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Lena Olin
Birth at
22 March 1955
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin is an actress born on March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father Stig Olin is also an actor, her mother Britta Holmberg is a theater actress. As the daughter of two actors, young Miss Olin began to take an interest in drama early on. After graduation, the girl briefly worked as a hospital nurse and soon became a substitute teacher. On the advice of family friend Ingmar Bergman, Lena decided to enter drama school and was the only student accepted into the Royal Drama Theatre
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin is an actress born on March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. Her father Stig Olin is also an actor, her mother Britta Holmberg is a theater actress. As the daughter of two actors, young Miss Olin began to take an interest in drama early on. After graduation, the girl briefly worked as a hospital nurse and soon became a substitute teacher. On the advice of family friend Ingmar Bergman, Lena decided to enter drama school and was the only student accepted into the Royal Drama Theatre of Stockholm, almost immediately becoming a rising star there.
In October 1974, she won the Miss Scandinavia 1975 contest in Helsinki, where she won the crown.
During the 1970s and 1980s, Olin appeared in Swedish films and some American productions, infusing life with her incredible sensitivity. In 1978, the Ingmar Bergman Prize was initiated, which she received one of the first in 1980. Ingmar was one of the judges back then. In 1989, the actress was nominated for a Golden Globe for best supporting role in a film.
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" She played a mysterious, sexually independent woman. She was also nominated for an Oscar in 1990 in the same category for her performance in Paul Mazursky.
"Enemies. The Story of Love .
Olin was noted in the thriller “Night over Manhattan”, well known for her Hollywood role in the film “Havana” by Sidney Pollack, playing there with Robert Redworth. For Best Supporting Role in a Picture
"Chocolate." The actress was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2001, in 2003 for a stunning performance of a supporting role in the series “Spy” received an Emmy nomination.
Pregnant with actor Orjan Ramberg, with whom they broke up in the late 80s, Lena gave birth to a son named Auguste Ramberg. In 1994, the actress married Lasse Hallström, in whose films she starred, and a year later their daughter Tora was born. Lena Olin currently lives in New York.