Melinda Kinnaman 2013-2015

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Melinda Kinnaman

We rush all over ourselves to create whole forums for every single Skarsgard and Swedish friend, but, years into the Dome, we (I) have failed to create a topic for Joel's sister, Melinda Kinnaman. She is one of the leading theater and movie actresses in Sweden, and has a long resume.

My apologies for being so neglectful.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Kinnaman

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

She has also developed acrobatics skills and worked with theatre interwoven with contemporary circus from the start at the Royal Dramatic Theatre 1994 with Robert Lepage's magical production of August Strindberg's A Dream Play and advanced even more in the lead of a brave staging of Romeo and Juliet 2002. She followed up on that line even for a few years guest performing in Copenhagen in Shakespeare's The Tempest and HC Andersen's The Little Mermaid. She has even participated in productions of modern dance in Stockholm.

On stage, screen and television she's been working 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 seriesThe Way Home (1989), Ingmar Bergman and Daniel Bergman in Sunday's Children (1992), as well as with contemporary dramatists such as Lars Norén andHenning Mankell. In 1999, she shared the title role in the international film Mary, Mother of Jesus with Pernilla August.




From IMDb, just the movies and TV series.

2012
Odjuret (TV movie)
Mariana Hermansson

2012 Jungfrufärd
Dora

2008 Häxdansen (TV mini-series)
Nadja

2008 En låda full av minnen (short)
Stella

2008 The Things You Cannot See (short)
Ilse

2004-2006 The Eagle (TV series)
Frida / Frida Evander
– Kodenavn: Ithaka - Del 23 (2006) … Frida
– Kodenavn: Thanatos - Del 19 (2006) … Frida
– Kodenavn: Keres - Del 16 (2005) … Frida
– Kodenavn: Keres - Del 15 (2005) … Frida
– Kodenavn: Agamemnon - Del 13 (2005) … Frida
See all 8 episodes »

2006 Klovn (TV series)
Melinda

– Hejsan Sverige (2006) … Melinda

2006 Vakuum (short)
The woman in bed

2004 Strings
Zita (voice: Swedish version)

2003 Mannen som log (TV movie)
Kristina Harderberg

2003 The Stockholm Syndrome (TV movie)
Kicki

2002 All Hell Let Loose
Minoo

1999 Mary, Mother of Jesus (TV movie)
Young Mary

1998 Personkrets 3:1 (TV movie)
Sanna

1997 Chock 4 - Liftarflickan (TV short)
Judith

1997Slutspel
Johanna

1995-1997 Radioskugga (TV series)
Vanja
– Finns det ett slut? (1997) … Vanja
– Får alla ett tecken? (1995) … Vanja

1996 Ett sorts Hades (TV movie)
Marie

1996 Ellinors bröllop
Maria

1992 Sunday's Children
Blind girl

1989 Vägen hem (TV movie)
Maja

1989 The Wild Duck (TV movie)
Hedvig Ekdahl

1988The Father (TV movie)
Bertha

1988Vargens tid
Isis

1986 The Serpent's Way
Eva as a child

1985 My Life as a Dog
Saga

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Kellman meets: Melinda Kinnaman

www.metro.se/noje/kellman-moter-melinda-kinnaman/EVHmie!tGsJI0aPEhIMo/



Melinda Kinnaman currently playing the last performances of "I do not want to die, I just do not want to live" at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Johan Larsson Kellman met the actor on juice scarp Planet Food in Östermalm market hall and talked Hollywood movie elephants and fame.


9/6/13
JOHAN KELLMAN LARSSON


Melinda Kinnaman broke through as a thirteen year old in Lasse Hallstrom's "My Life as a Dog." Since then, she has fell almost two decades at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, made U.S. television films and had personal meetings with Madonna (in conjunction with Kinnaman tested for a role on Broadway). Despite this, Melinda - just like me - totally lever when actor John Malkovich suddenly goes past us as we sit and drink fresh juices a Friday afternoon in Östermalm market hall. It says something about Melinda's person, she's distanced herself in a very liberating way.

Why we'll see you on Planet Food?

- It's nice to take a break here in the bar before being run on. And they have incredibly delicious juices.

You've been to the Royal Dramatic Theatre since 1994 - have you ever been afraid of being institutionalized?

- For their own development, it is important to do other things on the side, so you do not get too locked. But I really think that I have done. And certainly, when I worked at the private theaters, I've had much better paid than at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where I have 29 300 per month. But the main thing for me is that it is the right context.

After I saw your current performance "I do not want to die, I just do not want to live" with a friend so we had to go and drink vinfulla us because we were so afflicted.

- It has happened on two occasions that people have fainted during this show. At one point, I noticed how a woman started moving towards the exit and so I stopped. When she came to the door at the edge of the stage so she sank down. The theme of self-destructive behavior and anxiety, as Ann Heberlein cover in the show, is pretty universal, so there are probably many who recognize themselves.

