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.

Filmography

• 2026Dante — Dante (voice)
• 2026Please — Winston
• 2025Björn Frantzén - jakten på stjärnor — Narrator
• 2025Sentimental Value — Gustav Borg, Executive Producer
• 2024Dune: Part Two — Baron Harkonnen
• 2024What Remains — Sören Rank
• 2024Who's Who — Narrator
• Andor — Luthen Rael
• 2022Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look — Luthen Rael (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2022Soul of a Man — Bon-Bon
• 2022Thor: Love and Thunder — Selvig
• 2021Dune — Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
• Marvel Studios Legends — Erik Selvig (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2021The Ape Star — Tord Fjordmark (voice)
• 2020Last Words — Zyberski
• Chernobyl — Boris Shcherbina
• 2019Hope — Tomas
• 2019I'll Find You — Benno Moser
• 2019Out Stealing Horses — Trond
• 2019The Painted Bird — Hans
• 2018Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again — Bill / Kurt
• 2018The Man Who Killed Don Quixote — The Boss
• 2017Borg vs McEnroe — Lennart Bergelin
• 2017Gordon & Paddy — Gordon (voice)
• 2017Return to Montauk — Max Zorn
• 2017The Wife — Thanks
• 2016Our Kind of Traitor — Dima
• 2015Avengers: Age of Ultron — Erik Selvig
• 2015Cinderella — Grand Duke
• River — John River
• Der Medicus — Bader
• 2014Hector and the Search for Happiness — Edward
• 2014In Order of Disappearance — Nils, Executive Producer
• 2014Rouge Brésil — Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon
• 2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. I — Seligman
• 2013Nymphomaniac: Vol. II — Seligman
• 2013Romeo & Juliet — Prince of Verona
• Rouge Brésil — Villegagnon
• 2013The Physician — Barber
• 2013The Railway Man — Finlay
• 2013Thor: The Dark World — Erik Selvig
• 2012Liten Skär och alla små Brokiga — (voice)
• 2012Our Need for Consolation — Narrator
• Playhouse Presents — The Man
• 2012Room 1112
• 2012The Avengers — Selvig
• 2011Lykke Li: Sadness is a Blessing
• 2011Melancholia — Jack
• 2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — Martin Vanger
• 2011Thor — Erik Selvig
• 2010A Somewhat Gentle Man — Ulrik
• Arn: The Knight Templar — Birger Brosa
• 2010As If I Am Not There — Doctor
• 2010Boogie Woogie — Bob Maclestone
• 2010Dimension
• 2010Frankie & Alice — Oz
• 2010King of Devil's Island — Bestyrer Håkon, Executive Producer
• 2009Angels & Demons — Commander Richter
• 2009Metropia — Ralph Parker (voice)
• 2008Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End — Birger Brosa
• 2008God on Trial — Baumgarten
• 2008Mamma Mia! — Bill Anderson
• 2007Arn: The Knight Templar — Birger Brosa
• 2007Guilty Hearts — Stangl
• 2007Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End — Bootstrap Bill
• 2007WΔZ — Eddie Argo
• 2006Goya's Ghosts — Francisco Goya
• 2006Kill Your Darlings — Erik's Father
• 2006Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest — Bootstrap Bill
• 2005Beowulf & Grendel — Hrothgar
• 2005Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist — Father Lankester Merrin
• 2005Manderlay — Thanks
• 2004Eiffel Tower — Jakob
• Entourage — Verner Vollstedt
• 2004Exorcist: The Beginning — Father Lankester Merrin
• 2004King Arthur — Cerdic
• 2003Dogville — Chuck
• Helen of Troy — King Theseus of Athens
• 2003To Kill a Child — Narrator
• 2002City of Ghosts — Joseph Kaspar
• 2002No Good Deed — Tyrone
• 2002Taking Sides — Wilhelm Furtwängler
• 2001Kiss Kiss (Bang Bang) — Felix
• 2001Powder Keg — Harvey Jacobs
• 2001Signs & Wonders — Alec
• 2001The Glass House — Terence Glass
• The Hire — Harvey Jacobs
• 2000Aberdeen — Tomas, Associate Producer
• 2000D-Day — Lise's Mand
• 2000Dancer in the Dark — Doctor
• 2000Harlan County War — Warren Jakopovich
• 2000I Remember Lena Svedberg — Narrator (Eng)
• 2000Passion of Mind — William Granther
• 2000Timecode — Alex Green
• 1999Deep Blue Sea — Jim Whitlock
• 1998Ronin — Gregor
• 1998Savior — Peter
