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
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.
I've learned to steer away from the wrong kind of woman for me.
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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.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
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.
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.
It's so scary to go on stage. I used to throw up before I went on stage, every time.
A big moment for me was when I did a play that was a new adaptation of Dostojevskij's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I played Raskolnikov. It was actually the first thing I did when I got out of acting school.
It's technically demanding to shoot in 3-D. It's an extra element. Also, just the size of the cameras. They look like these 'Transformers' monsters; they are incredibly big, many of them.