When you started your career, who looked up to you - who would you be?

- I worked early with Pernilla August and has continued to do roles with her through the years. We also have a close private relationship, she was out to lunch at my house yesterday. Roy has always been a big inspiration.

You have through the years worked with the cream of the Swedish film, Bo Widerberg, Lasse Hallström and Hans Alfredson. What has it meant?

- It's true, I almost felled all elephants (laughs). I have no idea what my life would have been like otherwise. Most of my friends are in the industry. Even the men I have been in relationship with, I have met through work. Ingemar Bergman worked I do not, but I knew him.

How did you get recognized for your role as Saga in "My Life as a Dog"?

- Not very. I was never Melinda "Saga" Kinnaman. There was no Ronja-roll that way.

You told me in the podcast yard that you do not dream of Hollywood - to me it seems incomprehensible.

- I have occasionally met with American producers, but never very comfortable in those situations. My brother Joel is better at that. In addition to being incredibly talented and looks great, he is extremely socially gifted. He summarizes how to charm a Hollywood producer over lunch. We have very different kinds of confidence there.

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posted by ohva
9/2/2013

"I am not afraid to be forgotten"

www.fokus.se/2012/12/jag-ar-inte-radd-for-att-bli-bortglomd/

Fokus.SE
Text: Martin Röshammar
Photo: Angelica Zander
December 7, 2012



Lunch

Actor and freediver Melinda Kinnaman do just as well as children's theater oglamourös Hollywood movie.

In the sports world talks about small margins, but the well-worn cliché might as well be used by the actor. As Melinda Kinnaman. She played Alice in Dramatic set of "Approaches" in 1998 and Patrick Marber, who wrote the original screenplay for "Closer" wanted her to Broadway the following year.With Madonna on stage.

It led to a strange encounter with the superstar-in London, where the conversation was about Melinda's family, zodiac sign, and on how to become when you get drunk. Madonna thanked him and said, "See you soon."

But five days later, Madonna pulled out of the project, but her prominence, quickly fizzled out.

Now is the autumn of 2012 and Melinda Kinna-one is left on the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she has been employed since 1994. When we meet, it is less than two weeks left until the premiere of the monologue "I do not want to die, I just do not want to live," dramatization of Ann Heberleins self-disclosure and controversial book about living with bipolar disorder type 2.

A few days earlier I saw one of several rehearsals with audiences and it's an emotional roller-ochdalbanetur be drawn with in. It is intrusive, personal, direct and nasty, theater that requires total concentration of both Melinda Kinnaman and the audience.

There and then, it is easy to understand her explanation of what it was that got her hooked on acting from the beginning - a height presence and a mixture of playfulness and an enormous seriously.

- I have made my own Ann, I'm not trying to play her. She has been clear that we will be free and disrespectful, says Melinda Kinnaman.

On 12 september would "Town Bloody Hall" premiered. But the set had to be canceled at short notice when a director Jenny Andreasson's closest friends killed himself. She was bipolar. When did drama manager Marie-Louise Ekman to Melinda Kinnaman would do a monologue. "I'd like to see you in something very different, kind ugly guy." Actress had just said no to Lars Norén-play "As the leaves in Vallombrosa" where she would play a 24-year-old who just finished drama school. Melinda Kinnaman turned 41 on November 9.

- It's the only way I can influence at. I know I look young, and often play younger. Marie-Louise thought it was cool and good that I declined. In the end I got stuck on this monologue.

In the work, "I do not want to die, I just do not want to live", she has met many people who are living with a diagnosis, bipolar disorder type 2. Two of them have been and looked at rehearsals. They recognized themselves and thought it was creepy. But good. Also two consultant at Bup, child and adolescent psychiatry, working with bipolar and psychotic adolescents, was taken by what they saw.

Initially, the subject was so important to Melinda Kinnaman that it almost became like a lecture. But Ann Heberlein took her out of the thinking: "The difficulty with this disease is that it is a curse, the hard part is that it also is a blessing."

- The director Sunil Munshi has been clear all along. We'll do a play about a fight. It was good, it can be difficult when you have too much respect for a subject, says Melinda Kinnaman.

Some foreign dreams she wears not on, but of course, "would fall into the batter directly, it would be really exciting".

- But I have absolutely no desire to go to the U.S. and go to a lot of auditions and start from scratch. Not when I feel I can do exciting stuff here. It can be just as rewarding to play as children's theater to do two days in a big film, says Melinda Kinnaman who thrive on Dramatic despite "very poor pay,« 27 500 per month.

