Thanks to his cold look with deep eyes, Peter Stormare is a popular character in movies like the Fargo comedy by the Coen brothers. He is an adaptable and versatile actor that played in many movies from Hollywood but also in smaller movies from the US or Europe. One such example is Dancer in the Dark, a movie from 2000, by Lars von Trier.

Stormare was born in Sweden in 1953 and his beginnings were at a Swedish theater, where he stayed for his first 11 years of his career. While there, he played in productions like The Electric Boy or El Paso.

He received great praise while playing in productions by Shakespeare, like Hamlet or King Lear. Later, he debuted on the big screen and in 1982 he appeared shortly in Fanny and Alexander. He continued to collaborate with Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish director for over a decade and a half, receiving great praise for his roles, including the one from Hamlet, which he played in 1988.

In 1990, Peter was a Director of the Tokyo Globe, making his debut in America in Awakenings, where he played the role of a neurochemist. He showed up in a number of other films, like Damage or Freud’s Leaving Home, the two movies appearing in 1991 and 1992. One of his best roles in the US, which made him well known, was that of the kidnapper from the movie Fargo.

Even though he played in a number of Swedish movies, he started playing more in US movies, and he had great roles in movies with a huge budget, like Armageddon or Jurassic Park.

Other movies he played in were Bruiser, in 2000, and Dancer. In Watching Ellie he played as the superintendent of Julia Dreyfuss, after which he went on to play in Minority Report, Windtalkers and The Tuxedo.

Perhaps one of the roles he is most known for is the one played in the TV series Prison Break.