Peter Stormare (help·info) (born 27 August 1953) is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician.
Peter Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden, the son of Gunhild Kristina (née Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland, Sweden as Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm, but changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His orig...
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Peter Stormare (help·info) (born 27 August 1953) is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician.
Peter Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden, the son of Gunhild Kristina (née Holm) and Karl Ingvar Storm. He grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland, Sweden as Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm, but changed his surname when he discovered he shared it with a senior student at the acting academy. His original choice of name, Retep Mrots (his own name spelled backwards), was rejected. Just like "storm" (a word which has the same meaning in Swedish and English), "stormare" is a Swedish word, meaning "stormer".
Stormare began his career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for eleven years. In 1990 he took a leading position (Associate Artistic Director) at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances including Hamlet. Three years later, he went to New York and mainly took...
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