Birthdate: Aug 9, 1990
Bill Skarsgård (birthname: Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård) is becoming one of Hollywood’s favorite actors to bring horrific bad guys to life. Striking a different profile from his suave, muscled brother Alexander (who usually plays heros), Bill is specializing in vivid antagonists, such as evil clown Pennywise in the two-part Andy Muscietti adaptation of Stephen King’s It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019), with Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, and James Ransone, as well as baddie Kro in Chloé Zhao’s Marvel Studios production, Eternals (2021), with Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, and Barry Keoghan. Skarsgård’s feature debut was the Swedish thriller, White Water Fury(2000), with brother Alexander. His first starring role was in one of his good-guy parts in the title role of Andreas Ohman’s comedy, Simple Simon (2010), with Cecilia Forss. Skarsgård co-
Although much of Bill Skarsgård’s Hollywood work has been devoted to antagonists, his Hollywood debut in the third film in the Divergent Series, Allegian
Bill Skarsgård starred in and executive-produced Zach Cregger’s horror movie, Barbarian (2022), with Georgina Campbell and Justin Long.
Joining his third franchise, Bill Skarsgård starred opposite Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yan, and Laurence Fishburne in John Wick: Chapter 4(2023). Skarsgård played a deaf-mute named “Boy” in writer-director Moritz Mohr’s feature debut, the revenge drama Boy Kills World (2023), produced by Sam Raimi, and co-starring Jessica Rothe, Yayan Ruhian, and Isaiah Mustafa. In one of his few period roles to date, Skarsgård portrayed Spain’s King Philip II in Lee Tamahori’s epic, Emperor (
Skarsgård followed these projects by starring in the horror-thriller, Locked (date to be announced), with Anthony Hopkins, and Ashley Cartwright co-starring under David Yaroevsky’s direction, and produced by Sam Raimi. Skarsgård co-starred opposite Nicolas Cage in director/writer/producer Andrew Niccol’s sequel to 2005’s Lord of War, Lords of War (date to be announced), with Laura Harrier.
Bill Skarsgård starred as Count Orlok in filmmaker Robert Eggers’s highly anticipated version of the classic Dracula tale, Nosferatu (2024), with Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe, and released by Focus Features/Universal Pictures. Skarsgård has potentially his biggest role to date as the title character of the long-awaited reboot, The Crow (date to be announced), possibly shifting his Hollywood profile toward leading-men heroes.
Stockholm-born Bill Skarsgård was raised by actor father Stellan Skarsgård and doctor mother My Skarsgård. He has four brothers, including three brothers who are actors (Alexander, Gustaf, and Valter), as well as Sam; one sister, Eija; and two half-brothers, Ossian and Kolbjörn, from father Stellan’s second marriage to Megan Everett. Skarsgård lives with his partner, Swedish actor Alida Morberg; the couple has one child. His height is 6’ 3½”.
Winner, Shooting Star, Berlin Film Festival (2012).
Tall Family: Even though Bill Skarsgård is a towering 6’ 3½”, he is the shortest of his brothers in the Skarsgård family.