Line #12 Creator/PeterStormare


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2	[[caption-width-right:330:"We believe in noshing, Lebowski!"]]
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4	->''"Believing in nothing, severing pinkie toes, and just generally giving off the impression that he's committed a couple of sex crimes lately."''
5	-->-- '''''Website/{{Cracked}}'''''
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7	Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm (born August 27, 1953), better-known by his stage name Peter Stormare, is a UsefulNotes/{{Swed\|en}}ish character actor with supporting roles in film, live TV and video games and animated shows. Dude showed up in Nickelodeon's ''Ninja Turtles'' of all places.
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9	Allegedly, the reason for his name change is that he shared it with an older student. He wasn't even out of school and he made sure people wouldn't go around mistaking him for someone else.
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11	He began his acting career with the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre, before his apparent discovery by Creator/IngmarBergman. He is close friends with Creator/StellanSkarsgard, and godfather of Creator/GustafSkarsgard.
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13	He made his name playing one of the StupidCrooks in ''Fargo''. Americans may also recognize him as one of the dino-hunters in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''. Apart from that, this guy always gets [[PlaysGreatEthnics typecast as Russians or Ukrainians]].
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15	Oddly, the smaller the role, the more memorable his characters tend to be. Peter Stormare (a devout Christian in real-life) is one of the best depictions of {{Satan}} in cinema....and it's in ''Film/{{Constantine\|2005}}''? (Implying that Creator/KeanuReeves and Creator/ShiaLaBeouf didn't turn in powerhouse performances.) He literally [[OneSceneWonder shows up in the last 10 minutes and steals the movie]]. Easily one of his best; maybe ''the'' best.
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17	[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv157ZIInUk An]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCIF6JF1O5U automotive]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0WfnhVs2s ad]] campaign featured him as a German pseudo-hip hop artist/"engineer" answering to V-Dub, whose shtick was violently ''un''-[[Series/PimpMyRide pimping ze autos]] by smashing them to scrap and giving their owners Volkswagens.
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19	!!Notable acting roles:
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21	[[AC:Film]]
22	* ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'' (1982) as an extra
23	* ''Film/{{Awakenings}}'' (1990) as Neurochemist
24	* ''[[Film/Damage1992 Damage]]'' (1992) as Peter
25	* ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' (1996) as Gaer Grimsrud
26	* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' (1997) as Dieter Stark
27	* ''Film/{{Armageddon\|1998}}'' (1998) as Lev Andropov
28	* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' (1998) as Uli Kunkel / Karl Hungus
29	* ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'' (1999) as Cavin Guthrie
30	* ''Film/EightMM'' (1999) as Dino Velvet
31	* ''Film/{{Bruiser}}'' (2000) as Milo Styles
32	* ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'' (2000) as Serge Muscat
33	* ''Film/DancerInTheDark'' (2000) as Jeff
34	* ''Film/MinorityReport'' (2002) as Dr. Solomon Eddie
35	* ''Film/{{Windtalkers}}'' (2002) as Gunnery Sergeant Hjelmstad
36	* ''Film/TheTuxedo'' (2002) as Dr. Simms
37	* ''Film/{{Bad Company\|2002}}'' (2002) as Adrik Vas
38	* ''Film/BadBoysII'' (2003) as Alexei
39	* ''Film/{{Birth}}'' (2004) as Clifford
40	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatmanVsDracula'' (2005) as {{Dracula}}
41	* ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'' (2005) as Cavaldi
42	* ''Film/{{Constantine\|2005}}'' (2005) as Lucifer
43	* ''Film/NachoLibre'' (2006) as Emperor
44	* ''Film/{{Unknown\|2006}}'' (2006) as Snakeskin Boots
45	* ''Film/{{Premonition}}'' (2007) as Dr. Roth
46	* ''Film/{{Switch\|1991}}'' (2007) as Tommen
47	* ''Film/{{Boot Camp\|2008}}'' (2008) as Dr. Arthur Hall
48	* ''Film/{{Horsemen}}'' (2009) as David Spitz
49	* ''Film/TheKillingRoom'' (2009) as Dr. Phillips
50	* ''Film/TheImaginariumOfDoctorParnassus'' (2009) as The President
51	* ''Film/HenrysCrime'' (2010) as Darek Millodragovic
52	* ''Film/{{Marianne\|2011}}'' (2011) as Sven
53	* ''Film/{{Lockout}}'' (2012) as Scott Langral
54	* ''Film/GetTheGringo'' (2012) as Frank Fowler
55	* ''Film/TaiChiHero'' (2012) as Duke Fleming
56	* ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'' (2013) as Sheriff Berringer
57	* ''Film/TheLastStand'' (2013) as Thomas Burrell
58	* ''Film/TheZeroTheorem'' (2013) as Doctor
59	* ''Film/PainAndGain'' (2013) as Dr. Bjornson
60	* ''Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreet'' (2014) as Ghost
61	* ''Film/{{Rage\|2014}}'' (2014) as O'Connell
62	* ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' (2014) as Corporal
63	* ''Film/{{Clown}}'' (2014) as Herbert Karlsson
64	* ''[[Film/The11thHour2014 The 11th Hour]]'' (2014) as The Russian
65	* ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' (2017) as Abram
