Who are the lesser-known Skarsgård siblings, Sam and Eija? Only 2 of Dune actor Stellan Skarsgård’s 8 children have shunned acting, so what do they do, and what do their famous brothers think?
In case you hadn’t yet linked all of these famous actors together via their distinctly Swedish surname, Stellan, Alexander, Gustaf, Bill and Valter Skarsgård are all from the same family.
But there are two members of the family who have opted out of the limelight – Sam and Eija Skarsgård. So what do we know about the siblings, and how do their Hollywood fam feel about them?
How many children does Stellan Skarsgård have?
Stellan Skarsgård began acting in his home country of Sweden in the late 1960s and scored his first big Hollywood role in 1997’s Good Will Hunting. The now 72-year-old actor married his first wife My Skarsgård in 1972 and they had six children together: Alexander, Gustaf, Sam, Bill, Eija and Valter, per People.
Stellan and My divorced in 2007 and he married Megan Everett two years later, with whom he now has two young sons – Ossian and Kolbjörn – who are also child stars! Talk about acting being in the genes …
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What does Sam Skarsgård do?
Sam Skarsgård is the third eldest son of Stellan and My, coming into the world in 1982 after older brothers Alexander and Gustaf, and at first it seemed like he’d caught the showbiz bug too.
At the age of five he had a minor part in a film called Jim & Piraterna Blom that his dad co-wrote and starred in. He seemed to dabble in the industry once more as a body double in 2002 film The Invisible alongside his brother Gustaf, and then as a production assistant on To Kill A Child directed by Alexander.
However when it came to choosing a career, Sam pivoted to medicine – just like his doctor mum – and is now an ICU doctor in Stockholm, Screenrant reports.
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Who is Eija Skarsgård?
Eija Skarsgård, 32, is the only daughter of the family, and according to her famous father, that’s just how she likes it. “During each of my wives’ subsequent pregnancies, my daughter would say, ‘I hope it’s not a girl,’” Stellan told The Guardian in 2015. “She’s very strong, stronger in many ways than the boys, and relishes her position.”
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What does Eija Skarsgård do for a living?
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that the offspring of a Hollywood actor tried her hand at modelling at first. According to her profile on the Fashion Model Directory, she stands at a lofty 1.79 metres tall and was signed to Stockholm’s MIKAs agency. However, in the last few years she’s clearly found her calling behind the scenes in Hollywood – as a casting assistant.
Per IMDB, her first big gig was in the casting department on Swedish comedy Lust, and most recently she helped out on Netflix’s Young Royals.
What do the Skarsgård siblings think of each other’s jobs?
It clearly amuses the men in the family that so many of them are in the same industry. “If you need a Skarsgård for a movie and one of us isn’t available, it’s like, ‘How about this one?’” Alexander once joked to Interview magazine.
But it was Bill Skarsgård who admitted that all the family members in the entertainment industry bow down to Sam and their mum My: “There’s definitely a sense of embarrassment about what it is artists really do, at least for me in terms of acting,” he told Interview. “We have a mum and a brother who literally save lives.”
- Most will know Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård from Dune, Mamma Mia! or Thor, but did you know that Hollywood actors Alexander, Gustaf, Bill and Valter Skarsgård are his sons?
- Incredibly, all 8 of Stellan Skarsgård’s children have an IMDB page – but two of them decided to go in a different direction – and seem to have earned the respect of their siblings as a result …