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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Peter, in brief

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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