BIOGRAPHY OF PETER STORMARE

Peter Stormare born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm on August 27, 1953, is a Swedish actor, voice actor, director, playwright and musician active in the United States. He is known for his role as Gaear Grimsrud in the 1996 film Fargo, John Abruzzi in the Fox television series Prison Break and Ingmar in the Swedish comedy television series Swedish Dicks.

PETER STORMARE AGE

He was born on August 27, 1953. He turns 65 in 2018.

PETER STORMARE HEIGHT

He is 1.89 meters tall.

PETER STORMARE FAMILY

The actor was born Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm on August 27, 1953 in Kumla, Sweden, and grew up in Arbrå. He is the son of Gunhild Storm and Karl Ingvar Storm.

He changed his last name when he found out he shared it with a senior student at an acting academy. Like “storm” (a word that has the same meaning in Swedish and English), “stormare” is a Swedish word meaning “stormer”. Before settling on ‘Stormare’, he briefly considered changing his name to ‘Retep Mrots’, which is simply ‘Peter Storm’ backwards.

PETER STORMARE WIFE

He married actress Karen Sillas in 1989 and they divorced in 2006. He then married Toshimi, originally from Japan, in 2008. The couple have a daughter Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare, born May 9, 2009. He has another daughter, Kelly Stormare, born March 1989.

CAREER OF PETER STORMARE

He began his career at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he belonged for 11 years. He took a prominent position as Associate Artistic Director in 1992, at the Tokyo Globe Theater, and made a name for himself through various performances of Shakespeare, including Hamlet. He moved to New York four years later and participated mainly in productions in English.

He played the role of a fictional Swedish secret agent, Carl Hamilton. For his critically acclaimed role as one of the kidnappers in Fargo (1996), he was later discovered by international audiences. He played Dieter Stark in the 1997 film “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” and later played sleazy, unlicensed “ophthalmologist” Solomon Eddie in Minority Report.

He appeared in ‘The Frogger’, anepisode of Seinfeld where he played a rogue electrician known as Slippery Pete in 1998. In 1998 he also played Uli Kunkel’s film The Big Lebowski, as well as the role of Lev Andropov, a Russian cosmonaut in the 1998 film Armageddon, where his unique performance cemented his status among A-list actors. He appeared as a nasty producer and director of hardcore porn in 1999, in the movie 8mm.

He also portrayed Gunny in the 2002 film Windtalkers and Alexei in the 2003 film Bad Boys II. He played Ernst Röhm in Hitler: The Rise of Evil in 2003. He played Lucifer in the 2005 film Constantine. He played the torturer Cavaldi in the 2005 film The Brothers Grimm. His first major TV character was on the Fox series Prison Break in 2005 for the first two seasons, where he played inmate mob boss John Abruzzi. He was originally cast in Fido, but opted out of the film after being cast in Prison Break.

He voiced Mattias Nilsson in the video games Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, Isair in the video game Icewind Dale 2, and Johann Strauss in Quake 4. He played the role of Wolfgang in the television commercial series VDub from Volkswagen in February. 2006. He plays the main character in the film Svartvattnet, which was shot in Sweden and Norway in 2007.

He was offered a role on the ABC television series Lost for a period of one year, which he turned down. He played Dr. Roth in the 2007 film Premonition. He appeared in the “Ending Happy” episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in April 2007. Stormare, in December 2007, appeared on the reality television show Swedish Stjärnorna på slottet. He appears in the video game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 as Dr. Zelinsky, a Russian scientist who builds a time machine.

In 2010, he starred as Walter in the Canadian independent crime thriller Small Town Murder Songs. He appeared in the music video for the song “Uprising” by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. He played the lead role in the Norwegian comedy Hjelp, vi er i filmbransjen in 2011 and appeared as a psychiatrist in the Swedish horror film Marianne in 2011. He appeared in a trailer for the video game Call of Duty : Black Ops II, made for the ‘Revolution DLC Pack’. He has since reappeared in most of the game’s trailers.

