Acting
Aug 8, 1990
Vällingby, Sweden
Bill Skarsgård
Acting
Biography
Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (Swedish: [ˈbɪlːˈskɑ̌ːʂɡoːɖ]; born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor, model, producer, and director. He is best known for portraying Pennywise in the horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019) and the television series It: Welcome to Derry (2025–present) and Count Orlok in Nosferatu (2024). Skarsgård's roles as monsters and other non-human characters have led media sources to describe him as a creature actor. He has received multiple awards and nominations, including a Satellite Award and a Berlinale Award. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide. Skarsgård started his career as a child actor, starring in White Water Fury (2000), alongside his brother Alexander. After pursuing an education at Södra Latin, he landed his first major role in Simple Simon (2010). He gained international recognition in the main role in Hemlock Grove (2013–2015). His first major American role was in the Robert Schwentke-directed dystopian The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016). Skarsgård won multiple nominations for his role as Pennywise in It (2017), including a nominated Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor, a nominated MTV Movie Award for Best Villain, and a nominated Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie Villain. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Bill Skarsgård, licensed under CC-BY-SA; full list of contributors is on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (45)
Successful cartoonist Lisa and her siblings gather at their parents' farm for the first time in over ten years. The parents want only one of them to inherit the forest, which has been in the family's possessions for generations.
One Day All This Will Be Yours
When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.
Boy Kills World
The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
Eternals
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
Nine Days
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
Barbarian
Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet sisters Marie and Susanne, who recently moved up to northern Sweden from Stockholm. They decide to camp and party together that night. When they wake up in the morning after a wild night of dancing and alcohol, Susanne, the youngest girl, has disappeared without a trace...
White Water Fury
Television & Series (11)
One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White Tower - and a terrifying new threat so powerful it will turn them from predators into prey.
Hemlock Grove
This is the incredible story behind Sweden's most notorious gangster, Clark Olofsson, whose infamous crimes gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome".
Clark
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Castle Rock
Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter.
Laura Trenter Presents
Arn has to endure so much before he can get the love of his life Cecilie, who has been put away in a monastery.
