Rolf Peter Ingvar Stormare (Swedish: [ˈpěːtɛr ˈstɔ̂rːmarɛ] ⓘ; né Storm, 27 August 1953) is a Swedish-American actor.
He played Hamlet for Ingmar Bergman,[1] Gaear Grimsrud in the film Fargo (1996) and John Abruzzi in the television series Prison Break (2005–2017).
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), and 22 Jump Street (2014), and the video games Destiny (2014), Until Dawn (2015), and Destiny 2 (2017).
Before settling on Stormare, he briefly contemplated changing his name to Retep Mrots, which is "Peter Storm" backwards.
Stormare starred in Ingmar Bergman's production of Hamlet; Hilary DeVries of The Christian Science Monitor wrote: "in the electrifying lead performance by Peter Stormare, Hamlet is, for all his Angst-filled poses and dark glasses, no hamstrung cliche but Denmark's only ballast between the debauched Claudius and the fascistic Fortinbras.
[9] In 2017, he played a minor role in John Wick: Chapter 2 and the part of Czernobog on the Starz series American Gods.
[10] He appeared in the music video of the song "Uprising" by the Swedish power metal band Sabaton.