Category

21st-century Swedish male actors

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Swedish-French actor (1929–2020)

Swedish actor and martial artist

Stellan Skarsgård

Stellan John Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Lars von Trier, appearing in Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2003), Melancholia (2011), and Nymphomaniac (2013). Skarsgård's early English-speaking film roles include The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Good Will Hunting (1997), Ronin (1998), and King Arthur (2004). His accolades include two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Critics’ Choice Award.

Alexander Skarsgård

Alexander Johan Hjalmar Skarsgård is a Swedish actor. A son of actor Stellan Skarsgård, he began acting at the age of seven but quit at thirteen. After serving in the Swedish Navy, Skarsgård returned to acting and gained his first role in the American comedy film Zoolander (2001). He played Brad Colbert in the miniseries Generation Kill (2008) and had his international breakthrough portraying vampire Eric Northman in the television series True Blood (2008–2014).

Bill Skarsgård

Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård 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 him to be described as a creature actor by media sources. 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.

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor. He first gained recognition for his roles in the 2010 Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. Kinnaman is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC's The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the American version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the DC Comics superhero films Suicide Squad (2016) and The Suicide Squad (2021). From 2019 to 2026, he starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.

Erland Josephson

Swedish actor, film director and author (1923-2012)

Björn Andrésen

Björn Johan Andrésen was a Swedish actor and musician. He was best known for having played the 14-year-old Tadzio in Luchino Visconti's 1971 film adaptation of the 1912 Thomas Mann novella Death in Venice.

Gustaf Skarsgård

Mikael Persbrandt

Swedish-Lebanese actor

Swedish actor (1939–2017)

Swedish actor (1925–2020)

Swedish film actor, director, producer and screenwriter (1927-2010)

Swedish actor (1946-2017)

Swedish actor (1934–2020)

Krister Henriksson

Valter Skarsgård

Sven-Bertil Taube

Swedish singer and actor (1934–2022)

Sverrir Gudnason

Swedish actor and author

Swedish singer, songwriter, musician

Swedish actor and director

Jakob Cedergren

Swedish and Danish actor

Kjell Bergqvist

Swedish actor and musician

Björn Gustafsson

Swedish actor and comedian

actor, film director (1922–2004)

Swedish singer, actor, and musical artist

Swedish actor (1937-2017)

Swedish actor (1958–2017)

Brasse Brännström

Swedish actor and comedian (1945-2014)

Björn Bengtsson

Swedish actor, song lyricist and singer (1937–2024)

Simon J. Berger

Swedish actor, dancer

Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Anastasios Soulis

Jacob Ericksson

Swedish actor (1967–2025)

Peter Andersson

Swedish actor (1953- )

Göran Stangertz

Swedish actor (1944-2012)

Joakim Nätterqvist

Lars-Erik Berenett

Swedish actor (1942–2017)

actor, sound engineer