Bill Skarsgård
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 heroes), Bill specializes 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-
Skarsgård’s first English-language role was a supporting role in Joe Wright’s Tolstoy adaptation, Anna Karenina (2012), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and starred Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Kelly Macdonald. Skarsgård joined the Norwegian cast directed by Torun Lian for the feature adaptation of Knut Hamsun’s Victoria (2013).
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
Though it was barely released, Alison Eastwood’s Battlecreek(2017) provided Skarsgård with his first American starring role, opposite Paula Malcomson and Toby Hemingway. He provided part of the male background to the female-dominant cast of Sam Levinson’s divisive Assassination Nation (2018), with Odessa Young, Suki Waterhouse, and Bella Thorne. Skarsgård’s second involvement in a studio franchise was a small role in David Leitch’s Deadpool 2 (2018), with Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, and Morena Baccarin.
Dan Berk’s and Robert Olsen’s indie black comedy, Villains (2019), provided Skarsgård with a starring (and bloody) role opposite Maika Monroe, and Kyra Sedgwick; his next American movie was another indie, Edson Oda’s Sundance-premiering Nine Days (2020), with Winston Duke, Zazie Beetz, and Benedict Wong. Skarsgård was cast in a prominent spot in Antonio Campos’ Netflix WWII-era drama, The Devil All the Time (2020), with Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and Riley Keough. Skarsgård was support to star John Boyega in writer-director Chase Palmer’s black crime comedy, Naked Singularity (2021), and then later that year appeared (via voice and motion capture) in the MCU release, Eternals.
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 (
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. He was released by Focus Features/Universal Pictures. Skarsgård potentially has his biggest role as the title character of the long-awaited reboot, The Crow (2024) shifting his Hollywood profile toward leading male heroes.
Skarsgård starred in the David Yarovesky-directed and Sam Raimi-produced horror-thriller, Locked (date to be announced), co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Ashley Cartwright, and then Skarsgård played Count Orlok in the notable cast of filmmaker Robert Eggers’ version of Nosferatu (2024), co-starring Emma Corrin, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Ineson, and Lily-Rose Depp, and released by Focus Features.
Bill Skarsgård (who also executive produced) co-starred with Nicolas Cage (also producer) and Laura Harrier in director/writer/producer Andrew Niccol’s crime movie sequel, Lords of War (date to be announced), co-produced by Kasbah Films, Saturn Films, and Vendome Pictures.
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Personal Details
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”.
Filmography
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- 2024 |
- 2024 | Boy Kills WorldasBoy
Boy Kills World
A fever dream action film that follows Boy, a deaf person with a vibrant imagination. When his family is murdered, he is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
- 2023 | John Wick: Chapter 4asMarquis
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
- 2022 | Burn All My Lettersas Sven Stolpe
- 2022 |
- 2021 |
- 2021 | Naked SingularityasDane
Naked Singularity
An idealistic young New York City public defender burned out by the system, on the brink of disbarment, and seeing signs of the universe collapsing all around him decides to rob a multi-million drug deal of one of his clients.
- 2021 |
- 2020 | The Devil All the Timeas Willard
- 2019 | Villainsas Mickey
- 2019 | It Chapter TwoasPennywise
It Chapter Two
Twenty-seven years after their first encounter with the terrifying Pennywise, the Losers Club have grown up and moved away, until a devastating phone call brings them back.
- 2018 | Assassination NationasMark
Assassination Nation
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
- 2017 | Battlecreekas Henry
- 2017 | Moomins and the Winter Wonderlandas Moomintroll
- 2017 |
- 2017 | Atomic BlondeasMerkel
Atomic Blonde
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
- 2013 | Victoriaas Otto
- 2011 | Simon & the Oaksas Simon
- 2011 | The Crown Jewelsas Richard Persson
- 2010 | Behind Blue Skiesas Martin
- 2010 | Simple Simonas Simon
- 2009 | Kenny Beginsas Pontus
Some Facts About Bill Skarsgård
Tall Family: Even though Bill Skarsgård is a towering 6’ 3½”, he is the shortest of his brothers in the Skarsgård family.
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