A celebrated actor, director and playwright in his native Sweden, Peter Stormare made his American film breakthrough playing a quiet, sociopathic killer in the Coen Brothers’ dark comedy, "Fargo" (1997). Prior to that, Stormare enjoyed a 15-year association with Ingmar Bergman at the Royal National Theatre of Sweden and appeared in films from such international directors as Louis Malle and Susanne Bier. In the U.S., Stormare went on to enjoy a prolific film career playing mean-spirited villains, intelligent bad guys, and ominous “foreigners” in high profile blockbusters like “Armageddon” (1998) and “Minority Report” (2002). He occasionally had opportunities to stretch his range for European directors like Lasse Hallstrom with “Chocolat” (2000) and Lars von Trier with “Dancer in the Dark” (2000), but mainstream American audiences came to recognize him through his many discomforting supporting roles as amoral ne’er do wells and mysteriously evil authority figures.