Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born August 27, 1953), better known as Peter Stormare (), is a Swedish actor who holds both Swedish and American citizenship. He played Gaear Grimsrud in the film ''
Fargo'' (1996) and
John Abruzzi in the television series ''
Prison Break
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'' (2005–2007). He has appeared in films including ''
The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), ''
Playing God'' (1997), ''
The Big Lebowski'' (1998), ''
Armageddon'' (1998), ''
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''(1999), ''
Dancer in the Dark
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'' (2000), ''
Windtalkers'' (2002), ''
Minority Report'' (2002), ''
Bad Boys II'' (2003), ''
Constantine'' (2005), and ''
22 Jump Street'' (2014), and the video games ''
Destiny'' (2014), ''
Until Dawn'' (2015), and ''
Destiny 2'' (2017).
Early life
Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm
was born in
Kumla on August 27, 1953. Soon after, his family moved to
Arbrå. He changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at an acting academy. Like "storm" (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 Retep Mrots, which is "Peter Storm" backwards.
Acting career
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
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'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
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'' 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
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'' episode "Ending Happy".
In 2011, he appeared alongside Kevin Spacey and Daniel Wu in the Chinese film
''Inseparable'', which premiered at the 2011
Busan International Film Festival.
In 2014, he appeared in episodes of ''
Longmire'', ''
Arrow'', and ''
The Blacklist'', and starred in the
Eli Roth-produced film ''
Clown
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''.
In 2015, he voiced and motion-captured Dr. Alan J. Hill in the video game ''
Until Dawn''. In 2016, he played Rutger Burlin in the Swedish television series''
Midnattssol''; he also co-created, and starred as Ingmar in, the web television series ''
Swedish Dicks
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'', which was renewed for a second season in October 2016. In 2017, he played a minor role in ''
John Wick: Chapter 2'' and the part of Czernobog on the Starz series ''
American Gods
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''. He played the vampire Godbrand in the
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animated series ''
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''. In 2019 he appeared in the music video of the song "
Graven" by the U.S.
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band
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Music career
After
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Born and raised in Dublin, he attended ...
of
U2 heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged Stormare to make an album. In 2002, Stormare released his first album, ''Dallerpölsa och småfåglar''. He plays in a band called Blonde from Fargo and runs a record label called StormVox.
He appeared in the music video of the song "
Uprising
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A rebellion originates from a sentiment of indignation and disapproval of a situation and ...
" by the Swedish
power metal
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band
Sabaton
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.
He appeared in the clips "
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Arts and entertainment
* Elisabeth Lindemann, German textile designer and weaver
*Jens Lindemann, trumpet player
* Julie Lindemann, American photographer
* Maggie ...
.
Personal life
Stormare divides his time between the United States and Sweden.
He married actress
Karen Sillas in 1989, and 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.
They live in
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.
Peter Stormare is the godfather of actor
Gustaf Skarsgård
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.
Stormare is a
Christian and has said that he has had contact with
God.
When he was young, he participated in
Baptist
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meetings in
Arbrå.
He has a strong
spiritual side, inherited from his mother, who he has said was a
medium
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* Tecma Medium, a French hang glider design
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, and who supposedly inherited that ability from her own father.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Music videos
Discography
References
External links
*
BlondeFromFargo.comat
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1953 births
Living people
Swedish Baptists
Swedish Christians
Swedish expatriates in the United States
Swedish male film actors
Swedish male stage actors
Swedish male television actors
Swedish male video game actors
Swedish male voice actors
People from Kumla Municipality