- The compensation of, not quite, that we have a lot of time, leisure. I've never been worried or nervous about my career. It has been easy to dare to take time off and work out and travel or work in Copenhagen. I need not be afraid of being forgotten. But you must ensure that you use it, so the world does not become too small, to identify too much with the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Christmas and New Year's, she and the family to spend in Costa Rica where her half-brother, actor colleague Joel Kinnaman, has rented a house.

Climber, freediver and walk-lover Kinnaman is both American and Swedish citizen but did not vote in the U.S. elections. This time around, either.

- I would not think of not voting in Sweden. But I think it's because it feels a little unreal. I have never lived there. My family is living there. And my ex. So I have strong ties to the U.S.. I think I should vote, but it's a kind of laziness.

Facts | Fish at BAR
Invited to lunch: Melinda Kinnaman.

Current : With the monologue "I do not want to die, I just do not want to live" on the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Ate and drank : Baked cod with pak choi, ginger, and soy dressing. The water.

Invited to lunch: Martin Röshammar who also chose the baked cod and drank water.

Where: BAR in Stockholm.

Photographed: Angelica Zander.

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

8/9/13

sabermom wrote: Aww, Joel's going to be an uncle. Melinda was on Nyhetsmorgon this morning
(http://www.tv4.se/nyhetsmorgon/klipp/dagens-sommarg%C3%A4st-%C3%A4r-melinda-kinnaman-2414760)
- she's quite pregnant and looks fantastic.

Video description:
"She made her debut at 13 years old in My Life as a Dog and today is one of our greatest actors. In the dramatization of Ann Heberlein's autobiographical book I Don't Want to Die, I Just Don't Want to Live, she's touched both audiences and critics with her interpretation of a bipolar woman's spiritual struggle for life. She discusses the monologue that plays again at Dramaten on August 30 and how she feels about soon becoming a mother for the first time."

Link to Video:

www.tv4play.se/program/nyhetsmorgon?video_id=2414760&utm_medium=sharing&utm_source=permalink&utm_campaign=tv4play.se

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Physical fight

An article about Melinda Kinnaman, Joel's older sister, I think she's in her early 40's now, a famous Swedish actress. This is google translate, and be aware it messes up male/female pronoun references all the time. I tried to spot and correct.



August 7, 2011 at 00:30, updated: 7 August 2011 at 13:18

Melinda Kinnaman She has climbed, danced and swung in sheets in front of audience. Now she plays a critically ill violinist who goes into therapy. Duet for one, the play which opens at the Royal Dramatic Theatre on August 21, has led her to remember the fear she felt when she suffered a brain hemorrhage.

It is the first day after the holiday and she is sitting in her box and read the play with a soufflé. Some lines have faded over the summer and Melinda Kinnaman eyes closed, and like to write with her index finger in the air when she's looking for a lost word. The legs, she has placed in sharp angles in different directions, one towards the wall and the second against the coffee table. It can only be convenient for someone who is very agile and Melinda Kinnaman is one such person.

She was 30 years old when she started practicing circus arts for the female lead in Romeo and Juliet. The show - a collaboration between the Royal Dramatic Theatre and Circus around - got Melinda Kinnaman swinging on trapezes, climb ropes high above the stage and perform all sorts of acrobatic exercises. In the 2000s, she has done so much physical theater (last year she played an emphasis Act repealing Ariel in the Little Storm) that she began to long for a role in a pure relationship.

Maybe heard theater god or Marie-Louise Ekman her prayer for me when she was offered the role of Stephanie Wilson, a MS violinist who goes into therapy with Dr. Feldmann (Reine Brynolfsson). She can no longer play music, and suffering from suicidal thoughts, but her sharp tongue has not lost its sharpness.

It's a fantastic role! She is rapping in her jaws. And I have to work physically but in a completely different way. Now it's about shaking and small business constraints.

To understand the disease, physical and psychological consequences have Melinda Kinnaman met with counselors in MS care and people suffering from the disease, including Louise Hoffsten.

She has also been looking among her own memories and the thought made ​​her way back to the U.S., as her parents came from. At the mirror in the barn sits a family where Melinda Kinnaman is only a year old. At the back is Steve, father, with long, blond hair and serious eyes. He deserted from the Vietnam War, fled to Laos and met Dee. She is also in the picture, in big glasses and framed by thick dark hair. Dee was a teacher and went to Laos to teach English but got pregnant and ended up in Sweden, the only country that received such as her husband, Vietnamdesertörer. Together, they have gained an old-fashioned house in Saltjö-Boo, no hot water and toilet. They study Swedish for immigrants, has had her daughter Melinda, and now they are on a visit to the United States and grandmother Rosalie keeps one hand on her little granddaughter.

Rosalie had MS when she was 30 years and eventually became dependent on her Permobil. When Melinda was visiting, and so did she and her parents at least once a year, she was sitting in her grandmother's lap and together they drove around the garden and said hello to all the flowers.

