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 is een Zweeds-Amerikaanse acteur die eerst bekendheid verwierf in de Zweedse cinema voordat hij de stap zette naar internationale film- en televisierollen.
Hij staat bekend om zijn rollen als Johan 'JW' Westlund in Easy Money, Alex Murphy in RoboCop, Rick Flag in de Suicide Squad-films en Ed Baldwin in For All Mankind.
Hij speelt voornamelijk in actiethrillers, misdaadrama's en grootschalige sciencefictionprojecten voor zowel film als televisie.