Stormare appeared in 2014, in episodes of Longmire, Arrow and The Blacklist. He also acted in the film Clown produced by Eli Roth, the same year, in which he portrayed Karlsson. He played mob boss Frank O’Connell, in Rage directed by Paco Cabezas. He also voices Arach Jalal in the Destiny video game franchise.

Stormare voiced and motion captured the character of Dr. Alan Hill in the 2015 video game Until Dawn. In 2016 he was cast as Rutger Burlin in the Swedish TV series Midnattssol; he also co-created and starred as Ingmar in the Swedish web television series Dicks which was renewed for a second season in October 2016. In 2017 he had a minor role in John Wick: Chapter 2 and the role from Czernobog on the Starz American Gods series.

FILMS AND TV SERIES BY PETER STORMARE

Movies

1. 1978 Lifted
2. 1982 Fanny and Alexander
3. 1986 The Frozen Leopard
4. 1987 Pirates of the Lake
5. Revivals 1990
6. 1991 Freud moves away from home…
7. 1991 Reflections in a Dark Sky
8. 1992 Damage
9. 1996 Fargo
10. 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
11. 1998 Armageddon
12. 1998 Mercury Rising
13. 1998 The Big Lebowski
14. 1998 Commander Hamilton
15. 1998 Somewhere in the city
16. 1999 Purgatory
17. 1999 8mm
18. 2000 Bruiser
19. 2000 Chocolate
20. 2000 Dancer in the Dark
21. 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel
22. 2000 Circus
23. 2001 Happy Campers
24. 2002 13 moons
25. 2002 The Beatles Fan
26. 2002 spun
27. Minority Report 2002
28. 2002 Windtalkers
29. 2002 The Tuxedo
30. 2002 Bad Business
31. 2003 Bad Boys II
32. 2003 The movie hero
33. 2004 Birth
34. 2005 The Batman vs. Dracula
35. 2005 The Brothers Grimm
36. 2005 2001 Maniacs
37. 2005 Buck Rogers at the Xtreme!
38. 2005 Constantine
39. 2006 Nacho Libre
40. 2006 Unknown
41. Premonition 2007
42. 2007 Anamorph
43. Training Camp 2007
44. 2007 They Never Found Her
45. Switch 2007
46. 2007 Gone with the Woman
47. 2008 Mindless Protection
48. 2008 Insanitarium
49. 2008 Varg
50. 2009 The Murder Room
51. 2009 Cavaliers
52. 2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
53. Corridor 2010
54. 2010 Moomins and the hunt for comets
55. 2010 Undocumented
56. 2010 Dylan Dog: Dead of the Night
57. 2010 Small Town Murder Songs
58. Henry’s Crime 2010
59. 2011 Marianne
60. 2011 Inseparable
61. 2011 The Hunters 2
62. 2011 Help, we’re in the movie business
63. Lockout 2012
64. 2012 Get the Gringo
65. 2012 Small Apartments
66. 2012 Tai Chi Heroes
67. 2013 Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
68. 2013 The Last Stand
69. 2013 Siberian Education
70. Autumn Blood 2013
71. 2013 Bad Milo!
72. Arms trial 2013
73. Sleight of hand 2013
74. 2013 The Pendant
75. 2013 The Zero Theorem
76. 2013 Bread & Gain
77. 2014 22 Jump Street
78. 2014 Rabies
79. 2014 Shopping center
80. 2014 Penguins of Madagascar
81. 2014 Bang Bang Baby
82. 2014 The 11th Hour
83. Clown 2014
84. 2015 dark summer
85. 2015 Strange Magic
86. 2015 Everything will be fine
87. 2016 Breakup
88. 2016 King of Dancehall
89. 2017 John Wick: Chapter 2
90. 2017 The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
91. VIP 2017
92. Dark Ascension 2017
93. 2017 Kill Them All
94. TBD The Poison Rose

