“What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.”

Swedish-American actor

Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor. He first drew attention for the 2010 Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. He later became widely known for television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in House of Cards. He also appeared as Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake and as Rick Flag in Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad. From 2019 to 2026, he starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in For All Mankind.