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
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.
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.
Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.
It's always the thing when you're shooting out and about with real people and you could get a couple of bogeys like sticking their face in front of the camera, like 'Hey!'
I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.
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.
It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.
I'm a bit like a chameleon with my accent.
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.
I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.
I'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!
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.