Joel Kinnaman

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman (born 25 November 1979) is a Swedish-American actor who first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. Kinnaman is known internationally for his television roles as Detective Stephen Holder in AMC’s The Killing, Takeshi Kovacs in the first season of Altered Carbon, and Governor Will Conway in the U.S. version of House of Cards. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the Warner Bros. film adaptations of the DC Comics anti-hero team Suicide Squad (2016), as well as James Gunn’s 2021 sequel/soft reboot, The Suicide Squad. Since 2019, he has starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.

Joel Kinnaman Movies

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The Suicide Squad (2021)

Action Adventure Comedy

Locked up in Belle Reve and facing grim futures, a ragtag crew of expendable super-villains, including Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, and Peacemaker, get conscripted into a black-ops mission nobody is supposed...

Score 7.5

Knight of Cups (2015)

Drama Romance

A successful Hollywood screenwriter has everything the industry promises and nothing that actually satisfies. Rick drifts through Los Angeles like a man sleepwalking through his own biography, moving from one...

Score 5.7

Child 44 (2015)

Crime Thriller

In Stalin's Soviet Union, a disgraced secret police officer finds himself assigned to investigate ritualistic murders of children across the countryside. As the body count rises, he uncovers an impossible...

Score 6.3

Safe House (2012)

Action Thriller

Tobin Frost spent ten years building a legend as a CIA fugitive, and the agency has never quite known what to do with him. When he finally surfaces and ends...

Score 6.5

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Crime Mystery Thriller

A disgraced journalist accepts a cold case that should have stayed cold: a wealthy old man wants to know what happened to his niece four decades ago. The investigation pairs...

Score 7.4

Easy Money (2010)

Crime Drama Thriller

Stockholm's underworld collides when an ambitious young man begins trafficking drugs to fund his carefully constructed facade of wealth and respectability. His entry into the criminal economy brings him into...

Score 6.4

Joel Kinnaman TV Shows

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Detective Hole (2026)

Crime Mystery

Oslo is shaken by a string of killings that share an unsettling, deliberate logic, the kind that points toward something organized and deeply embedded. Harry Hole, a brilliant but self-destructive...

Score 7.3

Imperfect Women (2026)

Crime Drama Mystery

Three women have kept each other's secrets for decades. When one of them turns up dead, the investigation doesn't just pursue a killer. It peels back the layers of a...

Score 6.2

For All Mankind (2019)

Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy War & Politics

What if the Soviets had reached the moon first? That single question reshapes everything in this alternate-history drama, where the space race never ended and NASA became the defining institution...

Score 7.7

The Killing (2011)

Crime Drama Mystery

Adapted from the acclaimed Danish series Forbrydelsen, this rain-soaked Seattle procedural puts homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder at the center of crimes that refuse to stay contained. Each...

Score 7.8

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the highest-rated movies starring Joel Kinnaman? +

According to aggregate user scores, the absolute best titles starring Joel Kinnaman are The Suicide Squad, Knight of Cups, and Child 44.

How many movies and TV shows has Joel Kinnaman starred in? +

Our database currently features a comprehensive filmography of 10 titles starring Joel Kinnaman, ranging from their earliest roles to the newest releases.

Are the movies starring Joel Kinnaman worth watching? +

Yes! The overall filmography starring Joel Kinnaman maintains a strong average user rating of 6.9 out of 10 across all tracked titles.