After graduating from high school, he decided to travel around the world. Prior, Kinnaman revealed that he grew up with fellow actors Alexander Skarsgård and Noomi Rapace. He spent a year in Del Valle, Texas, as a high school exchange student.
During his childhood, Kinnaman learned two languages as he "spoke English with my dad and Swedish with my mom".
He has five sisters, one of whom is actress Melinda Kinnaman (paternal half-sister). His father, whose family was from the American Midwest, is of Irish and Scottish descent whereas his mother is of maternal Ukrainian Jewish descent.
Kinnaman is a dual citizen of Sweden and the United States. His father, Steve Kinnaman (originally David Kinnaman), is an American-born Swede who was drafted during the Vietnam War and deserted the military from his base in Bangkok. His mother, Bitte (Nordström), a therapist, is a Swedish citizen.
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Since 2019, he has starred as NASA astronaut Ed Baldwin in the Apple TV+ science fiction drama series For All Mankind.Ĭharles Joel Nordström Kinnaman was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. 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. He has also played Alex Murphy in the 2014 RoboCop remake, and Rick Flag in the Warner Bros. 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. It just doesn’t make sense from the narrative outlined in the season 1 finale on top of Kinnaman not being under contract and already booked on another series.Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman ( Swedish pronunciation: born 25 November 1979 ) is a Swedish-American actor and model who first gained recognition for his roles in the Swedish film Easy Money and the Johan Falk crime series. I fully expect Altered Carbon to return for a second season to continue the story from Richard Morgan’s novels the series is based on but I also don’t expect Kinnaman to return. I think this is Kinnaman just saying all the right things and not ruling anything out or closing any doors. But I have no idea what’s going on with the second season.” “I don’t know what’s going to happen, Kinnaman told The Hollywood Reporter. “If it was a cool story, for sure,” he added when asked if he would want to continue on as Takeshi Kovacs. The fact that his Kovacs character took a new sleeve at the end of season 1 suggests Kinnaman is done too. Beyond that, Kinnaman only signed a one-year deal for Altered Carbon so the assumption was that he would only appear in the first season regardless of the show’s renewal status. Kinnaman was recently cast in the upcoming Amazon series Hannaso it would appear to be a challenge to be a series regular in two series on competing platforms. The show is waiting to hear word if it’ll be renewed for season 2, which I think will be a formality, but it looks like Kinnaman is moving forward without Altered Carbon. Jumping to the season finale, it would appear that Kinnaman is no longer in the offerings for future seasons of Altered Carbon.
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Joel Kinnaman played the lead role of Takeshi Kovacs who wakes up 300 years after he was murdered and given a new body (sleeve) and a new mission that would free him from his eternity of isolation. Many fans have questions about the fate of the characters and what happens next in the noir cyberpunk series that premiered on Feb. If you watched the first season of Altered Carbon on Netflix and walked away from the season finale with questions about how the show moves into season 2, you’re not alone. By Patrick Schmidt 5 years ago After an uncertain future based on the Altered Carbon season 1 finale, will Joel Kinnaman be returning to play the role of Takeshi Kovacs?
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