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Lena Olin

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Lena Olin
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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. She was born in Stockholm, to actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin, who appeared 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, Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg. She made her international debut as a movie actress in After the Rehearsal (1984) (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, 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's "Sydney Bristow" in the series Alias (2001). Olin received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
BornMarch 22, 1955
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Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Logan Lerman, Louis Ozawa, Jerrika Hinton, Kate Mulvany, and Tiffany Boone in Hunters (2020)
Gary Oldman and Lena Olin in Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Lena Olin in Hunters (2020)
Lena Olin in Hunters (2020)
Lena Olin in Hunters (2020)
Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Daniel Day-Lewis and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Juliette Binoche, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Lena Olin in Riviera (2017)

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Lena Olin in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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  • Sabina
  • 1988
Jennifer Garner in Alias (2001)
Alias
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TV Series
  • Irina Derevko
Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche in Chocolat (2000)
Chocolat
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  • Josephine Muscat
  • 2000
Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)
Romeo Is Bleeding
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  • Mona Demarkov
  • 1993

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  • Lena Olin, Carol Kane, Logan Lerman, Louis Ozawa, Jerrika Hinton, Kate Mulvany, and Tiffany Boone in Hunters (2020)
    Hunters
  • Lena Olin and Tora Hallström in Hilma (2022)
    Hilma
  • Se upp för Jönssonligan (2020)
    Se upp för Jönssonligan
  • Julia Stiles in Riviera (2017)
    Riviera
  • Aaron Paul in Adam (2020)
    Adam
  • Lena Olin and Bruce Dern in The Artist's Wife (2019)
    The Artist's Wife
  • Bergmans Reliquarium (2018)
    Bergmans Reliquarium
  • Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, and Jonathan Groff in Mindhunter (2017)
    Mindhunter
  • Lena Olin, Eric Roberts, Jake Carpenter, Joseph D'Onofrio, Daniel O'Shea, Ricardo Cordero, James MacPherson, Vanessa Calderón, Geovanni Gopradi, Dawna Lee Heising, and Trevor Coppola in Empire of the Heart (2017)
    Empire of the Heart
  • Maya Dardel (2017)
    Maya Dardel
  • Spark (2016)
    Spark
  • Bobby Cannavale in Vinyl (2016)
    Vinyl
  • Josephine Bornebusch and Greg Poehler in Welcome to Sweden (2014)
    Welcome to Sweden
  • Lena Olin, Rosamund Pike, Dean Winters, and Jennifer Lawrence in The Devil You Know (2013)
    The Devil You Know
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    • March 22, 1955
    • Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden
    • Lasse HallströmMarch 18, 1994 - present (1 child)
    • Tora Hallström
    • Britta Holmberg
  • Other works
    August Strindberg's "A Dream Play" at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden (part: Agnes; Indra's Daughter).
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    • 6 Articles
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    Moved permanently to the US in 1995 together with husband Lasse Hallström (as both their international careers developed separately) and the couple have since then been resident in Bedford, New York. However, they still have their summer house in Sweden (located in the Swedish province of Skåne) where the family spend their summer holidays as well as an apartment in Stockholm.
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    "I want to show that from the negative, when you dare to see it, the positive is born, because there is the root to the good. I have inside myself, for example, a sharp aggression. But if you remove it, I lose my creativity. I have a great insecurity, but if you remove it, I also lose my sensitivity. Good theater is the theater that can make it a little attractive, a bit cool, to have these dark inner depths. You must be a bit afraid of them. I have a big need of spending time being alone, just to fear these dark sides. We must have secrets. That's why I almost never agree, or rarely, to really personal interviews: you must have large pools, untouched inside yourself." (on acting, theater and her interest in playing dark women roles on stage and in films)

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