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Joel Kinnaman Charles Joel Nordström , professionally known
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 for his role as Frank Wagner in the Johan Falk film series.
From 2011 to 2013, he starred in AMC's The Killing.
Personal life Kinnaman was born and raised in Stockholm,
Sweden. His mother, Bitte, a therapist, is Swedish. His father, Steve Kinnaman (originally
David Kinnaman), is American, and left the United States at the time of the Vietnam War.
He has both Swedish and American citizenship due to his father's United States birth. Kinnaman
is Jewish on his mother's side. He has five sisters, one of whom is actress Melinda Kinnaman
(his half-sister). Kinnaman spent a year in Texas as a high school exchange student.
He is in a relationship with American actress Olivia Munn.
Career Kinnaman started his acting career in 2002.
He made his breakthrough in the 2009 film I skuggan av värmen and his success continued
with a role in six films of the Johan Falk film series. He was then cast in the film
Easy Money (released January 2010), which brought him attention in Sweden and the rest
of the world. Looking to expand his acting career, Kinnaman hired an agent in the United
States, the same agent that represents Johnny Depp. It was announced in the spring of 2010
that he would be making his international film debut in the thriller The Darkest Hour,
which began filming in Moscow in June 2010 and was released in December 2011. Beginning
in April 2011, Kinnaman had a starring role as Detective Stephen Holder in the AMC television
series The Killing. Kinnaman was one of the contenders for the
lead roles in Thor (2011) and the upcoming Mad Max 4 (2015). He told the newspaper Östran
that "it was really close that I got the lead role in Mad Max 4. It stood between me and
two others, and the one who got the role was Tom Hardy who plays the lead role in the film
Bronson. was very pleased – but they needed someone who gave an older impression." Regarding
Thor, he has stated that "they wanted someone with a Scandinavian touch. At last we were
only five candidates left. Unfortunately I could not fly over and do test shoots with
Natalie Portman; it interfered with the filming of Snabba Cash". Although Kinnaman admits
that he is eager to work and become recognized in America, he says that "I absolutely don't
feel that I have to take any role that I can get just because it is the United States.
I'm looking for something interesting, I'm still young in my artistry, and I must dare
to do things even when there's a risk for failure".
On 3 March 2012, it was confirmed that Kinnaman would be playing the lead role of Alex James
Murphy/Robocop in the 2014 remake of 1987's RoboCop. The film was released in February
2014. Filmography