Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare (born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm; 27 August 1953) is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo. Peter Stormare began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions of many Shakespeare plays, including "Hamlet". In 1993 he moved to New York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.
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- Born:
- Aug 27, 1953 In Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Suède
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 137
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Knife Thrower
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Wizard Hunter: The Hunt for Evangelion Crowley 2025-12-18
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hard Matter | 2026 | |
| Movie | The Knife Thrower | Kaspar Olofsson | 2026 |
| Movie | Dark Ascension | Lucius | 2026 |
| Movie | Dweller | John Gaines | 2026 |
| Movie | The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide | Horror Film Expert | 2025-09-18 |
| Movie | The Wizard Hunter: The Hunt for Evangelion Crowley | Magister Barres | 2025-12-18 |
| Series | So Long, Marianne | Irving Layton | 2024-09-22 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All 2 | Agent Holman | 2024-09-24 |
| Movie | The Ritual Killer | Captain Marchand | 2023-03-09 |
| Movie | Day Shift | Troy | 2022-08-12 |
| Movie | Tuesday Club | Henrik | 2022-03-04 |
| Series | The Box | Jedidiah Brag | 2021-11-28 |
| Movie | Horror Noire | Erebus (segment 'Sundown') | 2021-10-28 |
| Movie | The Grand Duke Of Corsica | The Grand Duke of Corsica | 2021-10-15 |
| Movie | Cryptozoo | Gustav (voice) | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | Songbird | Emmett Harland | 2020-12-10 |
| Movie | Gnomes & Trolls II: The Forest Trial | Mini (voice) | 2020-03-05 |
| Movie | The Poison Rose | Slide | 2019-05-23 |
| Movie | The Assassin's Code | Kurt Schlychter | 2018-05-11 |
| Movie | Age of Summer | Rock God | 2018-10-19 |
| Movie | Beyond The Sky | Peter Norton | 2018-09-21 |
| Series | LA to Vegas | Artem | 2018-01-02 |
| Movie | King of the Dancehall | Pierce Davidson | 2017-01-13 |
| Movie | V.I.P. | Paul | 2017-08-23 |
| Series | Castlevania | Godbrand | 2017-07-07 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All | Agent Mark Holman | 2017-06-06 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Abram Tarasov | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Gunther (voice) | 2017-08-11 |
| Movie | Rupture | Terrence | 2016-11-04 |
| Series | Midnight Sun | Rutger Burlin | 2016-10-23 |
| Series | Swedish Dicks | Ingmar | 2016-09-02 |
| Movie | Dark Summer | Stokes | 2015-01-09 |
| Movie | Strange Magic | Thang (voice) | 2015-01-23 |
| Movie | I Am Here | The Russian | 2015-06-12 |
| Movie | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Editor | 2015-04-02 |
| Movie | Rage | Francis O'Connell | 2014-05-09 |
| Movie | 22 Jump Street | The Ghost | 2014-06-05 |
| Movie | Poseidon Code | 2014-06-27 | |
| Movie | Penguins of Madagascar | Corporal (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
| Movie | Clown | Karlsson | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | Bang Bang Baby | George | 2014-09-08 |
| Movie | Mall | Barry | 2014-06-18 |
| Movie | The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Corporal (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
| Movie | The Last Stand | Burrell | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Sheriff Berringer | 2013-01-17 |
| Movie | Siberian Education | Ink | 2013-02-27 |
| Movie | The Zero Theorem | Doctor 2 | 2013-09-20 |
| Movie | Heatstroke | Mallick | 2013-12-19 |
| Movie | Autumn Blood | The Mayor | 2013-09-10 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Highsmith | 2013-08-28 |
| Movie | Pain & Gain | Dr. Bjornson | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel | Whiplash (voice) | 2013-08-16 |
| Movie | Get the Gringo | Frank | 2012-03-15 |
| Movie | Small Apartments | Dr. Olivetti | 2012-03-10 |
| Movie | Big Top Scooby-Doo! | Wulfric von Rydingsvard (voice) | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Lockout | Scott Langral | 2012-04-12 |
| Movie | Inseparable | Richard | 2012-05-04 |
| Movie | Jewtopia | Buck O'Connell | 2012-04-26 |
| Movie | Tai Chi Hero | Duke Fleming | 2012-10-25 |
| Movie | Dylan Dog: Dead of Night | Gabriel | 2011-03-16 |
| Movie | Marianne: The Ghost Inside | Sven | 2011-11-04 |
| Movie | False Trail | Torsten | 2011-09-02 |
