Max von Sydow

Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor who will star in the upcoming film Star Wars Episode VII. His involvement was first announced on April 29, 2014.

He is known for roles in other films such as The Excorcist, Conan the Barbarian (1982), and Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (which earned him his second Oscar nomination). He also has done some voice overs as well, notably, in the video game Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and Ghostbusters 2, where he dubbed over Wilhelm von Homburg as the voice of Vigo The Carpathian (very much like how James Earl Jones dubbed over David Prowse in the original Star Wars Trilogy as Darth Vader, and how Peter Serafinowicz dubbed over Ray Park as Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace). He previously worked with Lucasfilm on an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, playing Sigmund Freud.

He is also the second Swedish actor to be in a Star Wars film, after Pernilla August, who played Anakin Skywalker's mother, Shmi, in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.