-She had a raw and brutal humor, she could make jokes at her own expense, and it made certain that her illness was easier to manage the environment. But she hid enough behind the humor.

When Rosalie was 56 years took her own life. Melinda was 7 years old then and today ensures that she never had time to be an adult along with her grandmother.

-She was a Republican, quite religious, and probably had an idea that you would not receive help. She could not be so dependent on others as she was.

Rehearsals have been emotionally overwhelming and Melinda Kinnaman has cried several times. The play has also made ​​her remember her own illness. When she was 25 years old and in the midst of several different theater she suffered a stroke that struck without warning. One vessel broke and it began to roar in the right part of the body.

-That the fear when you can not control your body ... I tried not to go too far into that feeling, although I am not willing or able to shut it down. It was during this time that I realized what rich network of family and friends I have, as I discovered how lonely it still is when you get sick. For even if the other is there, it's just me it happens.

She was lucky. The symptoms went back to themselves and the planned operation could be set. But when she is tired or drawn, it happens remains to that rushing feeling sits in the right facial area, as a reminder that nothing is obvious.

On paper sees her career so simple. Melinda Kinnaman has struggled to beco
me an actor, she could not even dream of theater and film life before she was in the midst of it. That does not mean that career choice was a foregone conclusion. On the contrary. Nothing suggested that she would become an actor and still only it was so.

One morning when she was 13 she read aloud from a newspaper ad at the breakfast table. They searched a teenage girl to a movie role and would hold an audition, whereupon dad Steve asked if she wanted to go there.

'I said no and I went to the bathroom to brush his teeth. I remember this so clearly, how I started thinking "why not?" The only reason not to go there would be cowardice, the thought that I would not do. So when I stood at the sink I had decided to try, though I had never been particularly interested in acting before. If dad had not asked I would probably never come up with the idea and then I had probably never been in this profession, says Melinda Kinnaman.

In sheer defiance of her own lack of self-esteem, she conquered a role in Lasse Hallström's My Life as a Dog, and it followed the involvement of both Bo Widerberg as Hasse Alfredsson's films. More than acting, it was the very atmosphere of the films that made ​​her continued, the feeling that all go up in a community and feel that you are doing something meaningful together.

-Film and theater can be so seductive. Life may be a simplified view, by getting further into anything that feels important.

She compares the religious sects, or with politically driven guerrilla groups, the outside world fades and the common belief becomes a buzz. Seductive and devouring. Melinda Kinnaman quote her character: "The music is not my work, it's not even a way of life - that's where I live." She has seen colleagues who have been consumed by her profession and she herself has allowed herself to be with, if than temporary. When she starred in Lars Norén's play personae 3:1, which dealt with social exclusion, were all so intensely in the work that contact with the outside world was suffering. Melinda Kinna's then-husband Lars Demian said, half seriously, that it should start a support group for Persons team's relatives and several of the participants differed in fact in connection with the tour, however, Lars and Melinda.

The buzz is on one side of the work. On the other hand, there is doubt, that wavering confidence as Melinda Kinnaman decided to resist even as a 13-year-old. Now she sits in her dressing room at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and although there is defiance, which is visible in her eyes, there are doubts also remain. We're talking about a replica of Duet for one. The MS violinist Stephanie Wilson has sold her violin and concluded that she never had any real artist. "I was a fraud and all went on," she says to her therapist, played by Reine Brynolfsson.

-Of course I recognize that feeling. In this profession, you are extremely vulnerable to what people think and feel about one and every time I go into a new project is the doubt there, but it is usually silenced a little when I came into work. Though it is temporary. The next time you start with something new, it is there again. The feeling of being a scam will probably follow me for life, but I've learned that you usually go to work anyway.

LINA WENNERSTEN
08-13 59 36 lina.wen
nersten @ svd.se

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Melinda Rosalie Kinnaman

Born: November 9, 1971 in Stockholm.

Lives: Midsommarkransen.

Occupation: Actor.

Family: Partner Tilman O'Donnell (dancer and choreographer), father, mother and step-mother, five siblings, including her brother JoelKinnaman, which is also an actor.

Current: Playing against Reine Brynolfsson in Tom Kempinski's Duet for one piece. Premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre 21 August.Bjorn Melander is the director.

Education: Theatre in Stockholm 1991-1994, jumped by half a year before graduation because she got a permanent position at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Movies: My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985), The Serpent's road to rock (Bo Widerberg, 1986), Wolf Time (Hans Alfredson, 1988),Sunday's Children (Daniel Bergman, 1992).

Theatre in the selection: Persons 3:1 (generator and television play in 1998), Romeo and Juliet (Elverket 2002), The Merchant of Venice (Royal Dramatic Theatre in 2004), Havfruen (Danish set of international tour, 2005-2007), House of Bernarda (Royal Dramatic Theatre2008), steel Magnolias (Vasateatern 2008).