• 1998The Glass-Blower's Children — Albert
• 1998The Kingdom II — Stig Helmers advokat
• 1997Amistad — Tappan
• 1997Good Will Hunting — Gerald Lambeau
• 1997Insomnia — Jonas Engström
• 1997My Son the Fanatic — Schitz
• 1997The Volcano Man — English voice (voice)
• 1997Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
• 1996Breaking the Waves — Jan Nyman
• 1996Harry & Sonja — Harry Olsson
• Hundarna i Riga — Magnus Björk
• 1995The Dogs of Riga — Magnus Björk
• 1995The Jönsson Gang's Greatest Robbery — Herman Melvin
• 1995Zero Kelvin — Randbæk
• Report to Heaven — Gary
• The Kingdom — Stig Helmers advokat
• 1993Murder at the Savoy — Security Manager
• 1993The Last Dance — Host in Norrköping
• 1993The Slingshot — Fritiof Schütt
• 1992Den sanne lögnaren - Fritiof Nilsson Piraten — Narrator (voice)
• 1992The Democratic Terrorist — Carl Hamilton
• 1992Wind — Joe Heiser
• 1991The Ox — Helge Roos
• 1990Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg — Raoul Wallenberg
• 1990Parker Kane — Nathan Van Adams
• Smash — Finansministerns sekreterare
• 1990The Hunt for Red October — Capt. 2nd Viktor Tupolev (V.K. Konovalov)
• 1989Code Name Coq Rouge — Carl Hamilton
• 1989S/Y Joy — Klas Larsson
• 1989The Interrogation — Carl Hamilton
• The Simpsons — Stellan Skarsgård (voice)
• 1989The Women on the Roof — Willy
• Vildanden — Gregers Werle
• 1988The Perfect Murder — Axel Svensson
• 1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being — The Engineer
• 1988Time of the Wolf — Peder Ulfstand
• 1987Friends — Matt
• 1987Hip Hip Hurrah! — Sören Kröyer
• 1987Jim and the Pirates Blom — Gustav, Jim's Father, Writer
• 1986The Serpent's Way — Karl Orsa Markström
• August Strindberg: A Life — Verner von Heidenstam
• 1985False as Water — Stig
• 1985Hamlet — Hamlet
• 1985Noon Wine — Olaf Helton
• 1985Peter-No-Tail in Americat — Pelle Swanson
• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — Hamlet
• 1984Åke and His World — Ebenholtz
• 1983Alf Sjöberg - mästaren
• 1983P & B — Karl-Johan "Charlie" Pettersson
• 1983The School of Wives — Horace
• American Playhouse — Olaf Helton
• 1982The Simple-Minded Murderer — Sven
• 1978Det är din boll, Jim — Journalist
• 1977Hemåt i natten — Kurt Sjöberg
• 1977Tabu — Jan-Erik
• 1975The Intruders — Peter Delaney
• 1973Anita, Swedish Nymphet — Erik
• 1973Five Days in August — Christer
• 1973The Wedding — Roffe Eriksson
• 1972Raid in the Summer — Erik
• 1972The Office Party — Peter
• Bombi Bitt och jag — Bombi Bitt
• Olsson per sekund eller Det finns ingen anledning till oro — den långsamme
• The Eighth Commandment
• The Kiss
• Untitled Dakota Fanning Thriller Series — Brant

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2025Being Bo Widerberg — Self
• Variety & CNN Actors on Actors — Self
• 202011 Colours of the Bird — Self
• 2019Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria — Self
• 2018Filmworker — Self
• 2017Hasse Alfredson - Ett porträtt — Self
• 2016The Hotel — Self
• 2015Christina Lindberg: The Original Eyepatch Wearing Butt Kicking Movie Babe — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2014Erik Skjoldbjærg and Stellan Skarsgard on 'Insomnia' — Himself
• 2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Characters - Salander, Blomkvist and Vanger — Self
• 2012The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Men Who Hate Women — Self
• 2010Behind the Moomins — Self
• Skavlan — Self - Guest
• 2008Schrader's Exorcism — Self
• 2007Wrath of Gods — Self
• 2006Svenska ord i bild och tal — Self
• 2004Blood on the Land: The Making of a King — Self
• 2004Dogville Confessions — Self
• Kulturplatz — Self
• 2004Ronin: Filming in the Fast Lane — Self
• 2004The Making of King Arthur — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2000Light Keeps Me Company — Self
• The Guldbagge Awards — Self - Best Actor winner
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• The Oscars — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee
• Bow Tie — Himself