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Cast: Stellan Skarsgard as Bootstrap Bill

Stellan Skarsgard (Bootstrap Bill) became a familiar figure to audiences around the world after playing opposite Emily Watson in Lars von Trier's “Breaking the Waves.” But Skarsgård's career stretches back more than 30 years, with numerous brilliant performances in a wide range of films, theatre and television roles.
As a teenager in his native Sweden, Skarsgård was the star of the 1968 TV series “Bombi Bitt och jag,” and was a practiced TV, film and stage actor while still in his early 20s. With Hans Alfredson's “The Simple-Minded Murderer,” the Gothenburg-born Skarsgård's fame spread far beyond Scandinavia. His role as a naïf driven to violence by the cruelty of others won Skarsgård the Berlin Film Festival's Silver Bear Award.
Through more than 60 films since, Skarsgård has proven himself a remarkably versatile actor.  In between starring as the Swedish superagent Carl Hamilton in Pelle Berglund's “Code Name Coq Rouge” and “The Democratic Terrorist,” Skarsgård played the title role in Kjell Grede's “Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg,” the true story of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from Auschwitz.
His other credits in notable Scandinavian films have included 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,” 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.
  Cast
Johnny Depp as Sparrow
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth
Geoffrey Rush as Barbossa
Stellan Skarsgard as Bootstrap
Bill Nighy as Davy Jones
Chow Yun-Fat as Sao Feng
Jack Davenport as Norrington
Jonathan Pryce as Governor
Naomie Harris as Tia Dalma
Tom Hollander as Beckett
Lee Arenberg as Pintel
Mackenzie Crook as Ragetti
Keith Richards as Teague
David Bailie as Cotton
David Schofield as Mercer
Martin Klebba as Marty
Reggie Lee as Tai Huang
Vanessa Branch as Giselle
Lauren Maher as Scarlett
  Filmmakers
Gore Verbinski  Director
Jerry Bruckheimer   Producer
Ted Elliott   Screenwriter
Terry Rossio - Screenwriter
Dariusz Wolski   Photography
Rick Heinricks   Prod. Designer
Penny Rose   Costume Designer
Craig Wood   Editor
Hans Zimmer  Composer
John Knoll   Visual Effects
Charles Gibson  Visual Effects
John Frazier   Special Effects
Allen Hall   Special Effects
Ve Neill   Makeup Effects
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  Other Cast and Crew  

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