Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#141
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Bill Skarsgård works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Bill Skarsgård appears in 26 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Bill. The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too is the clearest case: a film rated 8.3 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, drama, thriller. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Gus Van Sant, Michael Sarnoski, Rupert Sanders and others, Bill Skarsgård helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too (2019) as Self · John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) as Marquis · Deadpool 2 (2018) as Zeitgeist
Career snapshot
Ranked #141 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
26
2010–2026
Career length
16 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.3
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
Average Nutevio score
6.6
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.3
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
Most frequent director
David Leitch
3 films together
Longest collaboration
3×
With David Leitch
Most common genre
Thriller
11 titles
Average runtime
1h 50m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.9 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Villains, The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends, The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.9
Across 12 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.9
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Villains, The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends, The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too.
Most productive era
2020s
14 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.04 films | 6.36 films |
| Action | 6.84 films | 6.85 films |
| Thriller | 6.65 films | 6.96 films |
| Comedy | 6.95 films | — |
| Crime | — | 6.55 films |
| Romance | 6.71 film | 5.61 film |
| Horror | 6.64 films | 6.44 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2010Simple Simon
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Simon.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2019The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
8.3 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument, as Little John.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
26 of 26 films
as Marquis
Directed by Chad Stahelski
as Simon
Directed by Unknown
as Willard Russell
Directed by Antonio Campos
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Self
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too (2019)
Performance score8.5
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Self gives Bill Skarsgård a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Marquis
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Performance score8.0
John Wick: Chapter 4 asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Marquis is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Simon
Simple Simon (2010)
Performance score7.8
Simple Simon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Simon is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Willard Russell
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Performance score7.6
The Devil All the Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Willard Russell is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Self
Start here. The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too is the clearest statement of what Bill Skarsgård does — accessible, 36 minutes, and rated 8.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Bill at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Simple Simon (2010)
Same director as The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends (2019)
Same director as Simple Simon, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Devil All the Time (2020)
A deliberate change of key after The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Keeps the crime register of The Devil All the Time but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together
Notably Deadpool 2
Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together
Notably It
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna Karenina
Robert Schwentke
Director
1 film together
Notably Allegiant
Sam Levinson
Director
1 film together
Notably Assassination Nation
Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together
Notably The Devil All the Time
Chloé Zhao
Director
1 film together
Notably Eternals
Zach Cregger
Director
1 film together
Notably Barbarian
Chad Stahelski
Director
1 film together
Notably John Wick: Chapter 4
Rupert Sanders
Director
1 film together
Notably The Crow
Michael Sarnoski
Director
1 film together
Notably The Death of Robin Hood
Gus Van Sant
Director
1 film together
Notably Dead Man's Wire
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
David Leitch
Director
3 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 3 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Deadpool 2Andy Muschietti
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
ItChad Stahelski
Director
1 film together · 7.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
John Wick: Chapter 4Antonio Campos
Director
1 film together · 7.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Devil All the TimeZach Cregger
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BarbarianMichael Sarnoski
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Death of Robin HoodChloé Zhao
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EternalsJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anna KareninaGus Van Sant
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Dead Man's WireSam Levinson
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Assassination NationRobert Schwentke
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
AllegiantRupert Sanders
Director
1 film together · 5.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The CrowSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Deadpool 2
as Zeitgeist
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Anna Karenina
as Makhotin
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Deadpool 2
as Zeitgeist
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Bill Skarsgård has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
11 catalogue titles in thriller, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Summers of It – Chapter One: You'll Float Too
as Self
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
John Wick: Chapter 4
as Marquis
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Burn All My Letters
as Sven Stolpe
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Barbarian
as Keith
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Deadpool 2
as Zeitgeist
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
The Death of Robin Hood
as Little John
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
The Devil All the Time
as Willard Russell
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Death of Robin Hood
as Little John
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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