Lena
Olin (born Lena Maria Jonna Olin on March 22, 1955)
is an internationally acclaimed actress. She was born
in Stockholm, Sweden as the youngest of three children.
Her father, Stig Olin was also an actor and appeared
in several of Ingmar Bergman's films. After studying
acting at the drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre
in Stockholm, Olin performed on stage classic plays
of Shakespeare and Ibsen and appeared in smaller roles
of several Swedish films directed by Bergman. It was
he who casted her for the first time, after she had
not passed her first audition because of her shyness.
Later she acted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm,
directed by Bergman.
Olin's international debut in a lead
role was in the 1984 Swedish film After the Rehearsal,
which directed by Bergman. The year before she appeared
in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. In 1988, Olin starred
opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in her first American film,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and became a well-known
and respected actress. In 1989, she earned an Academy
Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her
work in Enemies: A Love Story, in which she portrayed
the survivor of a Nazi camp.
Olin is today a prominent member of
the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she
began her career as young actress. She appears in
many different plays, from classic to contemporary.
Olin married twice. Her first spouse
was Örjan Ramberg, from whom she divorced. In
1994, she married Lasse Hallström, a film director
with whom she collaborated with in the 2000 film Chocolat.
Chocolat went on to receive five Academy Award nominations.
From 2002 to 2003, Olin appeared opposite
Jennifer Garner in her first television role on the
second season of the American television series Alias.
For her work on the series as Irina Derevko, Olin
received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding
Supporting Actress in 2003. Olin received immense
critical acclaim for her part in Alias - particularly
her chemistry with Victor Garber, who played her former
husband and sometime-enemy Jack Bristow - and was
rumored to have been offered a salary upwards of $100,000
per episode to remain part of the cast. She left the
show after her first and only season, however, to
spend more time with her family in New York.
In May 2005, Olin returned for a two-episode
appearance at the end of the show's fourth season.
The Post Gazette reports that Olin will make at least
a few appearances in the upcoming fifth season, which
premieres in September.
She currently lives in New York, New
York with her husband and two children, August and
Tora
Filmography
Casanova (2005)
The United States of Leland (2004)
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
Darkness (2002)
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Ignition (2001)
Chocolat (2000)
The Ninth Gate (1999)
Mystery Men (1999)
Hamilton (1998)
Polish Wedding (1998)
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
The Night and the Moment (1995)
Mr. Jones (1993)
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Havana (1990)
Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
S/Y Joy (1989)
Friends (1988)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
A Matter of Life and Death (1986)
Flight North (1986)
After the Rehearsal (1984).
Fanny and Alexander (1983)
One Week Bachelors (1982)
Love (1980)
The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
Face to Face (1976)
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