Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman is a Swedish-American actor, born in 1979 and raised in Stockholm. He first gained recognition in Sweden for the 2010 film Easy Money, which earned him a Guldbagge Award for best actor, and for the Johan Falk crime series. International audiences know him from the AMC series The Killing, where he played Detective Stephen Holder, from Altered Carbon, in which he played Takeshi Kovacs, and from House of Cards, where he played Governor Will Conway. His film work includes the lead in the 2014 RoboCop remake and Rick Flag in the DC Comics films Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad. From 2019 to 2026 he played NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ drama For All Mankind. He trained at the Malmo Theatre Academy and worked on stage in Gothenburg.