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 north of Sweden is very socialist and poor. They feel left out and despise Stockholm in many ways because Stockholm has become new liberals and much more Americanized.
I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.
If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories.
There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question, 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?', and they're finding out that, no, it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself, and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
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.