Actors - Peter Stormare

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(born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film actor. With his fluency in English and his skill for mimicking accents he has become much in demand in Hollywood productions, where he usually plays Europeans of varied nationality and often of dubious morality.

Early life

Stormare was born in Arbrå, Sweden as "Peter Storm," but changed his name when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled backwards), was rejected.

Career

In Sweden, Stormare has been in different film and stage projects, including work with Ingmar Bergman. He has also played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent similar to James Bond.

He was critically praised for his role as a quiet and ruthless villain (with Steve Buscemi) in Fargo
(1996), and later played a sleazy, unlicensed "eye doctor" ("Solomon Eddie") in Minority Report
. Stormare has also had a minor role on Seinfeld
as "Slippery Pete" in the episode The Frogger. His classic portrayal of nihilist Ulee Kunkel in the 1997 film The Big Lebowski is among Stormare's finest and most memorable work, particularly in the scenes of Logjammin', the movie within the movie, as "cable repairman" Karl Hungus. He was also memorable as a Russian Cosmonaut in 1999's Armageddon. In the 2005 film Constantine
, Stormare played Satan. His real TV breakthrough as a major character was on the show Prison Break in 2005, where he played John Abruzzi. He also was the voice of Mattias Nilsson in the videogame Mercenaries:Playground of Destruction.

In February 2006, he starred as "Vdub" in Volkswagen's "Un-pimp Your Auto" series of television commercials. He plays a German engineer who "un-pimps" tricked-out economy cars by destroying them using humorous methods and then giving the shocked owner a new Volkswagen GTI. He speaks in Urban American English with an exaggerated German accent, saying things like "German engineering in da house, ja" and "representing Deutschland." The commercials are a parody of MTV's popular show Pimp My Ride in which auto-body mechanics give run down, older cars an urban makeover with things like tinted windows, spoilers, flashy rims, and loud stereos.

Private life

Stormare is also a musician. After Bono of U2 heard some of Stormare's music, he encouraged him to make an album and in 2002, he released his first album, Dallerpölsa och småfåglar. Stormare is the godfather of Gustaf Skarsgård and plays in a band called Blonde From Fargo.

Filmography (selected)

The Batman vs Dracula (DVD-only release) (2005)
Prison Break (TV series) (2005 - present)
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
Quake 4 (Computer game) (2005)
Constantine
(2005)
Bad Boys II
(2003)
Minority Report
(2002)
Windtalkers
(2002)
Bad Company (2002)
Chocolat
(2000)
Dancer in the Dark
(2000)
8mm
(1999)
Armageddon
(1998)
The Big Lebowski
(1998)
Hamilton
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)
Fargo
(1996)
Damage
(1992)

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