Stellan Skarsgård

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Stellan Skarsgård
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Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård  (born June 13, 1951, Göteborg, Sweden) is a Swedish actor. During his early career most of his work was confined to his native Sweden. He is particularly associated with director Lars von Trier, having starred in three of the Danish auteur's features, including The Kingdom.

His best-known English language film roles include Russian submarine captain Tupolov in The Hunt for Red October; an engineer in The Unbearable Lightness of Being; an MIT professor of mathematics in Good Will Hunting, a young Lancaster Merrin in Exorcist: The Beginning (and the Paul Schrader version of this story, Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist), the Saxon warlord Cerdic in King Arthur, "Bootstrap Bill" Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, and Joe Heiser in Wind. He is the father of Alexander Skarsgård and Gustaf Skarsgård.

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