Peter Stormare

format_quote I was a foreigner, and I knew that most of the parts I would be offered would be foreigners. I knew I could not compete with Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Nicolas Cage, and so I did not fight it. I saw the path I was destined to walk and decided to do the parts that would be offered to me as well as I possibly could. --on his initial career outlook when he first came to the U.S. to act.

stars  Discovered by Ingmar Bergman.

stars  Was offered the part of Eddie the Dane (originally named Eddie the Swede) in Miller's Crossing (1990), but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts.

stars  Has played a German (The Big Lebowski (1998)), a Frenchman (Chocolat (2000)), a Russian (Bad Boys II (2003)), a Swede (Minority Report (2002)), and an Italian ("Prison Break" (2005)).

stars  His favorite actor is Gary Oldman.

stars  In addition to being a stage and screen actor, he was quite prolific as a playwright and a theater director.