Peter Blomquist
Acting
Biography
Peter Blomquist is an American actor and writer who lives in New York, USA. He is perhaps best known for being the motion capture and voice of Micah Bell, one of the members of the Van der Linde gang in 2018’s Red Dead Redemption 2, one of the biggest video games of all-time. He also voiced Dr Harlan Fontaine in the chart-topping game L.A. Noire and is the brains behind Get Hit, a comedy TV series that he wrote and starred in. Blomquist launched his screen career in 2008 with Get Hit, playing Gary Thornquist and writing and directing all six episodes. Three years later, he made his video-game debut with the character of Dr Harlan Fontaine in L.A. Noire, a detective action-adventure game by Rockstar Games. The game was six years in development and topped the UK video-game charts on its release in May 2011. It became the first video-game to be screened at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, drawing widespread acclaim from critics and helping to further position video-games as a serious art-form. This shift became more apparent with the next game Blomquist was involved with, Red Dead Redemption 2, another Rockstar action-adventure game that was praised by critics and fans alike. Released in 2018, the game enjoyed the most successful launch weekend in entertainment history — that includes the biggest films imaginable — taking $725 million in sales during its opening weekend and eclipsing the success of its predecessor. As a screen actor, Blomquist has also appeared in some diverse and challenging films, including genre-bending road movie Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road) and 2019’s Rawmouth.
Known For
In the illustrious tradition of on-the-road, rambler cinema, Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road) is a fresh, experimental take. Heavily reliant on motion graphics animation, director William Cusick charts the surreal encounters of five overlapping strangers in the American desert. The spirit calls to mind David Lynch, and more recently Calvin Lee Reeder and Cory McAbee, but it never feels derivative, it always brings fresh light...Cinema often loses power in clarity, in a strict adherence to narrative logic. The unwieldy and fractured nature of Welcome To Nowhere offers more than a story, here, all that really matters is the weariness of the ramble. It's hazy and sweaty and sketched. "You know how some pills you take are clear, but on the inside are all these little balls of shit that are really the pill?" That's where nowhere is. This used to be the stuff of cult classics.
Welcome to Nowhere (Bullet Hole Road)
Get Hit is an American television and web series, which airs on the IFC in the United States. The show follows Billy Lang and Garlyn Thornquist, the creators of the greatest viral video of all time, "The Ball Kicking Fight Club" which garnered over 1.6 trillion views worldwide. Their glory soon faded, and to try and reignite their success, they offer their knowledge in front of the cameras, and the audience follows them as they create and market their viral videos. The show is produced and filmed in New York City by Franco and Billy LLC.
Get Hit
On a frigid night in the distant past, two gatekeepers of the kingdom Zyron are met by two gentlemen of a rival domain claiming to have escaped an attack by Rawmouth - an ancient, mythical monster. When the creature appears, the adversaries must put aside their differences to defend themselves before being forced to perform the beast's unsavory wishes.
Rawmouth
NYC’s genre-bending Temporary Distortion mines the worlds of Japanese ghost stories and J-Horror in Americana Kamikaze. Inside one of Temporary Distortion’s signature box structures, an East-meets-West psychological horror story unspools, complete with vengeful spirits, impossible physical manipulations, elliptical storylines, nightmarish cinematography and stunning visuals. Temporary Distortion has been making new works that seamlessly blend theater, cinema and installation since 2002. Their work has been presented in the US, Canada, France and Austria.