Freeway - Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan Skarsgård - A swedish actor

We have many talented Swedish actors, although Sweden is a small country.
The actors have been very successful internationally and have played in well-known movies.
I am going to tell you a little more about Stellan Skarsgård.

Stellan Skarsgård was born in june, 1951 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
He became a teen star in 1968 when he played the title role in the TV miniseries
"Bombi Bitt och jag".
After that (1972-88) he was employed at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm,
where he starred in such productions as "Vita rum" (1988), "Ett drömspel" (1986) and
"Mäster Olof" (1988).
Stellan is a very talented actor and has appeared in over fifty films since 1982.
He also got a Guldgagge (Sweden`s Oscar) and a Silver Berlin Bear.
He made his entrance into American film with "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
(1988). But his real breakthrough came whit Lars von Trier`s "Breaking The Waves" (1996).
And he made two more films with Von Trier, "Dancer In The Dark" (2000) and "Dogville"
(2003).
Stellan has played in many other famous movies too, "Good Will Hunting" (1997), "Ronin"
(1998), "Insomnia" (1997), "The Glass House" (2001) and "Deep Blue Sea" (1999)

Minifacts:

* His wife is a doctor, My Skarsgård.
* He has six children, Alexander, Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija and Valter.
* He is a friend of Peter Stormare, another famous Swedish acor.
* People frequently mistake him for Liam Neeson.