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Stellan Skarsgard

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  • Date of Birth: 1951-06-13 (age 75)
  • Nationality: SwedenSweden

Stellan John Skarsgård (, Swedish: [ˈstɛ̂lːan ˈskɑ̌ːʂɡoːɖ] ; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier, appearing in Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Nymphomaniac (2013).

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Stellan John Skarsgård (, Swedish: [ˈstɛ̂lːan ˈskɑ̌ːʂɡoːɖ] ; born 13 June 1951) is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier, appearing in Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Nymphomaniac (2013). Skarsgård's early English-speaking film roles include The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Good Will Hunting (1997), Ronin (1998), and King Arthur (2004). His accolades include two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award. Skarsgård has since starred in blockbusters such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007). He also starred in the musical Mamma Mia! (2008) and its 2018 sequel Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, the thriller Angels and Demons (2009), and the neo-noir thriller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He played Dr. Erik Selvig in five Marvel Cinematic Universe films, starting with Thor (2011), and portrayed Baron Harkonnen in Denis Villeneuve's two-part Dune adaptation, Dune (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). For his performance as an aging, once-celebrated filmmaker in Sentimental Value (2025), Skarsgård won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is also known for his work in television portraying Boris Shcherbina in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie, and Luthen Rael in the Star Wars political spy thriller series Andor (2022–2025).

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  • Is the father of actors Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, Valter Skarsgård, and Sam Skarsgård.
  • Is fluent in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German & English.
  • Was a massive Tarzan fan growing up & would watch the ones with Johnny Weissmuller on VHS. He was even considered to play Tarzan in the 1984 version, Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). Ironically, years later his son Alexander Skarsgård played the title character in The Legend of Tarzan (2016).
  • Fathered a total of 8 children over a period of five decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s).
  • Was considered for the part of Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List (1993).
  • Became a father for the 1st time at age 25 when his 1st \[now ex\] wife My Skarsgård gave birth to their son Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård, aka Alexander Skarsgård, on August 25, 1976.
  • Became a father for the 8th time at age 61 when his 2nd wife Megan Everett-Skarsgard gave birth to their son Kolbjörn Skarsgård on August 24, 2012.
  • He has appeared in four films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Good Will Hunting (1997), Dune: Part One (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024) and Sentimental Value (2025).
  • "In Hollywood you got work around you all the time. You can't get a"
  • "It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me"
  • "There is no overacting, only untrue acting."
  • "I'm not religious or anything, but to me it's great fun and it's nice"
  • "\[on his first time on stage\] I played a heap of snow in a school play."
  • "Th main pleasure of working with Lars \[von Trier\] is that you feel absolutely free and safe, and you can't fail because if you fuck up it's considered good...We've matured a little, hopefully, but hopefully not too much."
  • "\[on any potential sexual awareness emanating from making "Nymphomaniac'I and II\] Well, it's not only about that, but if you get a chance to learn about something that's good, isn't it? I'd never heard about the 'silent duck' before. I have a lot of female friends who consider me one of their girlfriends because they talk very openly in front of me, so I've heard quite a lot."
  • "I was born naked and walk around naked at home. My parents walked around naked and when my friends in school still thought babies were brought by storks I could tell them how they were really made. I have a very relaxed relationship\[p with my genitals.\"
  • "\on [Robin Williams\] It was as though he had three brains going at full speed all the time.\"
  • "\on shooting [Return to Montauk (2017)\] It won't sell a lot of popcorn, but it's right up my alley.\"

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