Joel Kinnaman
Joel Kinnaman
Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman, known professionally as Joel Kinnaman, is a Swedish-American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in the Swedish film Easy Money, a role that earned him a Guldbagge Award in the "Best Actor" category, and also for his roles as Frank Wagner in the Johan Falk film series and Governor Will Conway in the U.S. version of House of Cards. He starred on AMC's The Killing as detective Stephen Holder and played Alex...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth25 November 1979
CountrySweden
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit.
We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.
If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.
I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
In terms of whether my mom was influential, I think she instilled a certain way of thinking in me quite early: having a reflective mindset regarding my actions and trying to find the underlying reasons to behavior. I think that's quite helpful when you're trying to understand a character.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
Excuse me, I have to go. Somewhere there is a crime happening.
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
I really want to live in New York. That's the city of my dreams.