Peter Stormare facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Peter Stormare
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Stormare in 2015
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Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm
27 August 1953 Kumla, Sweden
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| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1976–present |
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Karen Sillas
(m. 1989; div. 2006)Toshimi Murakami
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| Children | 1 |
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish actor famous for playing a wide variety of characters. You might know him as the silent bad guy Gaear Grimsrud in the movie Fargo or as the mob boss John Abruzzi in the TV show Prison Break.
He has appeared in many popular movies, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Armageddon, Minority Report, and Constantine. He is also a voice actor in video games like Destiny and Until Dawn.
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Early Life and Name Change
Peter Stormare was born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm in Kumla, Sweden. When he was a baby, his family moved to a town called Arbrå. He studied acting at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, a very famous acting school.
While at the school, he discovered another student had the same last name, Storm. To avoid confusion, he decided to change his name. He first thought about "Retep Mrots," which is "Peter Storm" spelled backward, but then he chose Stormare. In Swedish, Stormare means "stormer," which is a powerful and memorable name for an actor.
Acting Career
Peter Stormare is known for his ability to play characters from many different countries. He has played an American, a German, an Italian, a Frenchman, and a Russian in various movies and TV shows.
Famous Film Roles
Stormare has had a long and successful career in movies. Early in his career, he worked with the famous director Ingmar Bergman in a play of Hamlet.
Some of his most well-known movie roles include:
- Dieter Stark in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- The Russian cosmonaut Lev Andropov in Armageddon (1998)
- The nihilist Uli Kunkel in The Big Lebowski (1998)
- The quiet but dangerous Gaear Grimsrud in Fargo (1996)
- Dr. Solomon Eddie in Minority Report (2002)
- The Devil himself, Lucifer, in Constantine (2005)
- The ghost-like villain in 22 Jump Street (2014)
- Abram Tarasov in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Television and Voice Acting
Besides movies, Stormare has appeared in many popular TV shows. He played the mob boss John Abruzzi in Prison Break and has had roles in shows like Arrow, The Blacklist, and American Gods.
He is also a talented voice actor. He has lent his voice to animated shows like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Castlevania.
Video game fans might recognize his voice from several popular games:
- He played Dr. Alan J. Hill in the horror game Until Dawn (2015), providing both his voice and motion capture for the character. He returned to this role for the movie version released in 2025.
- He is the voice of Arach Jalaal in the video games Destiny and Destiny 2.
- He voiced Mattias Nilsson in the Mercenaries game series.
Music Career
Acting isn't Stormare's only talent. He is also a musician. After Bono, the lead singer of the band U2, heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged him to record an album. In 2002, Stormare released his first album, Dallerpölsa och småfåglar.
He has his own band called Blonde from Fargo and even runs his own record label, StormVox. He has also appeared in music videos for bands like the Swedish metal group Sabaton.
Personal Life
Peter Stormare lives in Los Angeles but also spends time in his home country of Sweden. He has dual citizenship, meaning he is a citizen of both Sweden and the United States. He married Toshimi Murakami in 2008, and they have a daughter named Kaiya.
Stormare is the godfather of fellow actor Gustaf Skarsgård. He has spoken about his Christian faith and spiritual beliefs, which he says he inherited from his mother.
Selected Filmography
Here are some of the many movies Peter Stormare has been in:
- Awakenings (1990)
- Fargo (1996)
- The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
- Armageddon (1998)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- Chocolat (2000)
- Minority Report (2002)
- Bad Boys II (2003)
- Constantine (2005)
- The Brothers Grimm (2005)
- Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
- 22 Jump Street (2014)
- Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
- The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (2017)
- Day Shift (2022)
- Until Dawn (2025)
Selected Television Roles
- Seinfeld (1998)
- Prison Break (2005–2007)
- Monk (2008)
- Transformers: Animated (2008)
- Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
- Adventure Time (2010)
- Arrow (2014–2015)
- The Blacklist (2014)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2015–2017)
- Swedish Dicks (2016–2018)
- American Gods (2018–2021)
- Castlevania (2018)
- Animaniacs (2020)
See also
In Spanish: Peter Stormare para niños