Scared of: making speeches and doing almost never there. I'm too afraid to make a fool of me, unfortunately, but I'm working on it.

Film Favorites: There have been so many great Swedish films in recent years, as Svinalängorna, Involuntary, Miss Kiki, TV show up to fightand monkey.

Favorite Authors: Jeanette Winterson. Have read most of what she has written.

Happy to listen to: Would often have the quiet at home, but Paul Simon's Graceland again, I will always.

Exercises: Yoga, free diving and climbing.

Unknown talent: Can hold her breath for 3 minutes and 50 seconds.

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013



PLANS for his brother Joel Kinnaman do not know that his sister Melinda is planning a horror movie with him in a role. Photo: ULF Raises
His sister gives Joel a zombie role


Joel Kinnaman.



Melinda Kinnaman and Reine Brynolfsson in "Duet for one".
Melinda Kinnaman wants with her ​​brother in her new horror movie

Her little brother is a success in Hollywood.

Melinda Kinnaman not closing the door to make Joel joined in the dream factory - but first she will attract to him in a Swedish zombie film.

- He does not know it yet, she says, laughing.

A violinist suffering from multiple sclerosis, and lies down on the therapy couch with Reine Brynolfsson . It's Melinda Kinnaman's role in the critically acclaimed play "Duet for one", the latest in a long line of heavy drama roles for 39-year-old.

For this particular mission, she took the help of a Swedish rock legends.

Hoffsten advised

- I met two women who live with MS, among others, Louise Hoffsten . One can get very angry if you suffer from a disease, and I asked Louise what you do with all his anger. She said "you sing rock and roll!" (Laughs).

Kinnaman has done relatively little film and television through the years - unlike her brother Joel , 31, who hit it big in the U.S. television series "The Killing".

Joel gave applause

- It is not just me, but also because I have not received the offers I want, she says.

Are you tempted to go over and to test your luck in Hollywood?

- It tempts me not to go there and a screen test and start from scratch. But it would go something like this in my lap, I would of course think about it.

- Joel was at the premiere and stood up and clapped afterward. He and my sister were the only ones who did it (laughs).

Then Melinda reveals that she and her brother can appear in an upcoming terror roll along:

- I will do a Swedish zombie movie called "My Zombie Girlfriend." Lotta Tejler is included in it. We will try to get Joel in a tiny role as well.But he does not know it yet.

Will he play a zombie in that case?

- Yes, or someone who is assaulted by zombies, she says, smiling.

Jon Forsling

Melinda Kinnaman

Name: Melinda Kinnaman. Age: 39th Occupation: Actress. Lives: Stockholm. Income: 177 061 SEK (year 2010). Family:Cohabitation. Five siblings. Current: In the play "Duet for one" against Reine Brynolfsson, which premiered at the Royal Dramatic Theatre's small stage on Sunday.

Autumn at the Royal Dramatic Theatre

"Duet for One" by Reine Brynolfsson and Melinda Kinnaman (premiered Aug. 21).

"The greedy," with Johan Rabaeus and Claes Mansson (premieres August 26)

"Two gentlemen's servants," with Morgan Alling and Mats Bergman (premieres September 3).

"Romeo and Juliet," with Magnus Ehrner and Sofia Pekkari (premiered Sept. 9)

"Death of a Salesman," with Lena Endre and Krister Henriksson (premieres September 10).

"Thieves", with Lil Terselius and Bjorn Granath (premieres Oct. 5).

"The night is today's mother", with Örjan Ramberg and Irene Lindh (premieres October 22).

"Misanthrope," by Livia Millhagen and Torkel Petersson (premieres November 19).

"Dr. Glass", with Krister Henriksson (premieres November 19).

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posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Soon dancing Melinda Kinsman again

hd.se/familj/2011/...r-melinda-kinnaman-igen/

google translate


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Melinda Kinnaman likes to challenge himself on stage. In recent years, she alternated traditional drama with both dance and circus arts. Karin Grip / SvD / SCANPIX


Family.Melinda Kinnaman has done the most you can as an actor - film, acting, dancing and acrobatics done.Currently she plays with MS violinist in the acclaimed play Duet for one. But well into the next year it will be once again a role where she can dance.

40 years old, yet she looks not a day older than 25. Melinda Kinnaman is one of those times did not appear to chew on, at least not on the outside. The inside seems well not very battered. Yet she, like all, been through a few things. One of the worse things were when she was in his 20s suffered a stroke.

- It was incredibly scary. It was an inborn error, a knot in a capillary in the brain suddenly burst, she says, but is careful to point out that she is now completely well explained.

