Lena Olin
Lena Olin was born in Stockholm, Sweden on March 22nd, 1955 and is the Movie Actress. At the age of 69, Lena Olin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Lena Maria Olin (born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress.
She has been nominated for numerous acting awards, including a Golden Globe for Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and an Academy Award for Enemies, A Love Story (1989).
After the Rehearsal (1984), directed by her husband Ingmar Bergman, Chocolat (2000), Casanova (2005), and The Reader (2008) were two other well-known films in which she has appeared.
Olin appeared in the short-lived Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden as a principal cast member and a returning guest actor in the second season (and a regular guest actor in later seasons).
Early life
Olin was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 1955, the youngest of three children of actress Britta Holmberg (1921–2004) and Stig Olin (1920–2008). She studied acting at the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Sweden from 1976 to 1979.
Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1974 in Helsinki, Finland, at the age of 19.
Personal life
Olin has a son named August from a strained friendship with actor rjan Ramberg. Tora is a child of a filmmaker who has been married to filmmaker Lasse Hallström since 1992, with whom she has a daughter. They live in Bedford, New York.
Film career
Olin spent time as both a substitute teacher and a hospital nurse before becoming a professional actress. Olin appeared in classic plays by William Shakespeare and August Strindberg (1980-1994), as well as in smaller roles in several Swedish films directed by Bergman and in Swedish television's TV-Theatre Company.
In Face to Face (1976), Ingmar Bergman cast Olin. She began performing in Stockholm in Bergman's direction, and with Bergman's production of King Lear (in which Olin appeared Cordelia), she toured the world—Paris, Berlin, Washington, Moscow, and Oslo, among others. Olin's critically acclaimed stage performances in Strindberg, Margarita's Dream Play, included the leading role in In Edward Bond's Summer, Titania, and her neurotic Charlotte in Lars Norén's contemporary drama Nattvarden (The Last Supper).
Olin was one of the first recipients of the Ingmar Bergman Award, which was started in 1978 by the director himself and served as one of the two judges in 1980.
After the Rehearsal (1984), Olin's international debut in a lead role on film was in Bergman's After the Rehearsal (1984). She appeared in a small part in Fanny and Alexander, the same director's Fanny and Alexander two years ago. Olin appeared in Daniel Day-Lewis' first major role in English speaking and internationally produced film The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1989), Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate (1999), and many others.
Olin received an Academy Award for her performance in Enemies: A Love Story, in which she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi death camp. Olin appeared in Romeo Is Bleeding and portrayed what is perhaps her most ambiguous character to date; Mona Demarkov, the outrageous hit woman, remains one of the actress' most popular roles on film.
Olin and director Lasse Hallström coproduced on Chocolat (2001), which received five Academy Award nominations, and Casanova (2005).