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 Dweller 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hard Matter | 2026 | |
| Movie | Dweller | John Gaines | 2026 |
| Movie | Dark Ascension | Lucius | 2026 |
| Movie | The Knife Thrower | Kaspar Olofsson | 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 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All 2 | Agent Holman | 2024-09-24 |
| Series | So Long, Marianne | Irving Layton | 2024-09-22 |
| 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 |
| Series | LA to Vegas | Artem | 2018-01-02 |
| 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 |
| Movie | V.I.P. | Paul | 2017-08-23 |
| Movie | King of the Dancehall | Pierce Davidson | 2017-01-13 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Abram Tarasov | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Gunther (voice) | 2017-08-11 |
| Series | Castlevania | Godbrand | 2017-07-07 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All | Agent Mark Holman | 2017-06-06 |
| Series | Swedish Dicks | Ingmar | 2016-09-02 |
| Series | Midnight Sun | Rutger Burlin | 2016-10-23 |
| Movie | Rupture | Terrence | 2016-11-04 |
| Movie | I Am Here | The Russian | 2015-06-12 |
| Movie | Every Thing Will Be Fine | Editor | 2015-04-02 |
| Movie | Strange Magic | Thang (voice) | 2015-01-23 |
| Movie | Dark Summer | Stokes | 2015-01-09 |
| Movie | Rage | Francis O'Connell | 2014-05-09 |
| Movie | 22 Jump Street | The Ghost | 2014-06-05 |
| Movie | The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Corporal (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
| Movie | Mall | Barry | 2014-06-18 |
| Movie | Penguins of Madagascar | Corporal (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
| Movie | Clown | Karlsson | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | Poseidon Code | 2014-06-27 | |
| Movie | Bang Bang Baby | George | 2014-09-08 |
| Movie | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Sheriff Berringer | 2013-01-17 |
| Movie | The Last Stand | Burrell | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Siberian Education | Ink | 2013-02-27 |
| Movie | Pain & Gain | Dr. Bjornson | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | Heatstroke | Mallick | 2013-12-19 |
| Movie | The Zero Theorem | Doctor 2 | 2013-09-20 |
| Movie | Autumn Blood | The Mayor | 2013-09-10 |
| Movie | Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel | Whiplash (voice) | 2013-08-16 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Highsmith | 2013-08-28 |
| Movie | Small Apartments | Dr. Olivetti | 2012-03-10 |
| Movie | Get the Gringo | Frank | 2012-03-15 |
| Movie | Lockout | Scott Langral | 2012-04-12 |
| Movie | Tai Chi Hero | Duke Fleming | 2012-10-25 |
| Movie | Big Top Scooby-Doo! | Wulfric von Rydingsvard (voice) | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Inseparable | Richard | 2012-05-04 |
| Movie | Jewtopia | Buck O'Connell | 2012-04-26 |
| Movie | Dylan Dog: Dead of Night | Gabriel | 2011-03-16 |
| Movie | The Wayshower | Prince of Doubt | 2011-04-10 |
| 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 | Henry's Crime | Darek Millodragovic | 2010-01-14 |
| Movie | Corridor | Micke | 2010-02-05 |
| Movie | Undocumented | Z | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Janie Jones | Sloan | 2010-09-17 |
| Movie | Small Town Murder Songs | Walter | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Moomins and the Comet Chase | Snufkin (voice) | 2010-08-06 |
| Movie | Ivory | David Strauss | 2010-03-24 |
| Movie | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus | The President | 2009-10-01 |
| Movie | Horsemen | David Spitz | 2009-02-06 |
| Movie | The Killing Room | Dr. Phillips | 2009-01-16 |
| 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 | Leaps and Bounds | Korvgubbe | 2007-02-09 |
| 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 | Unknown | Snakeskin Boots | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Nacho Libre | Emperor | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | Constantine | Lucifer | 2005-02-08 |
| Movie | Nobody Wants Your Film | Self | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | The Batman vs. Dracula | Dracula (voice) | 2005-10-18 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life | Self | 2005-12-20 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm | Cavaldi | 2005-08-26 |
| Movie | 2001 Maniacs | Professor Ackerman | 2005-05-12 |
| Movie | Birth | Clifford | 2004-10-29 |
| Movie | Spun | Mullet Cop | 2003-02-07 |
| 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 |
| Series | Watching Ellie | 2002-02-26 | |
| Movie | 13 Moons | Slovo | 2002-08-30 |
| Movie | The Tuxedo | Dr. Simms | 2002-09-27 |
| Movie | Minority Report | Dr. Solomon Eddie [Operating Room] | 2002-06-20 |
| 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 | Chocolat | Serge Muscat | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | Bruiser | Milo Styles | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Von Trier's 100 Eyes | Self | 2000-12-02 |
| Movie | Circus | Julius | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Dancer in the Dark | Jeff | 2000-09-01 |
| 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 | Mercury Rising | Shayes | 1998-04-03 |
| Movie | Somewhere in the City | Graham | 1998-06-11 |
| Movie | The Big Lebowski | Nihilist | 1998-03-06 |
| Movie | In the Presence of a Clown | Petrus Landahl | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Lev Andropov | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Dieter Stark | 1997-05-23 |
| Movie | Playing God | Vladimir | 1997-10-17 |
| Movie | Le Polygraphe | Christof Haussman | 1996-05-26 |
| Movie | Fargo | Gaear Grimsrud | 1996-03-08 |
| Movie | A Kind of Hades | Ulf | 1996-11-30 |
| 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 | Seppan | Sara's Father | 1987-05-01 |
| Movie | Pirates of the Lake | Beekeeper | 1987-02-25 |
| 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 |