Look at a list of the highest-grossing actors of all time, and you’ll see a lot of familiar names. The group includes franchise-hopping performers such as Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Zoe Saldaña; legacy A-listers such as Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks; and one 74-year-old Swede who has built a bustling, storied career doing a little bit of everything. Stellan Skarsgård, who earned his first Academy Award nomination this year for his role in the Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s family drama Sentimental Value, has been on our screens for decades: He began acting in the late 1960s, before establishing...