TV shows

1. 1984–88 The Wooden Cartridges
2. 1986 Seppan
3. 1993 Morsarvet
4. 1993 The Bacchae
5. 1995 screen two
6. 1996 Swift Justice
7. 1997 In the presence of a clown
8. 1998 Seinfeld
9. 2002 Watch Ellie
10. 2003 Hitler: The Rise of Evil
11. 2004 Joey
12. 2005–07 Prison Break
13. 2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
14. 2008 Transformers: Animated
15. 2008 Monk
16. 2009 Friends
17. 2009 Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
18. 2010 Weeds
19. 2010 Hawaii 5-0
20. 2010 Adventure Time
21. 2011 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
22. 2011 Secret Affairs
23. 2011 Wilfred
24. Leverage 2011
25. NCIS 2012: Los Angeles
26. Body of Evidence 2012
27. 2013 Phineas and Ferb
28. 2014 Psych
29. Rake 2014
30. 2014 The Blacklist
31. Arrow 2014-2015
32. 2014-15 Manhattan
33. 2014-17 Longmire
34. 2015, 2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Heroes
35. 2015Graceland
36. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2015-2016
37. 2016 swedish cocks
38. 2016 Those Who Can’t
39. 2016 midnight sun.
40. 2017 Justice League Action
41. American Gods 2017
42. 2017 Get Shorty (TV series)
43. 2018 LA in Vegas

PETER STORMARE UNTIL DAWN

PETER STORMARE PRISON BREAK

Michael Scofield is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother, Lincoln Burrows, was convicted of a crime he did not commit and sentenced to death. Michael bankrolls himself into incarceration alongside his brother in Fox River State Penitentiary, then sets in motion a series of conspiracies that plans to break Lincoln out and prove his innocence. Once released from prison, their perils are not over – the brothers must flee to escape takeover and fight a complex political plot that puts everyone’s lives in danger. First Episode Date: August 29, 2005 Final Episode Date: May 30, 2017 Writers: Paul Scheuring, Matt Olmstead, Nick Santora, Zack Estrin, Karyn Usher, Seth Hoffman, Monica Macer Theme Songs: Pas le temps, Prison Break Anthem (Ich glaub ‘an dich), Prison Break Theme Song, Over the Rainbow

PETER STORMARE 22 RUE JUMP

Although they have successfully completed high school, an investigation at a local college brings big changes for undercover agents Jenko (Channing Tatum) and Schmidt (Jonah Hill). When Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the soccer team and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian major art scene, the two begin to question their partnership. Not only do they have to fix the problem, but now the two overgrown teenagers have to learn how to behave like adults. First Release: June 4, 2014 (New York) Directors: Phil Lord, Chris Miller Film Series: Jump Street Film Series Box Office: $331.3 Million Screenplay: Michael Bacall, Rodney Rothman, Oren Uziel

PETER STORMARE FARGO

“Fargo” is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who is in debt and needs the money so badly that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from his rich father (Harve Presnell), paying a small part to the thugs and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme falls apart when the thugs shoot a state trooper. First Release: March 8, 1996 (USA) Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Featured Song: Fargo, North Dakota Awards: Best Actress Oscar Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

JURASSIC PARK PETER STORMARE

John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) summons chaos theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) to his home with startling information – while almost everything in his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, his engineers had a second site, where other dinosaurs were hidden . . It looks like the dinosaurs on the second island are alive and well and even reproducing; and Hammond wants Malcolm to observe and document the reptiles before Hammond’s financiers can reach them. First release: May 19, 1997 (US) Director: Steven Spielberg Box office: $618.6 million Initial DVD release: October 10, 2000 Budget: $73 million

INTERVIEW WITH PETER STORMARE – VIDEO

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SWEDISH DICKS’ PETER STORMARE ON HIS WORK WITH BERGMAN, HOW TO TELL IF YOUR CAT IS POISONING YOU, AND MORE

Updated on: July 26, 2018
Source: pastemagazine.com

Peter Stormare is so much more than “that guy from Fargo” or “that guy from Armageddon.” The Swedish actor, writer and director has paved the way for his own particular brand of colorful weirdos who populate indies and tentpoles with their utterly compelling eccentricity. In his first series as a creator, the Pop TV comedy Swedish Dicks, the perennial scene-stealer finally has the soapbox to tell the stories he wants the way he wants.

