Peter Stormare

Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Peter Stormare (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈpeːtɛr ²stɔrːmarɛ]), is a Swedish actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright, and musician. He played Gaear Grimsrud in the 1996 film Fargo, John Abruzzi in the Fox series Prison Break and Ingmar in Swedish Dicks. 2Early life Stormare was born in Kumla, Sweden and grew up in Arbrå. He changed his surname when he discovered that he shared it with a senior student at an acting academy. Like "storm" (a word which has the same meaning in Swedish and English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer". Before settling on "Stormare", he briefly contemplated changing his name to "Mrots Retep", which is simply "Peter Storm" backwards. 2Acting career Stormare began his career with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for 11 years. In 1990, he took a leading position as Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances, including Hamlet. Three years later, he moved to New York City and mainly took part in English language productions there. He played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agen