Bill Skarsgård

Actor, Producer, Director

Birthdate: August 9, 1990 (35 Years Old)

Birthplace: Vällingby, Sweden

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-starred with Peter Dallein Hannes Holm’s Swedish drama, Behind Blue Skies (2010), followed by a co-starring role with Alicia Vikander in Ella Lemhagen’s murder mystery drama, The Crown Jewels (2011), and a starring role in the award-winning WWII family drama, Simon and the Oaks (2011). 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, Allegiant (2016), with Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Miles Teller, and Ansel Elgort, was on the good side of the ledger. After a brief appearance in the Charlize Theron-starring Atomic Blonde (2017), Skarsgård made a stark appearance in the two-part Itsaga, barely recognizable under Pennywise’s garish clown makeup and costume. 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 offered 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 supported 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 (date to be announced), starring Adrien Brody, Sophie Cookson, Paz Vega, Oliver Platt, and Eddie Marsan. 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. Skarsgård joined veteran American independent filmmaker Gus Van Sant to portray 1977 Indianapolis hostage taker Tony Kiritsis in a dramatized version of actual events, Dead Man’s Wire (2025), written by Austin Kolodney, co-starring Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha’la, Colman Domingo, Al Pacino, John Robinson and Kelly Lynch, and which premiered out of competition in the Venice Film Festival before a wide release by Row K Entertainment. Bill Skarsgård played the role of Little John in director/writer Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood (2026), starring Hugh Jackman (in the title role), with Jodie Comer, Murray Bartlett, and Noah Jupe, produced by Lyrical Media/Ryder Picture Company and distributed by A24. Skarsgård starred in director/co-writer Peter Berg’s WW2 football-themed drama, The Mosquito Bowl (date to be announced), co-written by Mark L. Smith and co-starring Nicholas Galitzine, Ray Nicholson, Jack Scott, Pat McAfee, Dominic Bogart, and Brodie Henson, and which was produced by Imagine Entertainment/Film 44. 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 life

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”.

Known For

The Death of Robin Hood

(2026)

Dead Man's Wire

(2026)

Nosferatu

(2024)

John Wick: Chapter 4

Marquis (2023)

Barbarian

Keith (2022)

Bill Skarsgård Movies

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2025 |
Locked
Locked
2025
Horror, Thriller
A thief breaking into a luxury SUV realizes that he has slipped into a sophisticated game of psychological horror.
asEddie Barrish
2024 |
The Crow
The Crow
2024
Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.
asEric
2024 |
Boy Kills World
Boy Kills World
2024
Action, Crime, Thriller
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.
asBoy
2023 |
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023
Action, Crime, Thriller
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.
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asMarquis
2022 |
Barbarian
Barbarian
2022
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
asKeith
2021 |
Naked Singularity
Naked Singularity
2021
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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.
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asDane
2021 |
Nine Days
Nine Days
2021
Drama, Fantasy
A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born.
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asKane
2021 |
Eternals
Eternals
2021
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
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asKro
2019 |
It Chapter Two
It Chapter Two
2019
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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.
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asPennywise
2018 |
Assassination Nation
Assassination Nation
2018
Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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.
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asMark
2017 |
It
It
2017
Horror
In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
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asPennywise
2017 |
Atomic Blonde
Atomic Blonde
2017
Action, Thriller
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.
asMerkel
2016 |
Allegiant
Allegiant
2016
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago to finally discover the shocking truth of the world outside.
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asMatthew
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as Count Orlok
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as Tony Kiritsis
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as Edward
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as Anton