The private detective show (starring Stormare alongside Johan Glans) doesn’t hold your hand, delights in mocking genre conventions, and saturates its quirky comedy with questions that really matter to its creator.
Stormare chatted with Paste about the show’s second season, and things got pretty serious pretty quickly. The multi-hyphen ended up talking about Keanu Reeves and Swedish Dicks, sure, but he also dove deep into immigration, filmmaking, and the pharmaceutical drama he was trying to do. Now obey Peter Stormare and register to vote! [Editor’s note: The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.]

Dough: The show started out as a passion project – did the second season change that?

Peter Stormare: We wanted to address Axel’s problem with illegal immigration. [Axel is the former DJ, played by Glans, who becomes PI Partners with the character of Stormare.] That was something I was keen to bring to the table.

Paste: You were so prescient on this issue, being in production last year.

Stormare: I’ve always found that interesting as an immigrant myself. It took me so many tries to become a citizen. I got my green card in 1989. I applied to become a citizen and they took me in and answered questions about the first 13 states. Then they asked me if I had already voted.

‘Nope. Nope.’ ‘But we have information that you have signed a petition to join the Democratic Party.’ ‘Yeah, I could have.’
It’s because they had someone outside every K-Mart when I lived in New York. They receive 10 cents per signature. I’m sure I signed up for Republicans and Democrats. They said, “Go back and prove you didn’t vote.” I had to hire a lawyer to go into the electoral records to prove that my name was not there, because if it was, I could not become a citizen. So it took me nine years to become a citizen. Everyone who’s been here, works, lives like Americans – just give them a green card.
Coller: Was it a comedy due to a desire to point out the hypocrisy?

Stormare: No no. It’s so important to me.

If I run for president, the first thing I would do is legalize everyone who came here to pay taxes, to work, to pay taxes. Mothers and fathers of children born in the United States should obtain a green card. Are you scamming the system? You should be deported – as it happens in all other countries. But I guess we’re diving into satire a bit. We tried to go a little

Dough: The inclusion of immigration commentary was obviously a big part of season two. Were there any other goals you were aiming for after learning what a TV season was like?

Stormare: We tried to be diverse. I wanted a black girl. I wanted to have a really good young black actress because we’re bringing her mother back in season three.

Dough: The twist!

Stormare: The mother tried to kill me for being unfaithful, so she shot me in the back. She spent her life in prison and I never told my daughter. [I] told her that she had died in a car accident.

Dough: Has it been chosen yet?

Stormare: We have a dream: Angela Bassett. So we have to start harassing her with emails and love letters.

In short, season 2… This country is full of private detectives, stories like this. My two friends who I based the show on, the stories they tell me are mostly surveillance, but sometimes it’s crazy crazy stories. Of course, they live off crazy customers – you can’t refuse the money. For example, if a customer walks in and says, “My cat is poisoning me,” you need to refute it.
Coller: Wait, is this real?

Stormare: Yeah! There must be something wrong with this guy’s head, but if he pays you $5,000, you’re doing the job.

Paste: How to prove that a cat does not poison anyone?

Stormare: You install cameras. You take pictures. And then you show that the food in the fridge has never been touched by the cat.

Dough: Did this season draw stories from their lives?

Stormare: Yeah, a few stories.

Dough: Was anyone talking about the Hollywood Boulevard costume hustlers?

Stormare: Yeah. I live a few blocks away and sometimes there are fights between them. You can’t do this now, it’s in the 100’s and they’ve been on the streets sweating their lives. I want to see one take their head off and say ‘Damn, I need some water.’ And the kids will freak out.

Dough: I love how the show loves and cares for its losers.

Stormare: Let the characters carry the story. Let the audience be one step back instead of two steps forward like most American shows. Your NCSI: Miami, New York, Los Angeles [sic]…

Paste: Nice formula.

Stormare: You just know. “It’s him, idiots.”

Paste: How do you avoid this while writing?

Stormare: I’m the last to scrutinize everything. “Out, out, out. Simplify.’ Let the audience guess. Take out the exhibit. It’s American writing. It’s a disease. Write one line instead of five.