66	* ''Film/{{Songbird}}'' (2020) as Emmett Harland
67	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cryptozoo}}'' (2021) as Gustav
68	* ''Film/DayShift'' (2022)
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70	[[AC:Music Videos]]
71	* Music/{{Sabaton}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzeNBRbWXpI "Uprising"]] (2010) as the German SS commander
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73	[[AC:Television]]
74	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' (1998) as Slippery Pete
75	* ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'' (2003) as Ernst Roehm
76	* ''Series/PrisonBreak'' (2005) as John Abruzzi
77	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' (2008) as Meltdown
78	* ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' (2009) as Aaron Cohen
79	* ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' (2010) as Chef
80	* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' (2010) as Drago Zankovic
81	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' (2010) as Sir Slicer
82	* ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' (2012) as Interpol Agent Martin Kallstrom
83	* ''Series/TheBlacklist'' (2014) as Milos Kirchoff A.K.A. Berlin
84	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' (2014) as Werner Zytle / Count Vertigo
85	* ''Series/{{Longmire}}'' (2014) as Chance Gilbert
86	* ''Series/{{Manhattan}}'' (2016-2016) as Lazar
87	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|2012}}'' (2015) as Lord Dregg
88	* ''Series/{{American Gods\|2017}}'' (2017) as Czernobog
89	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania\|2017}}'' (2018) as Godbrand
90	* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (2020) as Kristoff Van Bradford
91	* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020'' as Nickelwise
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93	[[AC:Video Games]]
94	* ''VideoGame/IcewindDale II'' (2002) as Isair
95	* ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'' (2005) as Pvt. Johann Strauss
96	* ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}'' (2005) as Mattias Nilsson
97	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' (2008) as Dr. Gregor Zelinsky
98	* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' (2012) as Dr. Aldini, Huiginn, Muninn
99	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'' (2014) as Jorunn the Skald King
100	* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' (2014) as Dead Orbit Faction Leader
101	* ''VideoGame/LegoJurassicWorld'' (2015) as Dieter Stark
102	* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' (2015) as Dr. A.J. Hill
103	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps4'' (2019) as The Replacer
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105	!!Tropes associated with him:
106	* AwesomeDearBoy: Peter Stormare cameos in the music video for Music/{{Sabaton}}'s song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzeNBRbWXpI "Uprising"]] as the unnamed German SS officer leading the crackdown on the Polish Resistance. According to bassist Pär Sundström, Stormare found the offer in a pile of offers he got from his agent when he was looking for his next gig, and just thought the idea was really cool.
107	* BilingualBonus: Sometimes speaks and/or swears in Swedish in some of his non-Swedish movies, most prominent in ''Film/MinorityReport'' and ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark''.
108	* ChronicallyKilledActor: Due to his tendency to play villains, his characters wind up dead.
109	* EvilIsBigger: He stands at 6'3 and plays a lot of unsavory dudes.
110	* FakeNationality: His knack for foreign accents has allowed him to be cast as a variety of nationalities, mostly East European. Even in Sweden he was not allowed to use his real accent for a role until ''Varg'' in 2008. Nowadays, he only accepts Swedish roles where he is allowed to use his real northern Swedish accent.
111	** He played an [[TheMafia Italian Mafia boss]] in ''Series/PrisonBreak''. [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent Not that his accent was much of a clue]].
112	** He un-pimped many autos portraying a German engineer with a fake German accent butchering rapper lingo in a Volkswagen ad campaign for the Golf GTI.
113	** The German nihilist in ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
114	** And of course the Russian astronaut in ''Film/Armageddon1998''.
115	* HuskyRusskie: Seems to end up playing one of these fairly often. Still FakeNationality.
116	* LargeHam: He acts in a very over the top fashion, and it usually makes the characters he plays much creepier for it, as they seem like they're genuinely insane. Inverted in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' (not detracting in the slightest from the creepy part, though).
117	* ManlyTears: Caused some headlines in Sweden when he was the only man to openly cry at Ingmar Bergman's funeral.
118	* PlaysGreatEthnics: The TropeCodifier. He's frequently cast as vaguely European types due to his ambiguous accents.
119	* StageNames: Arguably one of the few actors whose real name (''Rolf Ingvar Storm'') is cooler than his stage name.
120	* StarMakingRole: [[Film/{{Fargo}} Gaear Grimsrud.]]
121	* TheStoic: Many of his roles, most notably his StarMakingRole as the terrifyingly emotionless Gaear Grimsrud.

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