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Alfredson’s “P&B,” Bo Widerberg’s “The Serpent’s Way Up the Naked Rock,” Kjell-Ake Andersson’s
“Friends,” Grede’s “Hip Hip Hurrah!,” Carl Gustaf Nykvist’s “The Women on the Roof,” Sven Nykvist’s
“The Ox” (Academy Award ® nominee for Best Foreign Language Film), Ake Sandgren’s “The Slingshot,”
Hans Petter Moland’s “Zero Kelvin” and “Aberdeen” and Erik Skjoldvjaerg’s “Insomnia.”
Skarsgård’s reputation began winning him roles in the United States and throughout the world, with
key performances in such films as John McTiernan’s “The Hunt for Red October,” Carroll Ballard’s
“Wind,” Peter Antonijevic’s “Savior,” Udayan Prasad’s “My Son the Fanatic,” Steven Spielberg’s
“Amistad,” Gus Van Sant’s “Good Will Hunting,” John Frankenheimer’s “Ronin,” Renny Harlin’s “Deep
Blue Sea,” Jonathan Nossiter’s “Signs and Wonders,” Mike Figgis’ “Time Code,” Istvan Szabo’s “Taking
Sides” and Matt Dillon’s “City of Ghosts.” Following their collaboration on “Breaking the Waves,” which
won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Skarsgård once again starred for Lars von Trier in
“Dogville.”
Most recently, Skarsgård has been seen in Jerry Bruckheimer’s production of “King Arthur” opposite
Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, as Father Merrin in Renny Harlin’s “Exorcist: The Beginning” and in
Sturla Gunnarsson’s “Beowulf & Grendel,” filmed in Iceland. Concurrently with filming “Pirates of the
Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” Skarsgård was also traveling to Spain to star in the title role of Milos
Forman’s “Goya’s Ghosts” as the legendary Spanish artist Francisco Goya. He then followed with a role
in “Waz.” Currently, Skarsgård is preparing for his next film, “Mamma Mia.”
On television, Skarsgård has starred in Ingmar Bergman’s “School for Wives” and Bo Widerberg’s
“The Wild Duck” and in the U.S., “Noon Wine” for PBS, “The Harlan County War” for Showtime and
“Helen of Troy” for the USA Network. He is also one of Sweden’s most celebrated stage actors, having
spent 16 years at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm working with such directors as Ingmar
Bergman, Alf Sjoberg and Per Verner-Carlsson.
BILL NIGHY (Davy Jones) was born in Caterham, Surrey, in 1949
and trained for the stage at the Guildford School of Acting. He made his
professional stage debut at Newbury’s Watermill Theatre and
subsequently gained experience at regional theatres like the Edinburgh
Traverse, the Chester Gateway and the Liverpool Everyman. He made his
first appearance in London in “Comings and Goings” at the Hampstead
Theatre in November 1978.
Bill has regularly appeared at the National Theatre in a succession of
new plays by leading British writers. In 1993, he starred as an ambitious
academic in Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” in a production by Trevor Nunn.
Seven years later, he won enormous critical acclaim for his performance
as psychiatrist Dr. Robert Smith in “Blue/Orange,” written by Joe Penhall
and directed by Roger Michell. For Nicholas de Jongh in the Evening Standard, it was a “knockout
performance.” It was a performance that also brought Nighy a Best Actor nomination in the prestigious
Olivier Awards.
Bill was also seen as Trigorin in a National Theatre production of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” opposite
Judi Dench as Arkadina. Mr. Nighy had previously worked with Dame Judi on “Absolute Hell” (BBC)
and they were recently reunited for the critically acclaimed “Notes on a Scandal,” which also stars Cate
Blanchett and is directed by Richard Eyre.
Bill’s long list of television credits includes virtually every major drama series on British TV, but it was
his work on “The Men’s Room” (BBC) in 1991 that brought him particular attention. More recently, he
won a BAFTA Best Actor Award and a Royal Television Society Best Actor Award for his performance as
a newspaper editor in the cult series “State of Play.” He has also starred in two television films for
writer/director Stephen Poliakoff in “The Lost Prince,” for which he won a Golden Satellite Award for
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and the extraordinary “Gideon’s Daughter.” Referring to Mr. Nighy’s
work in “Gideon’s Daughter,” the New York Herald news commented that “he dazzles with his
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