Bill Skarsgård facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Bill Skarsgård
Skarsgård in 2018
Born	Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (1990-08-09) 9 August 1990 (age 34) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present
Partner(s)	Alida Morberg
Children	2
Parent(s)	Stellan Skarsgård (father)
Relatives	Alexander Skarsgård (brother) Gustaf Skarsgård (brother) Valter Skarsgård (brother)

Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (Swedish: [ˈbɪlː ˈskɑ̌ːʂɡoːɖ]; born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor. He is known for portraying Pennywise in the horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019). Other horror appearances were in the series Hemlock Grove (2013–2015) and Castle Rock (2018–2019) and the films Barbarian (2022) and Nosferatu (2024).

Skarsgård has also appeared in the comedy Simple Simon (2010), the drama Nine Days (2020), and the action films The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), Atomic Blonde (2017), and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023).

Early life

Skarsgård was born on 9 August 1990 in Vällingby, Sweden, the son of actor Stellan Skarsgård and doctor My Skarsgård. He has seven siblings: Alexander, Gustaf, Valter (all actors), as well as Sam, Eija, Ossian and Kolbjörn. Ossian and Kolbjörn are half-brothers from Stellan Skarsgård's remarriage to Megan Everett.

Career

Early work (2011–2016)

In 2011, Skarsgård was nominated for a Guldbagge Award for his leading role as Simon in Simple Simon. At the age of 21, he won the European Film Academy's Shooting Stars Award in 2012. Beginning in 2013, Skarsgård played the role of Roman Godfrey in the Netflix original Hemlock Grove.

In April 2014, Skarsgård featured on the cover of Hero – a bi-annual men's fashion and culture magazine, shot by Hedi Slimane. In the issue, he is interviewed by his father. Skarsgård played Matthew in the science fiction thriller The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), his first major American film.

Breakthrough (2017–present)

He played horror villain Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the 2017 film It and reprised the role in the 2019 sequel, directed by Andy Muschietti. Speaking about what led him to casting Skarsgård, Muschietti said: "One second he can act all cute, and then the next, there's something ancestral and dark that just appears. His ability to transform is mind-blowing to me.”

Skarsgård was a series regular on 2018's Castle Rock, as a young man with an unusual legal problem. That same year, he portrayed Zeitgeist in Deadpool 2. In 2020, he played Mateo in episode 4 of AMC's anthology series Soulmates. In 2021, he voiced the main antagonist Kro in Eternals.

In the 2022 Netflix miniseries Clark, Skarsgård portrayed Clark Olofsson, the notorious Swedish criminal whose involvement in the Norrmalmstorg robbery gave rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.

Skarsgård played the lead villain role of Marquis de Gramont in John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023). He was the titular character in Boy Kills World.

He led the reboot of The Crow directed by Rupert Sanders. Skarsgaard said: "I had a great shoot, a lot of night shoots. … You're kind of preoccupied in a bleak state of mind for a while. I like to be consumed by it when I'm doing it. Actually, we were working out a lot, I found it really helpful. There's nothing like being tired and sweaty to get the demons out." He has been cast as Count Orlok in the remake of Nosferatu. Speaking on his experience portraying the titular role, Skarsgård said: "It was like conjuring pure evil. It took a while for me to shake off the demon that had been conjured inside of me."

He is also set to reprise his role as Pennywise/IT in the prequel TV series It: Welcome to Derry.

Personal life

Skarsgård is in a relationship with actress Alida Morberg. In October 2018, the couple had their first child. They had a second child in 2023.

Filmography

Skarsgård at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con

Film

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	White Water Fury	Klasse
2008	Pigan brinner!	Tonårs-Nosferatu
	Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End	Erik
2009	Kenny Begins	Pontus
2010	Simple Simon	Simon
	Behind Blue Skies	Martin
2011	The Crown Jewels	Richard Persson
	Simon & the Oaks	Simon
2012	Anna Karenina	Captain Makhotin
2013	Victoria	Otto
2016	The Divergent Series: Allegiant	Matthew
2017	Atomic Blonde	Merkel
	Do You Like the Taste of Beer	Man
	It	Pennywise the Dancing Clown
	Battlecreek	Henry Pearl
	Moomins and the Winter Wonderland	Moomintroll	Voice
2018	Assassination Nation	Mark
	Deadpool 2	Axel Cluney / Zeitgeist
2019	Villains	Mickey
	It Chapter Two	Pennywise the Dancing Clown
2020	Nine Days	Kane
	The Devil All the Time	Willard Russell
2021	Naked Singularity	Dane
	Eternals	Kro	Voice
2022	Barbarian	Keith Toshko	Also executive producer
	Burn All My Letters	Sven Stolpe
2023	John Wick: Chapter 4	Marquis Vincent de Gramont
	Boy Kills World	Boy
2024	The Crow	Eric Draven / The Crow
	Nosferatu	Count Orlok
TBA	Dead Man's Wire	Tony Kiritsis	Filming
	Emperor	Philip II of Spain	Completed

Television

Awards and nominations