- I've done so many studies that I know more about my brain than most. And it looks good.

Clearly it was a terrible incident that still makes itself felt at times when it gets too stressful. While it is an experience that she also had the advantage of. Not least in the role of the MS violinist Stephanie Wilson in the play Duet for one, currently playing at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

- I know how it feels to not have control over what happens. I have faced the fear.

Despite the heavy topic describes Melinda as the play is anything but gloomy and difficult.

- It contains very strong feelings. Yet, I feel refreshed right afterwards, and perhaps a bit gutted. It is good to remind yourself all you have to be grateful for in life.

In Melinda cases directed much of gratitude to one's family. In terms of just the next it will be nine in all - betrothed Tilman, a mother, a father, a stepmother and five siblings, one of which is little brother Joel Kinnaman, now a celebrated actor in Hollywood.

- It's just amazing. I am bursting with pride. We have chosen the same profession has in some ways brought us closer together. We can talk about problems and what is fun. No competition is between us. In addition, we work in completely different arenas. He has the most filmed while I almost just been to the theater.

In recent years, Melinda seasoned acting with both the circus arts and dance. The next play, The Ghost Sonata directed by Mats Ek, formerly of the Cullberg Ballet, will also contain a lot of choreography.

- There is something about both music and dance that goes straight into the emotional system. We are so happy afterward. And to be with and do Chasse-step with Ana Laguna and the other world artists, it is a favor.

Lena Wreede


Melina Kinnaman

Current: turn 40 on November 9.

Lives: In Midsommarkransen in Stockholm.

Family: fiancé Tilman O'Donnell, father, mother, stepmother and five younger siblings.

Coming Soon: Currently playing the play Duet for one, with Reine Brynolfsson at the Royal Dramatic Theatre until 10 December. Make the role of Miss The Ghost Sonata, which premieres Jan. 22 at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Career highlights: Theatre Academy 1991-1994. Fast service at the Royal Dramatic Theatre since 1994. First movie role was saying in my life as a dog 1985th Have subsequently appeared in The Serpent's path on the rock, Wolf's time, and others. On the stage, among other personae 3:1, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, House of Bernarda. Has also worked with Circus Cirkör and participated in dance production money, bears and terror at the Modern Dance Theatre in Stockholm.

About to turn 40: "The past year has been pretty tough. We have had crises in the family that we have come through and I can not elaborate on. Comparing it feels like a 40-year crisis pretty ridiculous as well. And in fact I think it will be fun to be 40. "

Celebrating: "With Friends, food and dancing. It will be great fun."

Last seen movie: He thinks he is the best, by Maria Kuhlberg. "It's about two uncles who hate each other and if a family has been exposed to much violence and abuse and how it goes back for generations. It was a fantastic movie, so strong!"

Director: I like to work with again: 'Lars Norén, Lasse Hallström, Björn Melander, Jenny Andreasson! But god, I want to work with them all again. I say yes to all. "

Worst thing I know: "When I find myself to be bigoted and prejudiced."

Makes me happy: "People make me happy."

Trainer: "Climbing, freedivers and I love to walk."

Reads: "Last I read Siege of Hassan Loo Satarvandi. It was absolutely incredible. As a slap in the face. Fuck!"

[christine73]

posted by ohva 
9/6/2013

Fully healthy despite all sick roles

Text: Eva Redvall
Publicerad 8 november 2011 6.35 Uppdaterad 8 november 2011 10.02 Published November 8 2011 6:35 Updated November 8 2011 10:02

www.sydsvenskan.se/familj/fodelsedag/article1571950/Fullt-frisk-trots-alla-sjuka-roller.html

Google Translate.



Britt Summer smiles against actress Melinda Kinnaman where she sits outside a café at Stockholms Söder. A Drunk stop. "You are beautiful!", Thunders he. And he has pretty i.
LONDON. It is last October and ten weeks ago Melinda Kinnaman could soak itself sheer critics roses for her bet in Tom Kempinski's "Duett for one" at Dramaten.

Play is about successful violinist who sees its identity crumble when she suffer ms and not longer can play. Now goes she in therapy. Six seatings with Reine Brynolf Sons Dr. Feldmann constitutes piece.

– There is a favor to working with texts Affected the big questions in life says Melinda Kinnaman while she tackles a gigantic lunch omelette.

To prepare for role has she brought instructive calls with curators, doctors, musicians and ms patients. She enjoys doing research for help that bottoming in their work. Shall she play stripper, consults she a stripper, should she play spirit contacting she ... nåja. Well.

Naturally role in "Duett for one" forced her to ponder how herself would react unless she longer could exercise her profession.

That she would become equally annihilated as play's Stephanie want she disbelieve.

– I thinks I have rich lives also outside my work. I think I could find otherwise. But it is course difficult knowing before is in the situation.

