Swedish actor, director, and playwright

Peter Stormare

Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare 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). He has appeared in films including The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Playing God (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Armageddon (1998), 8mm (1999), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Windtalkers (2002), Minority Report (2002), Bad Boys II (2003), Constantine (2005), 22 Jump Street (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Until Dawn (2025), The Blacklist (2013) and the video games Destiny (2014), Until Dawn (2015), and Destiny 2 (2017).

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1953

August 27

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1953 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

410 The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
1172 Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England.
1232 Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class.
1353 War of the Straits and Sardinian–Aragonese war: The Battle of Alghero results in a crushing victory of the allied Aragonese and Venetian fleet over the Genoese fleet, most of which is captured.

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The world in 1953

When Peter arrived

april 13 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
april 24 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
april 25 Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
april 27 Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defects with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on August 27

Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alexander Farnese 1545–1592 Duke of Parma (died 1592) Alice Coltrane 1937–2007 American pianist and composer (died 2007) Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Friedrich Martens 1845–1909 Estonian-Russian historian, lawyer, and diplomat (died 1909) Giorgio Mitrovich 1795–1885 Maltese politician (died 1885) Mario 1986– American singer and actor Mase 1975– American rapper, songwriter and pastor Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. 1915– American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2011)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1953

Alex Grey 1953– American visual artist and author Alex Lifeson 1953– Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Alister McGrath 1953– Irish priest, historian, and theologian Andy Partridge 1953– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer Angélica Aragón 1953– Mexican film, television, and stage actress and singer Arielle Dombasle 1953– French-American actress and model Ben Bernanke 1953– American economist Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor

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