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
Moving in is almost a bigger step than getting married.
We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.
The original 'RoboCop' was X-rated, and then they had to cut it down so it became R-rated, and Verhoeven claimed that actually made the movie more violent, because it's what you don't see that actually scares you.
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
My impression was, 'This Hollywood thing doesn't seem too hard.'
I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.
I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
I have a lot of funny friends, and we joke a lot, but I've never really played comedic parts.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
What we did wrong on 'RoboCop,' we just did something new and didn't really take into account what the fans really loved about the original.
I think 'The Wire' is my all-time favorite TV show. It's so brilliant, the way it critiques society, and how it handles that everybody who gets power loses their moral code and stops going to the root of the problem and just tries to maintain their own power.
My sister was an actress when I was a kid - she still is a successful stage actress in Sweden.
My parents got married when I was 12.
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.