To few days before his 40 birthday can Melinda Kinnaman see back exceeding 25 years within film and theater.

It started when she was 13 with Lasse Hallströms "My life who dog" where she played it boxing boyish girl Saga. Some years later picked Bo Widerberg her up for little role in "Serpent road on rock". Widerberg became her guru, and cooperation continued with main roles in television productions of "Vildanden" and "Father".

After high and one year guest performance in care turn released Melinda finally her dreams about becoming midwife and searched to Teaterhögskolan.

Many classics has become - Strindberg Shakespeare, Chekhov, Lorca - but also Lars Noréns "personae 3:1" as she puts high on her career five-development Top. A lot theatre Family moreover but strikingly get comedies.

Ten years ago commenced she what she calls her "circus pave" with hanging in trapetser and fabric strips in Katrine Wiedemann set of "Romeo and Julia". Then followed roles in two Danish new circus conceptions - many remember her safely as the little mermaid in "Havfruen".

Melinda Kinna Mans taste for demanding physical activities also spilled over leisure. She yoga and climbs, both in mountain and on wall. And a couple years ago began she free dive, thus dive without air tanks.

Courageously, think many.

– I good at challenge my physical fears. But otherwise think I enough to I'm a fairly afraid person says herself.

And so traveling she. Far and long, especially gladly to Asia - Thailand, Burma, India, Tibet.

To USA father she also occasionally. Where there generations. In late 1990s greeted she moreover on in Hollywood for role of a young virgin Maria in "Mary, Mother of Jesus". A wonderful recording, but quite corny produktion she recalls. Shall she back there, sheep they everything entice with something more exciting.

So while her brother Joel Kinnaman begins get spin of his international career, rejoices Melinda Kinnaman access grateful tasks at Dramaten.

In our should she play Fröken in Strindberg "Ghost Sonata". . Another sick, one realizes. She becoming van now. . Cancer, ms, paralysis, MYOPIA humpback, diabetes, neuroses, psychoses ... Melinda Kinna Mans cv begins increasingly resemble a anamnesis.

– Sure it strangely? But these roles very exciting. Male will close life nucleus and vulnerability we all carry. That makes a humble.

Self feel she good, assures she despite sporadic echoes a mild brain haemorrhage fifteen years ago and a heavy 2011 with sad events in it near circuit.

– We are good at going through tough times in my family says she.

And around corner waits a hefty 40th birthday. Live Music promised.

[christine73]

posted by ohva
9/6/2013

11/17/11

www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/efter_tio?title=melinda_kinnaman_om_forestallningen_duett_for_en&videoid=2093959

Dane wrote:
ohva wrote:
I couldn't embed this video for some reason. However it's worth watching. It's a new lengthy interview with Melinda Kinnaman, and they show various of her plays and movies, and a clip on Joel. Now we need a translation.


www.tv4play.se/nyheter_och_debatt/efter_tio?title=melinda_kinnaman_om_forestallningen_duett_for_en&videoid=2093959



Well since It's a raher long interview, and I have no idea how to supply subtitles to the clip, I won't do the whole thing but just give you the highlights:

They first talk about "Mit Liv som Hund" (Lasse Hallström), and her debut in it, playing a girl who really wants to be a boy, at the age of 13. How the movie was Lasse Hallström big breakthrough, and is still considered one of the Swedish masterpieces. Melinda talks about being a childactor, but also stresses that eventhough she continued to do TV productions throughout her teens, among them 3 productions with Bo Widerberg (another Swedish gigant), she wasn't as exposed as say the children who appeared in productions based on Astrid Lindgren material, and was thus abel to still have a normal childhood, and how this has turned out to be an advantage, because these other children were forever identified with those roles.

She then talks about how she, since finishing theaterschool has done mostly theater. They talk about the very popular production of Romeo and Juliet, where she played Juliet, that she did, and how inovating it was, and thus drew in a lot of young people as well. And how she is employed at "Dramaten" (the national stage - thus the most prestigious theater), and have done many plays there.

They then talk about the play she is in currently "Duet for en" (Duet for one), and how she prepared for the roles be meeting with two real MS patients. She also reveals how she has drawn form her own grandmother (paternal), who had MS. She comitted suicide when Melinda was just 7, presumably because she couldn't deal with it anymore, having dealt with the disease for 20 years.

