Peter Stormare Biography

Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright, and musician. He is probably best known for playing Gaear Grimsrud in the 1996 film Fargo. He is also well known for his role as John Abruzzi in the Fox series Prison Break.

Early life

Stormare was born in Kumla, Nrke, Sweden and grew up in Arbr, Hlsingland. He changed his surname when he discovered that he shared it with a senior student at an acting academy. Like "storm" (a word which has the same meaning in Swedish and English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer". Before settling on "Stormare", he briefly contemplated changing his name to "Mrots Retep", which is simply "Peter Storm" backwards.

Acting career

Stormare began his career with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for 11 years. In 1990, he took a leading position as Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances, including Hamlet. Three years later, he moved to New York City and mainly took part there in English language productions. He played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent. He was discovered by international audiences for his critically acclaimed role as one of the kidnappers in Fargo (1996). He portrayed Dieter Stark in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park and later played sleazy, unlicensed "eye-doctor" Solomon Eddie in Minority Report.

In 1998, he appeared in "The Frogger", a Seinfeld episode where he played a rogue electrician known as Slippery Pete. He portrayed Uli Kunkel in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, as well as playing Lev Andropov, a Russian cosmonaut in the 1998 film Armageddon. In 1999, he appeared as a villainous producer and director of hardcore porn in the film 8mm. He also portrayed Gunny in the 2002 film Windtalkers and Alexei in the 2003 film Bad Boys II. In 2003, he played Ernst Rhm in Hitler: The Rise of Evil. In the 2005 film Constantine, he played Lucifer. He played an interrogator in the 2005 film The Brothers Grimm. His first major character in television was on the Fox series Prison Break in 2005 for the first two seasons, where he played the inmate mob boss John Abruzzi. He was originally cast in Fido, but opted out of the film upon being cast in Prison Break.

Stormare voiced Mattias Nilsson in the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Isair in the computer game Icewind Dale 2, and Johann Strauss in Quake 4. In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's VDub series of television commercials. He played the main character in the film Svartvattnet, which was filmed in Sweden and Norway in 2007. He was offered a role in the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year, which he declined. In the 2007 film Premonition, he played Dr. Roth. In April 2007, he appeared in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Ending Happy".

In December 2007, Stormare participated in the Swedish reality show Stjrnorna p slottet. He appears in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 as Dr. Zelinsky, a Russian scientist who builds a time machine. He starred as Walter in the Canadian independent crime thriller Small Town Murder Songs (2010). He appeared in the music video of the song "Uprising" by the Swedish power metal band Sabaton. He plays himself in the 2011 Norwegian comedy Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen and appeared as a psychiatrist in the Swedish horror film Marianne (2011). He appeared in a trailer for the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, made for the "Revolution" DLC pack. He has since reappeared in most trailers for the game.

In 2014 Stormare appeared in episodes of Longmire, Arrow and The Blacklist. In the same year he also starred in the Eli Roth produced film Clown, who portrayed Karlsson.

In 2015 Stormare voiced and motion captured the character Dr. Alan Hill, in the video game Until Dawn.

Music career

After Bono of U2 heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged Stormare to make an album. In 2002, Stormare released his first album, Dallerplsa och smfglar. He plays in a band called Blonde from Fargo and runs a record label called StormVox.

Personal life

Stormare divides his time between the United States and Sweden. He married actress Karen Sillas in 1989; they divorced in 2006. He married Toshimi, a native of Japan, in 2008. Their daughter Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare was born on May 9, 2009.

Stormare is the godfather of Gustaf Skarsgrd, the son of Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgrd. While working on a Disney film in Prague, he was introduced to Bob Dylan after Dylan's concert by bassist Tony Garnier. His nephew is The Sound of Arrows singer-songwriter Stefan Storm.