| Movie | You Said What? | Peter Stormare | 2011-07-29 |
| Movie | The Wayshower | Prince of Doubt | 2011-04-10 |
| Movie | Henry's Crime | Darek Millodragovic | 2010-01-14 |
| Movie | Small Town Murder Songs | Walter | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Janie Jones | Sloan | 2010-09-17 |
| Movie | Undocumented | Z | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Moomins and the Comet Chase | Snufkin (voice) | 2010-08-06 |
| Movie | Ivory | David Strauss | 2010-03-24 |
| Movie | Corridor | Micke | 2010-02-05 |
| Movie | Horsemen | David Spitz | 2009-02-06 |
| Movie | The Killing Room | Dr. Phillips | 2009-01-16 |
| Movie | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | The President | 2009-10-01 |
| Movie | Insanitarium | Dr. Gianetti | 2008-07-15 |
| Movie | Wolf | Klemens | 2008-04-04 |
| Movie | Witless Protection | Arthur Grimsley | 2008-02-22 |
| Movie | Boot Camp | Norman Hail | 2008-02-07 |
| Movie | Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber | 2008-01-31 | |
| Movie | Premonition | Dr. Roth | 2007-02-08 |
| Movie | Gone with the Woman | Glenn | 2007-09-07 |
| Movie | Switch | Tommen | 2007-10-26 |
| Movie | Echo | Simon’s Father | 2007-12-07 |
| Movie | Voom Portraits | Self | 2007-10-01 |
| Movie | Anamorph | Blair Collet | 2007-09-21 |
| Movie | Leaps and Bounds | Korvgubbe | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | Unknown | Snakeskin Boots | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Nacho Libre | Emperor | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Constantine | Lucifer | 2005-02-08 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm | Cavaldi | 2005-08-26 |
| Movie | The Batman vs. Dracula | Dracula (voice) | 2005-10-18 |
| Movie | 2001 Maniacs | Professor Ackerman | 2005-05-12 |
| Movie | Nobody Wants Your Film | Self | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life | Self | 2005-12-20 |
| Movie | Birth | Clifford | 2004-10-29 |
| Movie | The Movie Hero | The Suspicious Character | 2003-03-08 |
| Movie | Bad Boys II | Alexei | 2003-07-18 |
| Series | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Ernst Rohm | 2003-05-18 |
| Movie | Minnesota Nice | Self | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Spun | Mullet Cop | 2003-02-07 |
| Series | Watching Ellie | 2002-02-26 | |
| Movie | Minority Report | Dr. Solomon Eddie [Operating Room] | 2002-06-20 |
| Movie | The Tuxedo | Dr. Simms | 2002-09-27 |
| Movie | 13 Moons | Slovo | 2002-08-30 |
| Movie | Windtalkers | Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Adrik Vas | 2002-06-07 |
| Movie | Happy Campers | Oberon | 2001-01-21 |
| Movie | The Million Dollar Hotel | Dixie | 2000-02-09 |
| Movie | Von Trier's 100 Eyes | Self | 2000-12-02 |
| Movie | Chocolat | Serge Muscat | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | Bruiser | Milo Styles | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Dancer in the Dark | Jeff | 2000-09-01 |
| Movie | Circus | Julius | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Purgatory | Cavin Guthrie | 1999-01-10 |
| Movie | Love in the Mirror | Giovanni Andreini | 1999-11-14 |
| Movie | 8MM | Dino Velvet | 1999-02-26 |
| Movie | Hamilton | Carl Hamilton | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | The Big Lebowski | Nihilist | 1998-03-06 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Lev Andropov | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | In the Presence of a Clown | Petrus Landahl | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Somewhere in the City | Graham | 1998-06-11 |
| Movie | Mercury Rising | Shayes | 1998-04-03 |
| Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Dieter Stark | 1997-05-23 |
| Movie | Playing God | Vladimir | 1997-10-17 |
| Movie | Fargo | Gaear Grimsrud | 1996-03-08 |
| Movie | A Kind of Hades | Ulf | 1996-11-30 |
| Movie | Le Polygraphe | Christof Haussman | 1996-05-26 |
| Movie | The Bacchae | The Messenger | 1993-04-09 |
| Movie | Damage | Peter Wetzler | 1992-12-02 |
| Movie | Freud Leaving Home | Berra | 1991-11-15 |
| Movie | Awakenings | Neurochemist | 1990-12-04 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Lake | Beekeeper | 1987-02-25 |
| Movie | Seppan | Sara's Father | 1987-05-01 |
| Movie | The Frozen Leopard | Jerry | 1986-08-29 |
| Series | Fanny and Alexander | Young Man who Helps Isak with Coffer | 1984-12-26 |
| Movie | Fanny and Alexander | Young Man Who Helps Isak with Coffer (uncredited) | 1982-12-17 |
| Movie | Lyftet | Prisoner | 1978-01-20 |