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Date of Birth

27 August 1953, Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden

Birth Name

Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm

Height

6' 3" (1.91 m)

Mini Biography

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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Spouse

Karen Sillas	(? - ?) (divorced) 1 child
Toshimi Stormare	(? - present)

Trivia

Godfather of Gustaf Skarsgård.

Last name pronounced Store-mahr-e.

Was offered the part of Eddie the Dane (originally named Eddie the Swede) in Miller's Crossing (1990), but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts.

Plays in a band called Blonde From Fargo.

Discovered by Ingmar Bergman.

In addition to being a stage and screen actor, he was quite prolific as a playwright and a theater director.

He was accidentally hit by Mark Hamill during a fight scene in Hamilton (1998).

Was a friend of Ethan Coen and Joel Coen long before he was cast in Fargo (1996).

Has a daughter, Kelly, with Karen Sillas.

Began using the name Stormare, since there were two Peter Storms at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre.

His favorite actor is Gary Oldman.

Became an American citizen in the late 1990s.

Has played a German (The Big Lebowski (1998)), a Frenchman (Chocolat (2000)), three Russians (Bad Boys II (2003), Armageddon (1998/I) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008) (VG)), a Swede (Minority Report (2002)), an Italian ("Prison Break" (2005)) and a Norwegian (Switch (2007/I)).

Peter is the owner of a record label: StormVox.

Released his first album in 2002: "Dallerpölsa och småfåglar".

Peter started his career in Royal Dramatic Theater in Sweden.

He moved to New York in 1993. Nowadays he lives in Los Angeles (2007).

He's an actor, a writer, a director, and a musician.

Whenever possible, he avoids watching himself in either TV shows or films.

Son of Renato Storm and Teodolinda Laparelli.

Personal Quotes

"I grew up in northern Sweden in a very small village and this is exactly the same. It's very strange. It's two hundred small villages linked together. Living here as compared to living in Tokyo, where I lived, or in London or New York, this is so much more like living in the country. You go to bed early and you get up early, even if you're not working. You get up early with the sun and go to bed with the sun. That is much more rural kind of living and it suits me so much better than New York." - On Los Angeles.

"I liked the way that film took realistic events and added this slightly out-of-kilter perspective. My character in that film was, in one sense, a caricature of a killer, but there was also a sense of mystery surrounding him that captured the imagination. Fargo (1996) was an exciting experience for me largely because of the approach the Coen brothers took. It was the antithesis of Armageddon (1998/I). It was low-budget, a very guerrilla-style approach to filmmaking that made its own rules and was very specific in what it was trying to accomplish." --on Fargo (1996).

"I was a foreigner, and I knew that most of the parts I would be offered would be foreigners. I knew I could not compete with Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage, and so I did not fight it. I saw the path I was destined to walk and decided to do the parts that would be offered to me as well as I possibly could." --on his initial career outlook when he first came to the U.S. to act.

Upon receiving the Fargo (1996) script: "Where are all my lines?!"

"I've done Hamlet, and no one talks about Hamlet killing five people. No one even talks about sending him to jail. And it's the same thing for a character like Abruzzi. I think people root for him because he's just punishing people who are bad humans in a way. Always in movies and TV, in drama we always root for those characters. Even if they have killed four or five people, they have killed people that we've really disliked. They have done us a service. And he's such a character. That's why I've tried to keep him very Shakespearean." --talking about his character John Abruzzi from "Prison Break" (2005)

They [the Coen Brothers] have an obsession with pancakes. It's a Midwestern thing, I guess. I had never had pancakes. I grew up in Sweden, and I'm not a big fan of pancakes.

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