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Lena Olin - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography

Lena Olin - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Actress.

Born March 22, 1955, Stockholm, Sweden - Swedish actress.

The daughter of actors, she showed an early interest in drama and, after graduating from high school, briefly worked as a hospital nurse and a substitute teacher.

Ingmar Bergman, a family friend, advised her to go to drama school. She was the only student admitted to the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm that year, where she quickly became a rising star. In October 1974 she won the main crown at the Miss Scandinavia 1975 pageant in Helsinki.

Started appearing in Swedish films in the late 1970s, and in the late 1980s infused life and energy into several American productions with her inimitable sensibility. In 1980, she became one of the first actresses to receive the Ingmar Bergman Prize, initiated by him, which has been awarded since 1978. Bergman himself was one of two judges.

Following the ideal role of a mysterious and sexually independent woman in Phillip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 1989, she received an Oscar nomination in 1990 for that the same category in Paul Mazursky's film Enemies. Love Story "(1989).

Olin looks good in the thriller "Night Over Manhattan". Of her Hollywood roles, she starred in Sydney Pollack's film Havana (1990), in which the actress starred with Robert Redford.

In 2001 she was nominated for a BAFTA in Best Supporting Actor in Chocolate, and in 2003 received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role in the drama series The Spy.

From actor Oryan Ramberg, whose relationship ended in the late 1980s, Lena has a son, Auguste Ramberg, a film director and executive producer. In 1994, Olin married film director Lasse Hallstrom, and in 1995 they had a daughter, Thor.

Currently lives in New York.


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