about his father, Sven Nykvist. The film is based on Sven's memoir

1998-02-27
Based on the novel by Maria Gripe, this is the story of two children, Klas and Klara, growing up in

2022-02-25
Adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe short story called “Bon-Bon”. The film is a dark comedy about a man

1989-09-25
Carl Hamilton (Coq Rouge, Swedens James Bond) is called before KU (Swedens answer to the American co

1995-09-29
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Gr

1972-03-06
Erik works during the summer at a filling station for boats in the Stockholm archipelago and devotes

2013-10-30
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith ret

2007-05-06
When Canadian director Sturla Gunnarsson set upon Iceland to film Beowulf & Grendel starring Gerard

1983-12-10
Pettersson and Bendel are both worn, run-down and broke. Despite this they decide to start a busines

1985-11-08
John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made h

2008-08-23
A documentary chronicling director Paul Schrader's ride through hell and back while making film hist

1984-10-26
Åke and his world is a long, lyrical study of a Swedish country doctor of the 1930s. Åke is the doct

2013-12-02
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A t

1987-09-04
The life and times of the Scandinavian artists' colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast durin

2004-10-11
A behind-the-scenes featurette that focuses on John Frankenheimer's approach to the 1998 film "Ronin

1986-12-25
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt.

1993-12-25
Blackpool, a dancing contest, a dead woman. This is the opening scene of this movie, which then cont

2004-08-24
Short documentary of the making of Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur (2004).

1972-10-04
Office executive Knut Levin decides to arrange a party at work. Things don't go exactly according to

1977-01-28
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a you

1989-09-15
An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works

1985-01-21
The drama, adapted from a story by Katherine Anne Porter, tells of a Swedish immigrant who arrives o

2013-12-25
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and van

2000-05-19
A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly

1989-05-30
A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. Th

1977-01-29
Harri is one of Sweden's many Finnish immigrant-workers. While in Sweden, the illiterate Harri marri

2014-02-21
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the

1996-02-08
Harry works as a hairdresser in a mental hospital. He likes to play bingo and is married to Anna. On

1987-11-20
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream

2014-08-14
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells h

1995-11-09
A lifeboat floats ashore at the coast of Skåne. Inside are two dead men who who've been murdered. Po

2016-05-05
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian mil

1997-10-21
Pakistani taxi-driver Parvez and prostitute Bettina find themselves trapped in the middle when Islam

2013-12-25
The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life an

2013-12-25
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him

1992-09-11
In 1983, yacht sailor Will Parker leads an American crew financed by millionaire Morgan Weld to defe

2022-07-06
After his retirement is interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinct

2012-03-20
Cast and crew discuss the success of the novel, transitioning it to film and condensing it for the m

2012-03-20
Cast and crew, including Mara, discuss her casting.

1988-08-03
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been

2010-04-16
In London's contemporary art world, everyone has a hustle. Art Spindle runs a high-end gallery: he h
2008-12-31
This short documentary is about the making of the 2008 film musical "Mamma Mia!".

2015-04-22
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mighti

1973-01-25
Viveca is 31, divorced, and has a son of 6 years. She and her friend Aud have left the hectic everyd

2000-04-28
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tr

2022-09-08
Celebrate Disney+ Day with a special look at the Star Wars original series Andor.

1991-11-22
In desperation brought on by near-starvation, Helge Roos kills his master's ox to feed his wife and

1992-06-20
Documentary about the Swedish writer Fritiof Nilsson Piraten.

2012-09-21

1999-07-28
Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to de

2013-09-12
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the

2001-06-01
The Driver is drafted by the UN to rescue a wounded war photographer named Harvey Jacobs from out of

2004-06-27
A documentary on the creation of Lars von Trier's fascinating drama Dogville starring amongst others

1990-08-05
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murd

1983-12-22
Alf Sjöberg (1903-1980) was Swedens greatest theater director of the 20th century and as a film dire

1983-12-25
The elderly Arnolphe has decided to marry a young woman, Agnes, whom he has fallen in love with. She

2024-09-27
Stina Wirsén’s beloved characters from the Who series—Little Teddy, Cat, Birdie, and Bunny—are all g

2025-08-20
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned

2017-09-08
The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain

2018-05-19
Toby, a cynical film director finds himself trapped in the outrageous delusions of an old Spanish sh

1993-10-06
A famous industrialist is murdered at a restaurant in Malmoe. Police inspector Martin Beck in Stockh

2000-01-07
A psychological romantic thriller where fantasy and reality become indistinguishable for a woman lea

2000-01-01
Four people plan to rob a bank on new year's eve, when no one will notice because of the celebration

2012-02-01
In room 1112 at hotel Riverton during Göteborg's 2011 film festival, director Jonas Selberg Augustsé

2017-05-11
Author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he encounters

2016-04-29
The Hotel is the last part of a trilogy about travelling. The first two were The Atlantic (Atlanten,

2018-07-18
Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In

1998-07-17
The mutant fetus is born. Dr. Helmer comes under heavy scrutiny for a botched operation that left a

2019-09-12
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War

1985-01-07
Prince Hamlet is the son of the late king. He hears from a ghost that the current king, Claudius, ha

2012-06-06
Swedish writer Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) was a literary sensation who after a few productive years,

1975-07-02
When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings aw
2017-09-14

1971-02-26
Lasse-Maja's (actually Lars Molin's) peculiar fate and adventure from his younger years until 1813,

2017-12-22
The forest’s police chief Gordon is about to retire and he needs to find a new assistant. Paddy, a c

2019-03-08
November 1999. 67-year-old Trond lives in new-found solitude and looks forward to spending New Year'

1997-12-12
A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with vo

2018-05-11
The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's de

1997-04-18
Documentary about Swedish author Sture Dahlström.

2014-07-01
Conversation between Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on the making of the 1997 film 'Insomnia

1973-10-31
"The Marriage" - Eva and Kent are planning to get married. Their bridal stag parties causes some pro

2021-09-15
Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding,

2004-01-27
A man tells his wife about a dream he had last night, he was in Paris and the Eiffel Tower was missi

2019-07-05
Inspired by stories of Polish musicians from the 1930s and 40s. Two young lovers, Robert, a Catholic

2003-01-25
Mother, father and child in the kitchen. They've run out of sugar and the child is sent over to gran

2019-11-22
Together for 20 years, a couple that has grown apart over time receives difficult news that will imp

2010-08-24
A poetic gangster story and a thriller about the passage of time. Recorded between 1991 and 1997 but

2006-11-26
Ronny Svensson and Markus Strömqvist have produced a documentary "Svenska Ord i bild och tal", which

2019-09-06
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced a

2000-01-30
Carl Johan De Geer remembers his old friend Lena Svedberg. He talks about how they used to make thei
2010-08-06
Interviews with the English language voice cast of 'Moomins and the Comet Chase.'

1988-01-01
The young nobleman Inge is riding through Sweden, looking for his twin brother, Arild. He meets a gr

2020-10-21
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors

2024-02-27
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of

2021-04-27
The orphan Jonna is longing for a mother. One day, an old car stops outside the orphanage and out st

2020-03-11
A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives

2015-03-06
When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmot

2010-07-26
A harsh dose of cinematic realism about a harsh time – the Bosnian War of the 1990s – Juanita Wilson

2025-07-02
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and

2025-04-24

2014-06-05
Adaptation of the Jean-Christophe Ruffin novel