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Lena Olin

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Age
57
Birthday
Mar. 22nd, 1955
Born in
Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
Height
5' 11"

Lena Olin's Main TV Roles

Show Character(s)
Alias TV Show
Alias
 

Main Movie Roles

2010 - Remember Me
2008 - The Reader
2007 - Awake
2005 - Casanova
2003 - The United States Of Leland
2003 - Hollywood Homicide
2002 - Darkness
2002 - Queen of the Damned
2000 - Chocolat
1999 - Mystery Men
1999 - The Ninth Gate
1998 - Polish Wedding
1998 - Hamilton
1995 - Lumière et compagnie
1993 - Mr. Jones
1988 - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1976 - Ansikte mot ansikte

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB


BIOGRAPHY:

Swedish-born Lena Olin already had a successful career as an actress before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and was directed by Ingmar Bergman. Her father. Stig Olin, was also an actor and played in six of Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family." As a young actress, she played in the great classics of William Shakespeare (I), Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. She made her international debut as a movie actress in Efter repetitionen (1984) (TV) (aka "After the Rehearsal"), directed by Bergman. In western Europe she became well known in the political movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) as Sabina, in a story about the Prague spring (1968). After coming to the US, she played mostly distinguished, exotic temptresses, intelligent women and crude vamps. Bergman had developed Lena's artistic gift to play different human emotions and express them in a subtle way. Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa (1985), rewrote the screenplay for _Havana (1990)_ especially for her. This explains why this film recalls associations with the classic Casablanca (1942), starring Ingrid Bergman (I), also from Sweden. Olin received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Enemies: A Love Story (1989). She went on to have a choice role in Chocolat (2000), which received a Best Picture Oscar nomination, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. She made a move to the smaller screen and played the role for one season as the deliciously evil Irina Derevko, the mother to Jennifer Garner (I)'s Sydney Bristow in the series "Alias" (2001). Olin received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.


TRIVIA:
  • Sister of singer 'Mats Olin' (qv).
  • National Theatre Academy; Stockholm, Sweden (1976-79).
  • Has a son 'F. Auguste Rahmberg' (qv) (b. 1986) with former boyfriend 'Örjan Ramberg' (qv). Has a daughter 'Tora Hallstrom' (qv) (b. 1995) with husband 'Lasse Hallström' (qv).
  • Failed twice - both times in the very last test - two years in a row before she was accepted the third time at Sweden's prestigious National Theatre Academy (Teaterhögskolan) in 1976.
  • Lena studied the course of Classic Humanities with Latin as her major language in the Swedish equivalent to senior high school/upper secondary education (1971-74). Later she also extended her course for half a year with the subjects of Maths, Physics and Chemistry as it was necessary for her medicine studies at university.
  • Daughter of actor 'Stig Olin' (qv) and actress 'Britta Holmberg' (qv).
  • Had son Auguste with Swedish actor and Royal Dramatic Theatre colleague 'Örjan Ramberg' (qv).
  • Has a fine singing voice. Recorded, a.o., Swedish song "Människors glädje" (written and composed by her father 'Stig Olin' (qv)) and Swedish country/folk tune "Sommarbrevet (Jag skrev ett brev)" in the 1970s (Polar Music, Sweden).

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