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My Take
Peter Stormare is my favorite kind of actor: the one directors call when a scene needs genuine menace or strangeness. The range is absurd when you lay it out, from playing Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman on the Swedish stage to the wordless horror of Fargo and the mob boss John Abruzzi in Prison Break. He brings theatrical discipline to pulp material, which is why his villains feel heavier than the scripts deserve. I admire that he never chased leading-man status; he understood that character actors get the most interesting work. Few performers have made silence as frightening as he has.
Overview
Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare (Swedish: [ˈpěːtɛr ˈstɔ̂rːmarɛ] ; né Storm, 27 August 1953) is a Swedish and American actor. He played Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman, Gaear Grimsrud in the film Fargo (1996) and John Abruzzi in the television series Prison Break (2005–2007).
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Peter Stormare
- Name (Japanese)
- ピーター・ストーメア
- Reading
- ぴーたー・すとーめあ
- Born
- August 27, 1953 (age 72)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Snake
- Origin
- Kumla, Örebro County, Sweden
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / director / singer / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Stage actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from Sweden →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.