Charles Joel Nordstrom Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor and model who first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series.
34 Facts About Joel Kinnaman
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Joel Kinnaman has played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the Warner Bros.
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Charles Joel Nordstrom Kinnaman was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Joel Kinnaman's mother, Bitte, a therapist, is a Swedish citizen.
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Joel Kinnaman's father, Steve Kinnaman, is an American-born Swede who was drafted during the Vietnam War and deserted the military from his base in Bangkok.
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Joel Kinnaman is a dual citizen of Sweden and the United States.
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Joel Kinnaman has five sisters, one of whom is actress Melinda Kinnaman.
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Joel Kinnaman spent a year in Del Valle, Texas, as a high school exchange student.
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Prior, Joel Kinnaman revealed that he grew up with fellow actors Alexander Skarsgard and Noomi Rapace.
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Joel Kinnaman then traveled for four to five months at a time over a period of two years in Southeast Asia and South America, the latter with fellow Scandinavian actor David Dencik.
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Joel Kinnaman began his acting career as a child actor in Swedish soap opera.
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Joel Kinnaman worked on productions staged at the Backa Theatre in Gothenburg.
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Joel Kinnaman graduated from Malmo Theatre Academy in 2007 and started working at the Gothenburg City Theatre.
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Joel Kinnaman went on to star in nine Swedish films in 14 months.
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Joel Kinnaman was cast in the film Easy Money, which brought him mainstream attention in Sweden and at the international film market, and earned him a Guldbagge Award in the Best Actor category.
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Between April 2011 and August 2014, Joel Kinnaman had a four-season starring role as Detective Stephen Holder in the AMC television series The Killing, based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen.
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Joel Kinnaman was one of the contenders for the lead roles in Thor and Mad Max: Fury Road.
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In 2012, Joel Kinnaman reunited with Easy Money director Daniel Espinosa in the latter's Hollywood debut, Safe House, and starred in the indie film Lola Versus.
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In 2016, Joel Kinnaman played Rick Flag in the Warner Bros.
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Joel Kinnaman starred in the independent drama-thriller film Edge of Winter, in which he plays Elliot Baker, a father of two who takes his children on a shooting trip that goes wrong.
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Between 2016 and 2019, Joel Kinnaman worked on 4 different original productions of streaming television networks such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+.
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Also in 2019, Joel Kinnaman starred as Erik in the Amazon Prime Video series Hanna, an adaptation of the 2011 action film of the same name.
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Since 2019, Joel Kinnaman starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
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In 2019, Joel Kinnaman played Pete Koslow in Andrea Di Stefano's action thriller film The Informer.
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In 2020, Joel Kinnaman starred as Thomas Steinman in Yuval Adler's post-war thriller The Secrets We Keep.
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Joel Kinnaman starred in Jeremie Guez's crime drama Brothers by Blood which was released in the United States in 2021.
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In January 2021, it was announced that Joel Kinnaman was cast in Season 4 of the In Treatment reboot at HBO.
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Joel Kinnaman reprised his role as Ed Baldwin in Season 2 of For All Mankind, which aired in 2021, and is confirmed to be in the third season of the Apple TV+ series.
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Joel Kinnaman grew up with the condition of pectus excavatum, with a caved-in appearance of the chest.
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Joel Kinnaman underwent surgery prior to the filming of Altered Carbon, inserting two metal bars to push the sternum outward in order to correct the deformity.
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Joel Kinnaman has been a fan of his hometown football club Hammarby IF from an early age.
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Joel Kinnaman was married to Swedish tattoo artist Cleo Wattenstrom from 2015 to 2018.
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Joel Kinnaman subsequently began a relationship with Swedish-Australian model Kelly Gale in early 2019.
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On 6 August 2021, Joel Kinnaman filed and was granted a temporary restraining order against his ex Gabriella Magnusson, who he alleged was threatening him in an attempt to extort him after they had been in a brief romantic relationship in late 2018.