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:
- 139
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Knife Thrower
- Latest Project:
- Movie Hard Matter 2026
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Dark Ascension | Lucius | 2026 |
| Movie | Hard Matter | 2026 | |
| Movie | Dweller | John Gaines | 2026 |
| Movie | The Knife Thrower | Kaspar Olofsson | 2026 |
| Movie | The Wizard Hunter: The Hunt for Evangelion Crowley | Magister Barres | 2025-12-18 |
| Movie | The Evolution of Horror Cinema Worldwide | Horror Film Expert | 2025-09-18 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All 2 | Agent Holman | 2024-09-24 |
| Series | So Long, Marianne | Irving Layton | 2024-09-22 |
| Series | Twilight of the Gods | Ulfr (voice) | 2024-09-19 |
| Movie | The Ritual Killer | Captain Marchand | 2023-03-09 |
| Series | The Journey - 15 dagar i Nepal | 2022-08-16 | |
| Movie | Tuesday Club | Henrik | 2022-03-04 |
| Movie | Day Shift | Troy | 2022-08-12 |
| Movie | Cryptozoo | Gustav (voice) | 2021-08-20 |
| Movie | The Grand Duke Of Corsica | The Grand Duke of Corsica | 2021-10-15 |
| Movie | Horror Noire | Erebus (segment 'Sundown') | 2021-10-28 |
| Series | The Box | Jedidiah Brag | 2021-11-28 |
| Movie | Gnomes & Trolls II: The Forest Trial | Mini (voice) | 2020-03-05 |
| Movie | Songbird | Emmett Harland | 2020-12-10 |
| Movie | The Poison Rose | Slide | 2019-05-23 |
| Movie | Age of Summer | Rock God | 2018-10-19 |
| Series | LA to Vegas | Artem | 2018-01-02 |
| Movie | Beyond The Sky | Peter Norton | 2018-09-21 |
| Movie | The Assassin's Code | Kurt Schlychter | 2018-05-11 |
| Movie | John Wick: Chapter 2 | Abram Tarasov | 2017-02-08 |
| Movie | King of the Dancehall | Pierce Davidson | 2017-01-13 |
| Movie | Kill 'em All | Agent Mark Holman | 2017-06-06 |
| Movie | The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature | Gunther (voice) | 2017-08-11 |
| Movie | V.I.P. | Paul | 2017-08-23 |
| Series | Castlevania | Godbrand | 2017-07-07 |
| Series | Swedish Dicks | Ingmar | 2016-09-02 |
| Series | Midnight Sun | Rutger Burlin | 2016-10-23 |
| Movie | Rupture | Terrence | 2016-11-04 |
| 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 | Penguins of Madagascar | Corporal (voice) | 2014-11-22 |
| Movie | Mall | Barry | 2014-06-18 |
| Movie | 22 Jump Street | The Ghost | 2014-06-05 |
| Movie | Clown | Karlsson | 2014-11-13 |
| Movie | The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Search and Rescue | Corporal (voice) | 2014-07-22 |
| Movie | Bang Bang Baby | George | 2014-09-08 |
| Movie | Poseidon Code | 2014-06-27 | |
| Movie | Siberian Education | Ink | 2013-02-27 |
| Movie | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters | Sheriff Berringer | 2013-01-17 |
| Movie | Pain & Gain | Dr. Bjornson | 2013-04-18 |
| Movie | The Last Stand | Burrell | 2013-01-12 |
| Movie | Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel | Whiplash (voice) | 2013-08-16 |
| Movie | The Zero Theorem | Doctor 2 | 2013-09-20 |
| Movie | Heatstroke | Mallick | 2013-12-19 |
| Movie | Bad Milo! | Highsmith | 2013-08-28 |
| Movie | Autumn Blood | The Mayor | 2013-09-10 |
| Movie | Get the Gringo | Frank | 2012-03-15 |
| Movie | Lockout | Scott Langral | 2012-04-12 |
| Movie | Small Apartments | Dr. Olivetti | 2012-03-10 |
| Movie | Big Top Scooby-Doo! | Wulfric von Rydingsvard (voice) | 2012-10-09 |
| Movie | Jewtopia | Buck O'Connell | 2012-04-26 |
| Movie | Tai Chi Hero | Flamming | 2012-10-25 |
| Movie | Inseparable | Richard | 2012-05-04 |
