Bill Skarsgård
- Acting
- August 9, 1990 · Vällingby, Sweden
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Lords of War · Anton, Executive producer
- The Mosquito Bowl
- Behind Barbarian · Self
- The Death of Robin Hood · Little John
- Dead Man's Wire · Tony Kiritsis, Executive producer
- IT - Welcome To Derry · Pennywise/Bob Gray
- IT: Welcome to Derry · Pennywise, Executive producer
- Locked · Eddie Barrish, Executive producer
- Nosferatu: An Inside Look · Self
- Nosferatu · Count Orlok
- The Crow · Eric
- Boy Kills World · Boy
- John Wick: Chapter 4 · Marquis
- One Day All This Will Be Yours · Coffee Package/The Voice of the Abyss (Voice)
- Burn All My Letters · Sven Stolpe
- Barbarian · Keith, Executive producer
- Clark · Clark Olofsson, Executive producer
- Soul of a Man · Writer, Director
- Eternals · Kro (Voice)
- Naked Singularity · Dane
- Nine Days · Kane
- Soulmates · Mateo
- The Devil All the Time · Willard Russell
- The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends · Self
- The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too · Self
- Villains · Mickey
- Luuk & Hallberg · Self
- It Chapter Two · Pennywise
- Once Upon a Deadpool · Zeitgeist
- Assassination Nation · Mark
- Castle Rock · Shawshank Prisoner
- Deadpool 2 · Zeitgeist
- Do You Like the Taste of Beer? · Producer
- Battlecreek · Henry Pearl
- It · Pennywise
- Atomic Blonde · Merkel
- Alteration · Alexandro
- A Stone Appears · Man
- Allegiant · Matthew
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Hemlock Grove · Roman Godfrey
- Victoria · Otto
- Anna Karenina · Makhotin
- Simon & the Oaks · Simon Larsson
- The Crown Jewels · Richard Persson
- Behind Blue Skies · Martin
- Simple Simon · Simon
- Arn: The Knight Templar · Erik
- Uppsala Doctor's · Lukas Käs
- Uppsala Doctor's · Lukas Käs
- Kenny Begins · Pontus
- Arn: The Kingdom at Road's End · Erik
- Maid on Fire! · Teenage Son
- Spending the Night · Victor
- Made in Hollywood · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Dad, the policeman · Tony
- Laura Trenter Presents · Tony
- White Water Fury · Klasse
- Gilded Rage · Thomas Gilbert Jr.