BIOGRAPHY OF STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

Stellan Skarsgård (full name: Stellan John Skarsgård) is a Swedish actor born June 13, 1951 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is famous for his roles as Jan Nyman in Breaking the Waves (1996), Bootstrap Bill Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007), The Grand Duke in Cinderella (2015) among other roles.

AGE OF STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

Stellan was born on June 13, 1951 in Gothenburg, Sweden. He turns 67 in 2018.

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD FAMILY

The actor was born as Stellan John Skarsgård in Gothenburg, Sweden, the son of Gudrun (née Larsson) and Jan Skarsgård. He moved often during his childhood and lived in Helsingborg, Totebo, Kalmar, Marielund and Uppsala among other places.

WIFE OF STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

Skarsgård has been married twice with his first marriage to My Skarsgård, a doctor, in April 1975. The two have six children: Alexandre (b. 1976), Gustaf (b. 1980), Sam (b. 1982), Invoice ( born in 1990), Eija (born in 1992) and Valter (born in 1995). They divorced in May 2007. In January 2009, he married Megan Everett, a film producer and writer known for her children’s book ‘Banned from the Zoo’. The couple have two sons together, Ossian and Kolbjörn. Skarsgård underwent a vasectomy, saying he felt eight children was enough.

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CHILDREN OF STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

Stellan has 8 children from his two marriages. Four of his sons are famous actors. They are: Alexander Skarsgård, Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård and Valter Skarsgård. His other son, Sam Skarsgård was also an actor but later changed his mind while his sister and Stellan’s only daughter, Eija Skarsgård, is a former model. From his second marriage to Megan Everett, Stellan has two more children: Ossian and Kolbjörn who are still young.

SIZE OF STELLAN SKARSGARD

It stands at a height of 1.9m.

NET WORTH OF STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

He has an estimated net worth of $40 million.

FILMS BY STELLAN SKARSGARD

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STELLAN SKARSGARD PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN

When ghostly pirate Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) comes to collect a blood debt, Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) must find a way to avoid his fate lest his soul be damned forever. Nevertheless, the cunning ghost manages to interrupt the wedding plans of Jack’s friends Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and El izabeth Swann (Keira Knightley).First release: June 24, 2006 (USA) Director: Gore Verbinski Music composed by: Hans Zimmer Box office: $1.066 billion Budget: $225 million

STELLAN SKARSGARD THE AVENGERS

When Thor’s evil brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) gains access to the boundless power of the energy cube called the Tesseract, SHIELD Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) launches a superhero recruitment effort to defeat the unprecedented threat hanging over the Earth. . Joining Fury’s “dream team” are Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) . First Release: April 11, 2012 (Hollywood) Director: Joss Whedon Featured Song: Live to Rise Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr. ‘The Avengers’ is the world’s sixth highest-grossing film of all time.

STELLAN SKARSGÅRD GOODWILL HUNT

Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult college-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides to help the wayward youngster reach his potential. When Will arrived at Ted for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau cuts a deal to get clemency for him if he gets treatment from therapist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams). First Draft: December 2, 1997 (Westwood) Director: Gus Van Sant Featured Song: Miss Misery Award: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Screenplay: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

INTERVIEW WITH STELLAN SKARSGÅRD

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Ahead of her appearance in the Borg/McEnroe tennis biopic (and filming the Mamma Mia sequel!), Swedish star Stellan Skarsgård talks about life on set, Scandinavian culture and her talented sons.

Updated: 09/20/2017

Are you a tennis fan?

Stellan Skarsgård: Not really, I’m not very athletic. I don’t have time for that. But I saw that finale in 1980 and it was one of the most dramatic things I’ve ever seen on television. It was fantastic.

Is Borg’s story still known in Sweden?

Stellan Skarsgård: Everything about Borg is well known in Sweden, yes.

Did you have to do a lot of research for the character you play, Borg trainer Lennart Bergelin, or is he also a well-known figure?

Stellan Skarsgård: He’s a well-known character, and I knew a lot about him but, of course, I read as much about him as I could find anyway. But my ambition was not above all to make a kind of imitation of what he was. I let reality come back to fiction because the most important thing was to do what the movie wanted the character to do.

Do you think Bergelin was jealous of Borg, which he is often accused of?

Stellan Skarsgård: It was partly a Salieri-Mozart relationship, you know, where someone who’s almost really, really good sees someone who’s almost perfect and that combination of love and jealousy. But, ultimately, he became like a father figure that partly made Borg as good as he was. Borg of course had all the talent to start with but he taught him to channel all his anger and disappointments and everything and focus on tennis.

It’s a bit of an uncomfortable moment in the film when you see Borg as a child being ordered to bottle up all of his emotions, especially when you see his personal adult life strained because of that advice. Do you think it was a responsible decision?

Stellan Skarsgård: Was it the right thing to do? Well, if you wanted him to be the best tennis player in the world, yes. If you wanted him to be a happy person, you should have told him to stop playing tennis. [Laughs] Those are the options.

When Borg finally left at the age of 26, he had spent his whole life with one thing, and that was to win the next tennis match. He had barely read a book, he hadn’t finished school, he had no friends, he had no life, he had never bought coffee himself. I mean he suddenly stood there with no tennis and millions of people and no knowledge of life and of course all the vultures descended on him immediately and fucked him hard.

What do you think of Sverrir Gudnason’s Borg?

Stellan Skarsgård: [Sverrir] has a very difficult role because he plays someone who doesn’t say much, is almost autistically unable to express himself and at the same time he has to show the moviegoer an inner life that is rich enough to interesting and it does it beautifully by simply showing what is happening behind the eyes. There is an intensity that is…

…Nordic?

