Melinda Kinnaman

Melinda Kinnaman
Melinda Kinnaman at the 2013 Guldbagge Award.
Born
Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman

(1971-11-09) 9 November 1971 (age 53)
Stockholm, Sweden
NationalitySwedish and American
OccupationActress
Years active1985–present
RelativesJoel Kinnaman (half-brother)

Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman (born 9 November 1971) is a Swedish-American actress.

Early life

Kinnaman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to American parents Dee and Steve Kinnaman.[1] Her paternal half-brother Joel Kinnaman is also an actor.

Career

By age thirteen, she made her acting debut, portraying the tomboy Saga in the acclaimed 1985 movie My Life as a Dog, directed by Lasse Hallström, for which she won Best Young Actress in A Foreign Film at the 9th Youth in Film Awards. She was educated at the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm from 1991 to 1994. Since then she has been part of the ensemble at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and had major parts in many classics, such as Iphigenia in Iphigenia at Aulis (1995), Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew (1997), Anja in The Cherry Orchard (1997), Estelle in Sartre's No Exit (2000), Marie in Woyzeck (2003), Jessica in The Merchant of Venice (2004) and Martirio in The House of Bernarda Alba (2008). In 2011, she played the violinist in Duet for One.[2]

She has also developed acrobatics skills and worked with theatre interwoven with contemporary circus at the Royal Dramatic Theatre with Robert Lepage's magical production of August Strindberg's A Dream Play and advanced even more in the lead of a brave acrobatic staging of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (2002).[3][4]

She followed up on that for a few years guest performing in Copenhagen in Shakespeare's The Tempest and HC Andersen's The Little Mermaid. She has participated in productions of modern dance in Stockholm.[citation needed]

On stage, screen and television she has worked in major parts with many prominent personalities, such as Bo Widerberg in The Serpents Way (1986), August Strindberg's The Father and Hedvig in Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck (1989), Hans Alfredson in Time of the Wolf (1988), Colin Nutley in British-Swedish TV series The Way Home (1989), Ingmar Bergman and Daniel Bergman in Sunday's Children (1992), as well as with contemporary dramatists such as Lars Norén and Henning Mankell. In 1999, she shared the title role in the international film Mary, Mother of Jesus with Pernilla August.[citation needed]

From 2015–2017, she played the leading role of Inger Johanne Vik, a criminal psychologist and profiler, in the Swedish television psychological thriller series Modus.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ Wennersten, Lina (6 August 2011). "Kroppslig kamp". Svenska Dagbladet. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Dramaten 1 August 2011, "Reine Brynolfsson och Melinda Kinnaman i Duett för en" (Royal Dramatic Theatre, Production info. Swedish)". August 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Shakespearesällskapet 2010, "Melinda Kinnaman spelade Julia i cirkusmiljö" (Swedish Shakespeare Society: Swedish)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 June 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2018.
  4. ^ "Nordic Noir and Beyond December 8, 2016, "Modus plus Interview with Star Melinda Kinnaman"". Archived from the original on 5 January 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Modus - BBC Four". Archived from the original on 16 December 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  6. ^ Wollaston, Sam (28 November 2016). "Modus review – pacy and gripping, like a high-end Volvo". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  7. ^ Nordic Noir and Beyond 8 December 2016, "Modus plus Interview with Star Melinda Kinnaman" Archived 5 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine nordicnoir.tv