| 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 | You Said What? | Peter Stormare | 2011-07-29 |
| Movie | False Trail | Torsten | 2011-09-02 |
| Movie | Ivory | David Strauss | 2010-03-24 |
| Movie | Henry's Crime | Darek Millodragovic | 2010-01-14 |
| Movie | Corridor | Micke | 2010-02-05 |
| Movie | Moomins and the Comet Chase | Snufkin (voice) | 2010-08-06 |
| Movie | Janie Jones | Sloan | 2010-09-17 |
| Movie | Small Town Murder Songs | Walter | 2010-09-14 |
| Movie | Undocumented | Z | 2010-09-14 |
| 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 | Boot Camp | Norman Hail | 2008-02-07 |
| Movie | Gnomes and Trolls: The Secret Chamber | Prickles (voice) | 2008-01-31 |
| Movie | Witless Protection | Arthur Grimsley | 2008-02-22 |
| Movie | Wolf | Klemens | 2008-04-04 |
| Movie | Insanitarium | Dr. Gianetti | 2008-07-15 |
| Movie | Premonition | Dr. Roth | 2007-02-08 |
| Movie | Leaps and Bounds | Korvgubbe | 2007-02-09 |
| Movie | Anamorph | Blair Collet | 2007-09-21 |
| Movie | Echo | Simon’s Father | 2007-12-07 |
| Movie | Switch | Tommen | 2007-10-26 |
| Movie | Voom Portraits | Self | 2007-10-01 |
| Movie | Gone with the Woman | Glenn | 2007-09-07 |
| Movie | Unknown | Snakeskin Boots | 2006-11-03 |
| Movie | Nacho Libre | Emperor | 2006-06-16 |
| Movie | The Batman vs. Dracula | Dracula (voice) | 2005-10-18 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm: Bringing the Fairytale to Life | Self | 2005-12-20 |
| Movie | Constantine | Lucifer | 2005-02-08 |
| Movie | The Brothers Grimm | Cavaldi | 2005-08-26 |
| Movie | 2001 Maniacs | Professor Ackerman | 2005-05-12 |
| Movie | Nobody Wants Your Film | Self | 2005-05-06 |
| Movie | Birth | Clifford | 2004-10-29 |
| Movie | Spun | Mullet Cop | 2003-02-07 |
| Series | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Ernst Rohm | 2003-05-18 |
| Movie | The Movie Hero | The Suspicious Character | 2003-03-08 |
| Movie | Bad Boys II | Alexei | 2003-07-18 |
| Movie | Minnesota Nice | Self | 2003-04-01 |
| Movie | Bad Company | Adrik Vas | 2002-06-07 |
| Series | Watching Ellie | 2002-02-26 | |
| Movie | Windtalkers | Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad | 2002-06-14 |
| Movie | The Tuxedo | Dr. Simms | 2002-09-27 |
| Movie | 13 Moons | Slovo | 2002-08-30 |
| Movie | Minority Report | Dr. Solomon Eddie [Operating Room] | 2002-06-20 |
| Movie | Happy Campers | Oberon | 2001-01-21 |
| Movie | The Million Dollar Hotel | Dixie | 2000-02-09 |
| Movie | Bruiser | Milo Styles | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Von Trier's 100 Eyes | Self | 2000-12-02 |
| Movie | Chocolat | Serge Muscat | 2000-12-22 |
| Movie | Circus | Julius | 2000-05-05 |
| Movie | Dancer in the Dark | Jeff | 2000-09-01 |
| Movie | 8MM | Dino Velvet | 1999-02-26 |
| Movie | Purgatory | Cavin Guthrie | 1999-01-10 |
| Movie | Love in the Mirror | Giovanni Andreini | 1999-11-14 |
| Movie | The Big Lebowski | Nihilist | 1998-03-06 |
| Movie | Hamilton | Carl Hamilton | 1998-01-30 |
| Movie | Armageddon | Lev Andropov | 1998-07-01 |
| Movie | Mercury Rising | Shayes | 1998-04-03 |
| Movie | Somewhere in the City | Graham | 1998-06-11 |
| Movie | In the Presence of a Clown | Petrus Landahl | 1998-10-01 |
| Movie | Playing God | Vladimir | 1997-10-17 |
| Movie | The Lost World: Jurassic Park | Dieter Stark | 1997-05-23 |
| Movie | Le Polygraphe | Christof Haussman | 1996-05-26 |
| Movie | A Kind of Hades | Ulf | 1996-11-30 |
| Movie | Fargo | Gaear Grimsrud | 1996-03-08 |
| 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 |