Lorne Malvo

Lorne Malvo is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the first season of the FX television series Fargo. He is portrayed by Billy Bob Thornton, who received critical acclaim for his performance and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award. 2Character arc 32006 Lorne Malvo was a hitman and bounty hunter, based in Reno, Nevada. He was hired to kidnap and presumably murder Phil McCormick. He attacked Phil at his workplace and dragged him to his car and tossed him in his trunk. On his way to his destination, Malvo got into an accident in rural Minnesota, hitting a deer, and sustained a head injury. The crash caused his trunk to pop open, allowing McCormick to escape. McCormick, however, died shortly thereafter by freezing to death. After getting his injury checked out at the local hospital, Malvo meets Lester Nygaard waiting in line to receive treatment for an accident. Lester tells Malvo about how his nose was broken by a man named Sam Hess, a childhood bull