You had a pretty successful thing, The Last Man on Earth. The first season was really, really good. I think he lost a bit when he shaved off half his beard. There were Twin Peaks, you were a bit late and drawn to the characters. You wanted to know more. Mostly, in this country, they smother you with information.
Coller: Is that mindset something you brought to directing your first TV episode this season?

Stormare: Definitely. I will do three next season.

Keanu Reeves [who plays Tex on the show] will be directing one next season.

You know, I started very young as a director and I fell into theatre. I had to take over some of our direction. Then people said, ‘Damn, you’re a great actor. You should do more theater. For a while I did both, directing and acting. Sometimes the main actor was too drunk and fell in the shower. This happened several times.

Paste: What was the play that took you from director to actor?

Stormare: You don’t know, but it was a great Swedish novel that I adapted for the stage and the lead role fell. I was called to a meeting by [then managing director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre] Ingmar Bergman, who was my mentor. He said: “We have bad news. Mr. X fell in the bathroom while taking a shower…”

Dough: Was that one of the drunken moments?

Stormare: Yeah [laughs] or he walked into a doorjamb. But he said, “Opening night is tomorrow. He’s going to be gone for a few weeks. ‘ I asked, ‘Do we have a list? I can start looking for a replacement. They look at me. Bergman said, “There is only one candidate. I’m looking at you, kid. ‘ ‘Oh fuck, I can’t. He’s in every fucking scene for four hours. ‘

So I did opening night and got rave reviews. The piece as a whole may have taken second place, but I got rave reviews.
Coller: Did you believe all of this?

Stormare: No, but I believed Bergman – my mentor, my surrogate father, because my parents lived in Africa. He said to me, “Jesus Christ, I always knew you were a fucking actor, but you beat me as a fucking director. You are a dangerous child. He was my best friend for many, many years until his death.

Dough: It must be hard to go back after hearing that from one of the greats.

Stormare: I was offered a role on Broadway to be in King Lear as the Earl of Gloucester. I said, “Jesus, I was 30 when I did Gloucester with Bergman in a leotard.” You can’t have old people around King Lear, they have to be young vampires who want to suck blood. I’ve done it 400 times worldwide. Doing it again for a director I don’t even know? I can’t.

Dough: Is there a Shakespearean role you will return for?

Stormare: It’s very difficult for me to work with…what should I say…someone who is the worst director than me. It’s difficult for me to do theater after working with Bergman. I’ve done a few plays and… they don’t have talent. They bring people from England all the time and think they are related to the Bard. As if they knew everything. This country, everyone bows to the English.

Paste: Americans will do anything for a British accent.

Stormare:Exactly. [Affects a posh accent] Oh, you have to stand here. Then you come here and sit over there. Incredible steering. [Returns to normal accent] I worked for a couple in New York and I-sus…. [After a long tangent about the various healthcare systems around the world] I have a series called The Medicine Man Nobody Wants to Touch, about people in the medical industry – the workers in the field – who steal drugs and make drugs in the labs, then put them in their pockets as if you were working in a candy factory. In pharmaceutical corners, they have a nickname for these people: The Medicine Man. They make their own dope on the side, selling it.

Paste: Do you have a driver written for this?

Stormare: Yeah, but they say, ‘You can do a documentary.’ But getting a series on a big network? They are very reluctant. Because as soon as they announce it, there will be lawsuits. I will continue to fight for this, but we were very close to DreamWorks two years ago. But they said it was too risky. One day we will do it in Europe for a fraction of the money, in Lithuania or something like that. Place it in another country, a fictional USA

Dough: To change direction, I have to mention Until Dawn, which is one of my favorite video games – partly because of your acting.

Stormare: I’ve seen friends send me clips where my face is all changed and weird. [Laughs]. This had a huge impact.

Dough: Do you have any final words for people watching Swedish Dicks and thinking about immigration?

Stormare: People registered to vote should vote. I vote all the time. If I’m not in the country, I do it by mail. Sometimes I don’t know who people are – I just choose the Democrat girl.

Get off the couch. You should watch Swedish Dicks, then get off the couch and do something.

Paste: And will change the world.

Stormare: Yes, will change the world!