They then go on to talk about Joel. The Interviewer: "you have a well known brother, who is also druing quite well", "he is away a lot, in the US". Melinda "yes, he has actually been home over the summer, and have recorded 3 films in that time, so we have been seeing eachother.... oh....look (as the show clips from The Killing)" The int:" have you helped him as an actor"? Melinda " Well... partly,when he was a theatherschool, I was often there, and would watch his rehearsals. And now he can help me, if I have auditions for films or so, because Joel has the most amazing selfesteem. Aside from being smart, and handsome, he has this most amazing selfesteem, which I do not have, so he can give me a peptalk if I have an audition or something like that". The int: " maybe you inspired him, after all it was you who started acting first", Melinda: "yes, that's what he says" The int. "yes, it seemed very exiting and cool. You have said earlier that you can read with one another". Melinda: " yes, exactly, sometimes when he has done screentests for stuff in the US, he has done recordings here in Sweden, and then send them over. And then I have read with him". The int:" Will you also try your luck there. You both have dual citizenship". Melinda: "yes, exactly, I'm a Us citizen. I may travel there, partly because my husband is American, but.. no I must say I'm not really set on duing that"..."I'm so established here that I get to do very interesting projects, and if I went to the US, I would have to start all over again. And.. no... it does really tempt me".

They then talk briefly about the play that she has just started rehearsing for right now, her next project.

[christine73]

posted by ohva
9/6/2013

I can't come close to trueblue, but I did come across these images of Melinda when I was digging for photos of Stellan at last night's Paris GWDT opening. Never did find him. But these pics seem to affirm the Kinnaman clan love of wandering to obscure places--

www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/in-this-picture-taken-20-july-2007-swedish-actress-melinda-news-photo/75931482









TO GO WITH LIFESTYLE-INDIA-LADAKH-TOURISM In this picture taken 20 July 2007, Swedish actress Melinda Kinnaman pauses during her journey to the village of Rumbak, some 30kms south east of Leh. Answering the call of nature over a pit of manure with no flush water in sight and learning how to churn butter may not be everyone's idea of a great holiday. But in India's 'Little Tibet', the remote Himalayan region of Ladakh, a pioneering scheme to offer tourists the authentic tastes of mountain life is taking off -- and could hold the key to preserving a fragile ecosystem. For 35-year-old Swedish tourist Melinda Kinnaman, her stay at Padma Dolma's home in the tiny Ladakhi village of Rumbuk gave her a true break from her work back home as an actress -- a taste of a simpler, old-fashioned life. AFP PHOTO/Manpreet ROMANA (Photo credit should read MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/Getty Images)

[christine73]

posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Melinda and Dad

[christine73]

posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Melinda and Sandra, Snabba Cash II premiere, August 2012

[christine73]

posted by ohva
9/6/2013

Brilliant Kinnaman in the nude monologue

www.unt.se/kultur/teatershow/lysande-kinnaman-i-naken-monolog-1980490.aspx

GOOGLE TRANSLATE

UNT.SE
11/24/12
John Sjogren

REVIEW: My God what good Melinda Kinnaman! writes John Sjogren

If I do not want to die, I just do not want to live at the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Theater

I do not wanna die, I just do not want to live
By: Ann Heberlein, Adapted: Åsa Lindholm, Director, processing, production design and costumes: Sunil Munshi, Lighting: Emma Westerberg,

The role: Melinda Kinnaman.




Dramaten Målarsalen

Those who have seen Sunil Munshis sets at Uppsala City Theatre (most recently Lady Hutton's lover and former Hjärterhus and Fucking Seagull ) will recognize the licking and incredibly stylish setting Munshi given monologue I do not want to die, I just do not want to live at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Målarsalen is empty except for the lighting arrangements that frame the scene (right light is something Munshi always seem to work very deliberately and effectively). A microphone hanging from the ceiling, but that's all, otherwise it is only light rigs that are set design of this minimalist scenrum. A scenrum in which Melinda Kinnaman soon step into, even she as slick and stylish, with a sleek dress, high stiletto heels and blond Ann Heberlein-like wig. Then she grips the mic, and above all the audience, which she will be closer to an hour and a half long monologue does not let out of her grip.

It is a deeply impressive acting performance Kinnaman implements. For, my God, what good she is! She stands there caught in the merciless light, bare and naked as well, and completely owns the stage. It is a display of an actor to perfection mastered their expression. She whispers, shouts, sings, dances. But above all, she rips the heart out of the body, hold it up to the audience and says, disclosure and damn, how it is to live with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder type 2. She talks about the near-annihilation anxiety, hypomanin, suicidal thoughts, the constant bad conscience, especially against children. She rattles off the names of all the antidepressants she is forced to push themselves and crying in despair to a God who refuses to answer.

The text is a dramatization of Ann Heberleins acclaimed book, which has already been in theater including Gothenburg and Uppsala (with Maria Sundbom in the role). Here Heberleins text, Åsa Lindholm's dramatization, become a performance impossible to defend oneself against, forcing the viewer to practice empathic empathy, which of course good theater almost always do. But it is also an idea to reflect and recognize themselves in. A portrayal of how insanely difficult it can be to get through this somewhat unreasonable life.