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Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-native actor born on 25 November 1979. Joel was born in Stockholm and has a versatile ancestry. He was named Chares Joel Nordstrom Kinnaman by his parents at birth. Although he isa native of Sweden and was raised in the city of Stockholm, Joel holds dual citizenship- American and Swedish due to his parents. Kinnaman has a rich ancestry of an English, German, Scottish and Irish descent from his father’s side. Joel’s dad, Steve Kinnaman was an American soldier sent to Vietnam. He later left the army from its base in Bangkok. On the other side, Joel’smom was a descendant of the immigrant Ukrainian Jews who had moved to Sweden. By profession, she was a therapist. Joel had a big family with five sibling sisters.

In various interviews, he admits that they are a large family of 25 and he even has a bunch of different mothers. His step-mothers are on good terms with his birth mom and he calls his family “a big hippie family!”One of his half-sisters is the famous Swedish actress, Melinda Kinnaman. Since his childhood itself, the actor could speak in both Swedish and English languages. In Sweden, he studied in an American school which hosted an extensive range of versatile kids ranging from diplomat millionaires to the ghetto children. Joel fell somewhere in the middle of that category with his well-off parents and his American ancestry. During High School, Joel even spent a year as a foreign exchange student in Texas. The actor is currently based in Los-Angeles, California, United States of America. Joel is best known for his roles in a series of Swedish films including the most prominent “Easy Money” and “Johan Falk”.Kinnaman is also recognized for his central part in the 2014 released remake of the classic “ Robocop Click to look into! >> Read More... ” and his performance in the TV series “House of Cards.” He also played the role of a detective on the AMC show “The Killing” which was widely appreciated. His next most anticipated upcoming project is his role in the DC Comics movie “ Suicide Squad Click to look into! >> Read More... ”.

Joel kicked off his acting career in 2002 by joining the Swedish Academic School of Drama located in Malmo, Sweden. Most of his friends were applying to acting school and he felt that he would do well in the field as well, hence, applied. While joining the college, he simultaneously appeared in the movie “The Invisible” which was a thriller. After completing his graduation in 2007, Kinnaman appeared in a stage revision of “Crime and Punishment” and immediately garnered the attention of the Swedish media. Following his theater stint, he portrayed 9 different characters within a span of fourteen months in nine Swedish films.These included the movie “Arn: The Knight Templar” released in 2007 and its sequel released in 2008.However, his breakthrough was the Swedish movie “I skuggan av Varmen” released in 2009. His rise to success started with his portrayal of the character Frank Wagner in the “Johan Falk” film series of six movies. For this chain of pictures, he was nominated for the GuldBagge Award for Best Supporting Actor. Later, he was cast in the movie “Easy Money” which released in 2010 and it proved to be crucial in his career. “Easy Money” was the film that won him the GuldBagge Award for the “Best Actor” along with getting him worldwide movie-attention.

The movie was the first in a triad of films and went on to become the highest-grossing motion picture series in Swedish history. Following this, Joel appointed an eminent agent in the United States who, at the time, was also the agent to Johnny Depp An iconic award-winning-actor that doesn’t watches >> Read More... . His attempt at a career in the Hollywood industry was successful as he was soon after announced as the lead actor in the movie “ The Darkest Hour Click to look into! >> Read More... ” to be released in 2011. Kinnaman was also in the race to being the star of the famous movie series “ Thor Click to look into! >> Read More... ” and later, “Mad Max: Fury Road”. He lost the roles to Chris Hemsworth A “heartthrob” and total madness of women from “do >> Read More... and Tom Hardy Starring in everything from Peaky Blinders to The >> Read More... respectively, but, only by inches. However, the news was enough to garner him ideal publicity in the industry. It turned him into one of the most chatted about actors at the time. Immediately after his movie, in April 2011, he was cast in the AMC TV series “The Killing” as Detective Stephen Holder. For his Hollywood debut, Joel was again approached by his Swedish movie “Easy Money” director, Daniel Espinosa Daniel Jorge Espinosa famously known as Daniel Esp >> Read More... . He was hired for a sub-ordinate role in the film “The Safe House” which starred Ryan Reynolds He is one of the dashing debonair of Hollywood. He >> Read More... . Later in 2012, Joel was confirmed for the central character in the re-creation of the 1987 classic “Robocop”. The film released two years later in 2014.

Joel’s latest project is under director David Ayer David Ayer is an America based director, producer >> Read More... in the Warner Bros and DC Comics produced “Suicide Squad”. The role is much anticipated by his fans. In personal life, Joel dated multiple women but is now happily married. He recently revealed that he had married his girlfriend, Cleo Wattenstrom. He was dating the tattoo artist from 2014 and eventually got married to her as well. Before Cleo, he dated the X-Men famed Olivia Munn Olivia Munn is an American actress-cum-model. She >> Read More... for a couple years.  

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