Peter Stormare

Peter has appeared on cover page of Swedish magazines Aftonbladet and Filmtidninge.

Peter is in the music video for Toby Keith and Willie Nelson's "Beer For My Horses" and The Wannadies' "Might Be Stars".

Peter's parents are Renato Storm and Teodolinda Laparelli.

Peter became an American citizen in the early 1990s.

Along with being an actor, Peter is also a playwright and a theatre director.

As of 2008, Peter is married to Toshimi Stormare.

In 2001, he was nominated for a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture for the movie Chocolat.

In February of 2006, he starred as Wolfgang in Volkswagen's Un-Pimp ze Auto series of television commercials. He plays a German engineer who "un-pimps" tricked-out economy cars by destroying them using comical methods and then giving the surprised owner a new Volkswagen GTI. The commercials are a parody of MTV's Pimp My Ride. He has also a done print ad for Hennes & Mauritz.

Peter is a very religious man.

Peter is allergic to wheat.

Peter's last name, Stormare, is pronounced Store-mahr-eh.

Peter knew the Coen brothers before he was cast in the movie Fargo (1996).

He was accidentally hit quite hard by Mark Hamill during a fight scene in Hamilton in 1998.

He was a H&M model in the fall of 2002.

When Peter quit his acting job in Sweden, what he really wanted to do was to become a rock musican.

His band Blond From Fargo is a 5 member group, and includes the guitarist from Roxette, Alanis Morissette's drummer and the bass player from Slash's Snakepit.

His favorite actor is Gary Oldman.

In his band Blond From Fargo he writes the music and plays guitar.

He became the associate artistic director of the Globe Theatre in Tokyo, Japan in 1990.

His apperance in Hamlet on the New York Stage lead to his first roles in American feature films.

Early in his career he had leading parts in plays such as Long Day's Journey Into Night, Miss Julie, King Lear and Hamlet.

Peter loves bands such as The Beatles, The Clash and Nirvana.

His real name is Peter Ingvar Rolf Storm. He changed his last name to Stormare when he started studying acting and there was another student at the school with a similar name.

Peter is 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 metres) tall.

He played a Russian character in the movie Armageddon.

He played a German character in The Big Lebowski.

He has a daughter, Kelly, with American actress Karen Sillas.

He is the godfather to Stellan Skarsgård's son Gustav Skarsgård.