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Peter Stormare (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish-American film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director and playwright. When his hulking, icy, evil countenance brought shudders to the spines of the audience applauding "Fargo" (1996), many left the theater wondering and asking "Who was that guy?" Tall, with Nordic blond hair, Peter Stormare, who was teamed with Steve Buscemi as the kidnapping pair in "Fargo", is more than just "a guy". He is, in fact, a celebrated actor, director and playwright who had a fifteen-year association with Ingmar Bergman at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden. Stormare has also been a performer in international films since 1983 and a New York stage actor since he moved to the USA in 1992. What followed was a string of roles in which Stormare brought his distinctive sly humor to an array of usually eccentric supporting characters in a long string of films, most notably "Armageddon" (1998), "8MM" (1999), "Chocolat" (2000), "The Million Dollar Hotel" (2000), "Dancer in the Dark" (2000), "Windtalkers" (2002), "Minority Report" (2002), "Spun" (2002), "Bad Boys II" (2003) and "Birth" (2004). He appeared as Ingvar in the experimental Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom "Watching Ellie" (NBC, 2002-2003), and Stormare was especially amusing playing a loopy but still fearsome Satan in a pivotal appearance in the third act of horror action hybrid "Constantine" opposite Keanu Reeves. Another off-kilter, heavily accented performance, as the bewigged Italian Cavaldi in diector Terry Gilliam's fictionalized fantasy "The Brothers Grimm" (2005), started out with great comedic (even Pythonesque) promise but quickly grew wearisome when the director became overreliant on Stormare's outrageous performance for comic relief. The actor then joined the cast of the TV death row thriller "Prison Break" (Fox, 2005 - ) as imprisoned former mob boss John Abruzzi. Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden, the son of Teodolinda (née Laparelli) and Renato Storm. He grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland, Sweden as Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm, but changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled backwards), was rejected. Just like "storm" (a word which means the same in Swedish as in English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer". Stormare began his career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for eleven years. In 1990 he took a leading position (Associate Artistic Director) at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances including Hamlet. Three years later, he went to New York and mainly took part there in English language productions. In Sweden, he has worked with Ingmar Bergman, by whom he was apparently discovered. He has also played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to James Bond. He was critically praised for his role as a quiet and ruthless villain (with Steve Buscemi) in Fargo (1996), and later played a sleazy, unlicensed "eye doctor" named Solomon Eddie in Minority Report. He portrayed Dieter Stark in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. 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, the Russian Cosmonaut in 1998's Armageddon, and Alexey in the 2003 summer blockbuster Bad Boys II. In the 2005 film Constantine, Stormare played Lucifer. He played an interrogator in the 2005 movie The Brothers Grimm. His first major character in television was on the show Prison Break in 2005, where he played mob boss John Abruzzi. Stormare was originally cast for the role of Fido, but upon being cast in Prison Break, he opted out of the film. In 2007 he portrayed a brothel owner on one episode of CSI. He also was the voice of Mattias Nilsson in the video game Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, the voice of Isair in the computer game Icewind Dale 2, and the voice of Johann Strauss in Quake 4. In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's VDub series of television commercials. He is once again voicing Mattias Nilsson in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. Stormare is contracted to play the main character in the Swedish upcoming movie Svartvattnet, which is going to be filmed in Sweden and Norway during 2007. Stormare has also been offered a role in the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year, which he later declined. Stormare runs his own record label, called StormVox. In December 2007, Stormare participated in the Swedish reality show "Stjärnorna på slottet" along with Britt Ekland, Arja Saijonmaa, Jan Malmsjö and Magnus Härenstam. Stormare divides his time between the United States and Sweden. He is divorced from his first wife, actress Karen Sillas, with whom he has a daughter named Kelly. Currently, he is married to Toshimi Stormare. Godfather of Gustaf Skarsgård. Last name pronounced Store-mahr-e. Was offered the part of Eddie the Dane (originally named Eddie the Swede) in Miller's Crossing (1990), but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts. Plays in a band called Blonde From Fargo. Discovered by Ingmar Bergman. In addition to being a stage and screen actor, he was quite prolific as a playwright and a theater director. He was accidentally hit by Mark Hamill during a fight scene in Hamilton (1998). Was a friend of Ethan Coen and Joel Coen long before he was cast in Fargo (1996). Has a daughter, Kelly, with Karen Sillas. Began using the name Stormare, since there were two Peter Storms at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre. His favorite actor is Gary Oldman. Became an American citizen in the late 1990s. Has played a German The Big Lebowski (1998), a Frenchman Chocolat (2000), a Russian Bad Boys II (2003), a Swede Minority Report (2002), and an Italian "Prison Break" (2005). Peter is the owner of a record label: StormVox. Released his first album in 2002: "Dallerpölsa och småfåglar". Peter started his career in Royal Dramatic Theater in Sweden. He moved to New York in 1993. Nowadays he lives in Los Angeles (2007). He's an actor, a writer, a director, and a musician. Whenever possible, he avoids watching himself in either TV shows or films. Stormare is also a musician. After Bono of U2 heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged him to make an album and in 2002, he released his first album, Dallerpölsa och småfåglar. Stormare is the godfather of Gustaf Skarsgård, the son of equally-acclaimed Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård, and plays in a band called Blonde From Fargo. |
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