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Joel Kinnaman

Joel Kinnaman

6 films · 534 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20142023

Born 25 November 1979 · Stockholm, Sweden

Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman 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.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 6 films · 534 frames · top-billed in 4 · 20142023

  • Guldbagge Awards

How their films are shot

Measured across 534 frames from the 6 films we hold. This is the look of the work Joel takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 6 films we hold, 67% of their frames are night, 61% low key — the look of the work Joel takes.

Time of day

Night67%
Day24%
Interior7%

Lighting

Low key61%
Natural23%
High key12%

Shot size

Medium49%
Closeup23%
Wide19%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level77%
Low angle12%
High angle6%
Top down4%

Mood

Tense36%
Neutral34%
Ominous13%
Lonely7%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

Often with

Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 534 frames from Joel Kinnaman's 6 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.