Stormare is a Christian and claims that he has had contact with God. When he was young, he participated in Baptist meetings in Arbr. He has a strong spiritual side, inherited from his mother, who claimed to be a medium, and who inherited this from her own father.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1978	Lyftet	Prisoner
1982	Fanny and Alexander	Young Man
1986	Seppan	Sara's Father	Television film
1986	Den frusna leoparden	Jerry
1987	Pirates of the Lake	Justus
1990	Awakenings	Neurochemist
1991	Freud flyttar hemifrn...	Berra
1991	Reflections in a Dark Sky	Carlo
1992	Damage	Peter Wetzler
1996	Fargo	Gaear Grimsrud
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Dieter Stark
1997	In the Presence of a Clown	Petrus Landahl	Television film
1998	Armageddon	Lev Andropov
1998	Mercury Rising	Shayes
1998	The Big Lebowski	Uli Kunkel / Karl Hungus
1998	Commander Hamilton	Carl Hamilton
1998	Somewhere in the City	Graham
1999	Purgatory	Cavin Guthrie
1999	8mm	Dino Velvet
2000	Bruiser	Milo Styles
2000	Chocolat	Serge Muscat
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Jeff
2000	The Million Dollar Hotel	Dixie
2000	Circus	Julius
2001	Happy Campers	Oberon
2002	13 Moons	Slovo
2002	The Beatle Fan	Albert
2002	Spun	Mullet Cop
2002	Minority Report	Dr. Solomon P. Eddie
2002	Windtalkers	Gunnery Sergeant Hjelmstad
2002	The Tuxedo	Dr. Simms
2002	Bad Company	Adrik Vas
2003	Hitler: The Rise of Evil	Ernst Rhm	Television film
2003	Bad Boys II	Alexei
2003	The Movie Hero	The Suspicious Character
2004	Birth	Clifford
2005	The Batman vs. Dracula	Dracula	Voice
2005	The Brothers Grimm	Cavaldi
2005	2001 Maniacs	Professor Ackerman
2005	Buck Rogers to the Xtreme!
2005	Constantine	Lucifer
2006	Nacho Libre	Emperor
2006	Unknown	Snakeskin Boots
2007	Premonition	Dr. Roth
2007	Anamorph	Blair Collet
2007	Boot Camp	Arthur Hail
2007	They Never Found Her	Woods
2007	Switch	Tommen
2007	Gone with the Woman	Glenn
2008	Witless Protection	Arthur Grimsley
2008	Insanitarium	Dr. Gianetti
2008	Varg	Klemens
2009	The Killing Room	Dr. Phillips
2009	Horsemen	David Spitz
2009	The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus	The President
2010	Corridor	Micke
2010	Undocumented	Z
2010	Dylan Dog: Dead of Night	Gabriel
2010	Small Town Murder Songs	Walter
2010	Henry's Crime	Darek Millodragovic
2011	Marianne	Sven
2011	Inseparable	Richard
2011	The Hunters 2	Torsten
2011	Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen	Peter Stormare
2012	Lockout	Scott Langral
2012	Get the Gringo	Frank Fowler
2012	Small Apartments	Mr. Olivetti
2012	Tai Chi Hero	Duke Fleming
2013	Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters	Sheriff Berringer
2013	The Last Stand	Thomas Burrell
2013	Siberian Education	Ink
2013	Autumn Blood	The Mayor
2013	Bad Milo!	Highsmith
2013	Trial of Arms	Karkov
2013	Sleight of Hand	Terrible Terry
2013	The Pendant	White
2013	The Zero Theorem	Doctor
2013	Pain & Gain	Dr. Bjornson
2014	22 Jump Street	Ghost
2014	Rage	O'Connell
2014	Mall	Barry
2014	Penguins of Madagascar	Corporal	Voice
2014	Bang Bang Baby	George
2014	The 11th Hour	The Russian
2014	Clown	Herbert Karlsson
2015	Dark Summer	Stokes
2015	Strange Magic	Thang	Voice
2015	Every Thing Will Be Fine	Editor
2015	Welcome to Purgatory	Lucius	Post-production
2016	John Wick 2		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Morsarvet	Kapten Bergkvist	Miniseries
1998	Seinfeld	Slippery Pete	Episode: "The Frogger"
2002	Watching Ellie	Ingvar	11 episodes
2004	Joey	Viktor	Episode: "Joey and the Husband"
2005-2007	Prison Break	John Abruzzi	20 episodes
2007	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	George "Binky" Babinkian	Episode: "Ending Happy"
2008	Transformers: Animated	Meltdown/Prometheus Black	Voice 3 episodes
2008	Monk	Petya Lovak	Episode: "Mr. Monk Paints His Masterpiece"
2009	Entourage	Aaron Cohen	2 episodes
2009	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Gorb	Episode: "Road Trip"
2010	Weeds	Chef	2 episodes
2010	Hawaii Five-0	Drago Zankovic	Episode: "Ohana"
2010	Adventure Time	Sir Slicer	Voice Episode: "Blood Under the Skin"
2011	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	King Xarion/King Viktor	Voice Episode: "Viktor: The Spoils"
2011	Covert Affairs	Max Kupala	Episode: "The Outsiders"
2011	Wilfred	Trashface	Episode: "Isolation"
2011	Leverage	Gunter Hanzig	Episode: "The Office Job"
2012	NCIS: Los Angeles	Interpol Agent Martin Kllstrm	Episode: "Crimeleon"
2012	Body of Proof	Wilson Polley	Episode: "Mind Games"
2013	Phineas and Ferb	Whiplash	Voice Episode: "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel"
2014	Psych	Cyrus Polk	Episode: "Someone's Got a Woody"
2014	Rake	Jack Tarrant	Episode: "Serial Killer"
2014	The Blacklist	Milos Kirchoff / Berlin	5 episodes
2014-2015	Arrow	Werner Zytle / Count Vertigo	2 episodes
2014	Manhattan	Lazar	2 episodes
2014	Longmire	Chance Gilbert	3 episodes
2015	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Rufus	Voice Episode: "Fish and Chips"
2015	Graceland	Martun Sarkissian	Episode: "Aha"
2015	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Lord Dregg (Voice)	Voice Episode: "Beyond the Known Universe"
2016	"Black Widows"

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2002	Icewind Dale II	Isair
2004	The Bard's Tale	Crazy Thorvald
2005	Quake 4	Johann Strauss
2005	Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction	Mattias Nilsson
2008	Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	Mattias Nilsson
2008	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	Dr. Gregor Zelinsky
2009	Wanted: Weapons of Fate	The Immortal
2010	Prison Break: The Conspiracy	John Abruzzi
2012	The Secret World	Dr. Aldini Huiginn Muninn
2013	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	The Replacer
2014	The Elder Scrolls Online	Jorunn the Skald King
2014	Destiny	Arach Jalaal
2015	Lego Jurassic World	Dieter Stark/Various
2015	Until Dawn	Dr. Alan Hill
2016	Call of Duty: Black Ops III	The Replacer

Music videos

Year	Artist	Title
2010	Sabaton	"Uprising"

Discography

• Dallerplsa och smfglar (2002)
• Swnska hwisor vol 1 (2004)
• Lebowski-Fest 2005 (2005)