Peter Stormare
Peter Stormare (August 27, 1953) was born in Arbrå, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. He is a Swedish film, stage, voice and television actor as well as a theatrical director, playwright and musician. He is perhaps best known for his roles as John Abruzzi in Prison Break and as Gaear Grimsrud, one of the two kidnappers in Fargo.
Peter Stormare began his acting career at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden, performing for eleven years. In 1990 he became the Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and directed productions of many Shakespeare plays, including “Hamlet”. In 1993 he moved to New York, where he appeared in English productions. He continues to work in both the United States and his his homeland of Sweden. He resides in Los Angeles, California, USA, with his wife.
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Peter Stormare Movies
Discover the best Peter Stormare movies. Explore the complete filmography, including top-rated classics, newest releases, and highest-grossing films starring Peter Stormare ranked by year and score.
1
Until Dawn (2025)
Horror
Mystery
Grief drives Clover and her closest friends into a desolate mountain valley, the last known location of her sister Melanie, who vanished without a trace a year earlier. What they...
Score
6.3
2
Songbird (2020)
Science Fiction
Thriller
Four years into a mutating pandemic, Los Angeles has become a city of checkpoints, quarantine camps, and enforced separation. Nico is one of the lucky few with proven immunity, a...
Score
6.2
3
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Action
Crime
Thriller
Barely out of the chaos that consumed the first film, John Wick finds himself dragged back in by an old debt he cannot refuse. A blood oath compels him to...
Score
7.3
4
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
Action
Fantasy
Horror
The fairy tale ends where the real story begins. Years after escaping that infamous gingerbread house, Hansel and Gretel have built a brutal career hunting witches for hire, working their...
Score
6.1
5
The Last Stand (2013)
Action
Crime
Thriller
A burned-out ex-cop trades Los Angeles for the dusty anonymity of a border-town sheriff's post, hoping to leave his failures behind. When a cartel kingpin and his armed convoy barrel...
Score
6.1
6
Henry’s Crime (2010)
Comedy
Crime
Henry is a directionless toll booth worker who ends up behind bars for a bank robbery he had absolutely nothing to do with. When he gets out, a slippery ex-con...
Score
5.8
7
Constantine (2005)
Action
Fantasy
Horror
John Constantine is not a hero by choice. A chain-smoking exorcist with a one-way ticket to Hell already punched, he operates in the grimy spiritual underworld lurking beneath Los Angeles,...
Score
7.1
8
Spun (2003)
Comedy
Crime
Drama
Three days in the life of Ross, a college dropout whose world has collapsed into a single obsession: crystal meth. Between frantic runs with a local dealer known only as...
Score
6.6
9
Minority Report (2002)
Action
Science Fiction
Thriller
In a near-future Washington D.C., murder has been effectively eliminated by a police unit that arrests killers before they strike, relying on the visions of three psychic humans called precogs....
Score
7.4
10
Windtalkers (2002)
Action
War
During the Pacific campaign of World War II, the U.S. military deployed Navajo soldiers as code talkers, their native language serving as an unbreakable cipher the Japanese could never crack....
Score
6.3
11
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Crime
Drama
Selma is going blind, and she knows it. A Czech immigrant working a factory job in rural America, she has one obsessive goal: saving enough money to fund the operation...
Score
7.8
12
Armageddon (1998)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
An asteroid the size of Texas is eighteen days from ending all life on Earth, and NASA's best plan involves a roughneck oil driller named Harry Stamper. He gets to...
Score
6.8
13
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Comedy
Crime
Jeff Lebowski wants nothing more from life than a good bowling lane and a cold White Russian. When a pair of thugs mistake him for a wheelchair-bound millionaire who shares...
Score
7.8
14
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Action
Adventure
Science Fiction
Four years after the original park collapsed into chaos, Ian Malcolm thought he was done with dinosaurs. He was wrong. John Hammond reveals a second island, a hidden site where...
Score
6.6
15
Fargo (1996)
Crime
Drama
Thriller
Jerry Lundegaard is a desperate man with a foolproof idea: hire two criminals to kidnap his own wife and split the ransom money from his wealthy father-in-law. Naturally, things go...
Score
7.8
16
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Drama
Fantasy
Mystery
Childhood in the Ekdahl household is a warm, theatrical thing, full of candlelight and performance and the hum of family life. When the children's father dies, their mother's remarriage to...
Score
7.8
Peter Stormare TV Shows
Browse the ultimate list of Peter Stormare TV shows. Find top-rated television series, critically acclaimed dramas, and hit shows starring Peter Stormare.
1
Detective Hole (2026)
Crime
Mystery
Oslo is shaken by a string of killings that share an unsettling, deliberate logic, the kind that points toward something organized and deeply embedded. Harry Hole, a brilliant but self-destructive...
Score
7.3
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the highest-rated movies starring Peter Stormare?
According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Peter Stormare are Until Dawn, Songbird, and John Wick: Chapter 2.
How many movies and TV shows has Peter Stormare starred in?
Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 17 titles starring Peter Stormare, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.
Are the movies starring Peter Stormare worth watching?
Yes! The overall filmography starring Peter Stormare maintains a strong average user rating of 6.9 out of 10 across all tracked titles.