swedish actor
Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm [ 1 ] ( born 27 August 1953 ), [ 2 ] known professionally by his credit stage name as Peter Stormare ( swedish : [ ˈpěːtɛr ˈstɔ̂rːmarɛ ] ( ) ), is a swedish actor. He played Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo ( 1996 ) and John Abruzzi on Prison Break ( 2005–2007 ). He has appeared in films including The Lost World: Jurassic Park ( 1997 ), Playing God ( 1997 ), The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ), Armageddon ( 1998 ), 8mm ( 1999 ), Dancer in the Dark ( 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 [edit ]

Stormare was born in Kumla in Örebro County, Sweden. soon after, his kin moved to Arbrå, Gävleborg County. He changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior scholar at an acting academy. Like “ storm ” ( which has the same meaning in Swedish and English ), stormare is a swedish give voice meaning “ stormer ”. Before settling on Stormare, he concisely contemplated changing his diagnose to Retep Mrots, which is “ Peter Storm ” backwards. [ 3 ]

Acting career [edit ]

Stormare voiced Mattias Nilsson in the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Isair in the computer plot Icewind Dale 2, and Johann Strauss in Quake 4. In February 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen ‘s VDub series of television receiver commercials. He played the main quality in the film Svartvattnet, which was filmed in Sweden and Norway in 2007. [ 4 ] He was offered a role in the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year, [ 5 ] which he declined. [ 6 ] In the 2007 movie Premonition, he played Dr. Roth. In April 2007, he appeared in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation sequence “ Ending glad ”. During the 2011 Super Bowl premiered Advertising for Budweiser where Stormare play cowboy and he besides participated as pause entertainment in the Melodifestivalen 2011, in the form of the character Harry Cane. In the lapp year, he besides appeared aboard Kevin Spacey and Daniel Wu in the chinese film Inseparable, which premiered at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival. In 2014, Stormare appeared in episodes of Longmire, Arrow, and The Blacklist, and starred in the Eli Roth -produced film Clown. [ 7 ] In 2015, Stormare voiced and motion-captured the character Dr. Alan Hill in the television game Until Dawn. In 2016, he played Rutger Burlin in the swedish television receiver series Midnattssol ; he besides co-created, and starred as Ingmar in, the web television series Swedish Dicks, which was renewed for a second season in October 2016. In 2017, he played a minor function in John Wick: Chapter 2 and the share of Czernobog on the Starz series American Gods. He played the vampire Godbrand in the Netflix animated series Castlevania. In 2019 he appeared in the music television of the sung “ Graven “ by the U.S. end metal band Possessed. [ 8 ]

Music career [edit ]

After Bono 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. [ 9 ]

He appeared in the music video of the birdcall “ Uprising “ by the swedish power metallic element band Sabaton. [ 10 ] He appeared in the clips “ Steh Auf “ and “ Frau & Mann ” of metal project Lindemann. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]

personal life [edit ]

Stormare divides his time between the United States and Sweden. [ 14 ] He married actress Karen Sillas in 1989 ; they divorced in 2006. He married Toshimi, a native of Japan, in 2008. [ 14 ] Their daughter Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare was born on May 9, 2009. [ 15 ] Stormare presently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter. [ 16 ] Peter Stormare is godfather for Gustaf Skarsgård.

Stormare is a christian and has said that he has had contact with God. [ 14 ] [ 17 ] When he was young, he participated in Baptist meetings in Arbrå. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] He has a strong apparitional side, inherited from his mother, who he has said was a culture medium, and who purportedly inherited that ability from her own father. [ 17 ] [ 18 ]

Filmography [edit ]

film [edit ]

television [edit ]

Video games [edit ]

Music video [edit ]

Year Artist Title
2007 The Poodles “Seven Seas”
2010 Sabaton “Uprising”
2019 Possessed “Graven”
2019 Lindemann “Steh Auf”
2019 Lindemann “Frau & Mann”

discography [edit ]

Year Title
2002 Dallerpölsa och småfåglar
2004 Swänska hwisor vol 1
2005 Lebowski-Fest 2005

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