Swedish Hollywood actor Stellan Skarsgård has become the latest in the industry to comment on the sexual scandal surrounding disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård kissed Nicole Kidman and thanked his mother after winning his first Emmy for his role in HBO's drama series 'Big Little Lies'.
Swedish fashion designer Katja Geiger, whose simple, brightly-coloured dresses were inspired by a fusion of Scandinavian and African culture, has died aged 97, local media said on Wednesday.
Tarzan hunk Alexander Skarsgård partied with girlfriend Alexa Chung at Stockholm's hipster club, while Alicia Vikander joined Matt Damon for the Jason Bourne premiere.
An iconic Stockholm venue has defended its decision to let Johnny Depp and his Hollywood Vampires band perform, despite fans threatening to boycott the gig following domestic violence claims by the actor's wife.
Sweden’s Oscar-wining actress Alicia Vikander will play the prized Lara Croft role in a new version of Tomb Raider, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.
Alicia Vikander scored the first Swedish acting Oscar in four decades on Sunday. But she's not the only one putting her country on the map in Hollywood. The Local shines a spotlight on some of the other Swedes on the big screen.
Sweden's newest Hollywood actress Alicia Vikander has jumped into the high-profile global debate on equal wages for male and female actors, calling it a chance for women to "step up".
Swedish actor Peter Stormare said his Big Lebowski co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman was "like a sibling" as he and other Swedes in Hollywood mourned the Oscar-winning actor's unexpected death from an apparent drug overdose.
With a new stage show about Greta Garbo on the way to Stockholm, The Local's Ann Törnkvist caught up with leading lady Ottiliana Rolandsson to find out why the Swedish silver screen legend haunts her.
Swedish apparel juggernaut H&M made its Academy Awards debut on Sunday night, in the shape of American actress Helen Hunt's midnight blue gown on the red carpet.
As the world awaits the impending release of the Hollywood version of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”, The Local's <b>Geoff Mortimore</b> looks at whether the capital of the US film industry can accurately portray Sweden's dark underbelly.
In a rare public interview, the younger brother of late Swedish author Stieg Larsson rejected claims that he and his father have jealously guarded the author’s inheritance from his longtime partner Eva Gabrielsson.
A film starring Swedish actor Mikael Persbrandt won the 2011 Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Language Film at a red carpet ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday.
The region of Hälsingland in northern Sweden is set to host the cast of the US remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" - the first of the Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy, with local residents and businesses ready to cash in on the Hollywood windfall.
<b>It’s notoriously difficult for European filmmakers to make it big in the US, particularly with non-English language films. But now Sweden’s filmmakers are echoing the successes of its authors and actors in winning over American audiences, writes Lee Martin.</b>
<b>Even though there’s an ocean between Per Hanefjord and Hollywood, the budding Swedish film director explained to The Local’s Lydia Parafianowicz that tinsel town honours aren’t out of reach for a kid who grew up 40 kilometres away from the nearest grocery store.</b>
Swede Per Hallberg took home the Oscar for Best Sound Editing at last night’s Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood for his work 'The Bourne Ultimatum.'
