Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman
Kinnaman in 2014
Born	Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman (1979-11-25) 25 November 1979 (age 37) , Sweden
Residence	Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1990–present
Spouse(s)	Cleo Wattenström
Relatives	Melinda Kinnaman (half-sister)

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman (born 25 November 1979) is a Swedish-American actor, 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 as detective Stephen Holder on AMC's The Killing, and played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the film adaptation of Suicide Squad (2016), based on the DC Comics anti-hero team of the same name.

Kinnaman was born and raised in . His mother, Bitte, a therapist, is a Swedish citizen. His father, Steve Kinnaman (originally David Kinnaman), is an American who was drafted during the Vietnam War and deserted the military from his base in Bangkok. Kinnaman has both Swedish and American citizenship, because of his father's American nationality. Kinnaman's father, whose family was from the American Midwest, is of English, German, Irish, and Scottish descent, while Kinnaman's mother is Jewish (of Ukrainian Jewish descent). He has five sisters, one of whom is actress Melinda Kinnaman (his half-sister). During his childhood, Kinnaman learned two languages as he "spoke English with my dad and Swedish with my mom." Kinnaman spent a year in Texas as a high school exchange student.