Joel Kinnaman Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Guldbagge Award for best actor for "Snabba cash" in 2011
• Graduated from the Swedish Academic School of Drama
• Started out acting in a Swedish stage production of "Crime and Punishment
• After high school, he decided that he would work and save up money to go traveling for seven years, but after three years, he developed an interest in acting instead
• When he applied to the biggest theater school in Sweden, he didn't get in, but he did get far enough in the process that he felt he could be good at acting
• Quote: "[on "The Killing"] "It feels like the real zombie show on AMC․ It just keeps coming back from the dead․""
• Quote: "It's really boring to do a character that is only one way, that's not how we are as people․ We show a different face to everyone that we meet․ I try to put that in, even if it's not in the scripts․"
• Spent a year as an exchange student in Texas during high school