Stellan Skarsgard: Yes!

Actors from this part of the world manage to have this dark presence which is quite muted. Is it a cultural thing?

Stellan Skarsgård: Yeah, it’s a cultural thing because it’s a culture where you underestimate your feelings and don’t show them from the outside. It’s not as repressed as English, you just don’t speak it much. But it’s not bad to talk about it and when you talk about it, you say everything but you say it with as few words as possible. The English way doesn’t even come close, so it’s very different.

You have been very varied films in the work that you have done. Are you naturally adventurous with what you choose to play or do these scripts come your way?

Stellan Skarsgård: I always want to do things that I don’t think I can do. It seems like I’m looking for failure somehow. [Laughs] I don’t know, but I want to do things that I haven’t done and ultimately you’ve done a lot and you have to go further and further. But I love working and with people who have dedication, energy and joy in their work because if it’s not fun on set, I’d rather cook at home. So I’m looking for the parts and movies that I’ve never seen before, and I’ve never seen this movie before.

So many of the scripts you get are written in such a way that you think the writer wrote a movie they’ve seen before, again, and that’s really sad. So you want to be a little shaken up. You want your perception – not only of life and things – but also of what cinema is to be shaken up a bit. I’m lucky to work with Lars von Trier where every film is a film that has never been made before and where I’m a bit spoiled.

Is there a particular genre or mode that you enjoy working in?

Stellan Skarsgård: I love working with Lars von Trier because it’s a totally egalitarian, non-hierarchical set where everyone can say what they want and do what they want and you’re free to fail and you’re free to fail. to try things. There’s a lot of humor on set – the darker the story, the more humor there is on set – so it’s great, great fun and no pressure.

So you submit your ideas to the director?

Stellan Skarsgård: I always do – I’m not supposed to be quiet! It must be the director’s film but I can always put all my ideas on the table in front of him if he wants them, he can choose them. I don’t approve of actors taking over the set and neutralizing the director and running the set because they’re not going to edit the film, they’re not going to take responsibility for the final product.

And any good movie that isn’t a generic industrial production has to have a subjective idea – the more subjective the better usually. It’s like having a beautiful sunset and taking a picture, it’s not so beautiful anymore. But if Turner paints it, it’s really very interesting because it’s his vision of this sunset.

Would you say never?

Stellan Skarsgard: No. I tried to make a movie many years ago and wrote and financed most of it but it took so long, I lost interest. I don’t have the patience for this. I still like to act and I prefer to make two films a year as an actor rather than one film every ten years as a director.

Has he always acted for you? Did you want to do anything else?

Stellan Skarsgård: I wanted to be a diplomat when I was a kid and never decided to become an actor. I just slipped into it and kept doing it and enjoyed it. But I haven’t decided what I should do when I grow up. [Laughs]

The Skarsagård family is becoming a bit of a…

Stellan Skarsgård: …mark!

Exactly. Have your sons also started playing the game, like you?

Stellan Skarsgård: It has been varied. Four of them are now actors. For years, Alexander didn’t want to deal with this at all because he did something on television when he was quite young and it got a lot of attention and he didn’t want that attention. But then he came back to it later. And Gustav wanted to be an actor since he was two and a half years old I think.

Bill wasn’t sure. At that time he had two brothers who were already actors and he wasn’t sure so he finished school well with high marks and stuff and was thinking of taking a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway when he got some really good roles in Swedish Films and then he was f**ked. And the fourth son, he just left school, he has a few jobs and he likes it, so he could be…

…One to watch.

Stellan Skarsgard: Yeah.

Did you give them advice?

Stellan Skarsgård: No, and they didn’t ask either! [Laughs] I didn’t open any doors, I didn’t help them with anything because they have to do it themselves. I didn’t encourage them to become actors or discourage them. It’s their life, they have to fix it!

However, you worked with Alexander, in Melancholia…

Stellan Skarsgård: I worked with Alexander. I’ve worked with all of them, I think, at least once.

What was that experience like?

Stellan Skarsgård: It’s great because if you have a scene you speak the same language, which means very quickly you have the same idea of ​​how the scene should be done or how you want it. To do. But it’s also kinda funny. There was a movie I did with Gustav, we came on set and it was a period piece and we came on set with long beards and long hair and we just looked at each other and we we laughed. It was such a ridiculous situation when someone you know very, very well pretended to be someone else.

How did you start cinema in this country?

Stellan Skarsgård: Well, I started in America. I won best actor in 1982 at the Berlin Film Festival in a movie called The Simpleminded Murderer which was picked up in the US and got me a job in the US which made me got an agent in the US and she started working for me there. , and I have more and more.

Was that your goal?

Stellan Skarsgård: It was not my goal. I was very reluctant. [My agent] tried to get me to shake hands and send pics and I thought what’s the point of sending pics – I look different in every movie I do! And I was very angry, very snotty and pretentious, but finally I went there. But that’s not the goal and it shouldn’t be the goal. The goal should be to do interesting and fun things. Sometimes it can be a Mamma Mia! movie and sometimes it gets really dark and it’s a really bad ‘popcorn’ seller that you don’t get paid for at all.

Do you like being back here?

Stellan Skarsgård: Oh sure, I love it – I’ve spent a lot of time here. Last time I lived in Islington for a while when I did River for the BBC and now I’ll be back for Mamma Mia!, and I’ll be living in Notting Hill for a while.