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
The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.
'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.
We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
We remake 'Hamlet' all the time. That's sort of what we do, humans.
We have nobility in Sweden, and it comes from the old British aristocracy.
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 on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
I would like to be able to do as many of my own stunts where I can.
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
When it's a moral grey zone, the audience has to think about what they feel and what they think is right or wrong. You want to affect your audience and make them think.