Joel Kinnaman

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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.

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2026
The Beast
Movie Agent Taft
2026
High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam
TV show John Nixon
2026
Detective Hole
TV show Tom Waaler
2026
Placeholder
Movie Self
2026
Imperfect Women
TV show Robert
2025
The American Revolution
TV show Samuel Seabury / Nils Collin / Thomas Hutchinson (voice)
2025
Icefall
Movie Harlan
2024
The Silent Hour
Movie Frank Shaw
2023
Silent Night
Movie Brian Godlock
2023
Sympathy for the Devil
Movie The Driver
2022
Peacemaker
TV show Colonel Rick Flag Jr. (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
The Suicide Squad
Movie Colonel Rick Flag
2021
Brothers by Blood
Movie Michael
2020
The Secrets We Keep
Movie Thomas
2019
For All Mankind
TV show Ed Baldwin
2019
The Informer
Movie Pete Koslow