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Born on 22 March in Stockholm, Sweden, daughter of actor Stig Olin and actress Britta Holmberg
Appears in movie Adventures of Picasso
Appears in Ingmar Bergman's movie Fanny and Alexander
Appears in Bergman's After the Rehearsal
Son August born from her relationship with Örjan Ramberg
Appears in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Supporting Oscar nomination for her role in Enemies, a Love Story
Appears in the flop Havana
Co-stars with Richard Gere in Mr. Jones
Appears in Romeo Is Bleeding Marries film director Lasse Hallström
Daughter Tora born
Trivia:Sister of singer Mats Olin, who is almost a decade older than Lena
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b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1956
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She is the daughter of the Swedish actor Stig Olin,
who was in several Ingmar Bergman films—Crisis
(45); To Joy (49); This Can't Happen Here (50)—
and directed a few of his own. It was Bergman
who promoted the young Lena at the Stockholm
Royal Dramatic Theatre and then cast her in his
own work: she has a small role as a saleswoman in
Face to Face (75); she is a nursemaid in Fanny and Alexander (82); and she is the young actress (pregnant—as in life) in After the Rehearsal (84).
Granted those credentials, and her own beauty
and ability, it would seem natural for Olin to
become a star in English-language pictures. And
she has worked in America for over a decade,
often with great impact, without establishing herself: astounding as the sophisticate in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (88, Philip Kaufman);
nominated as supporting actress for Enemies: A
Love Story (89, Paul Mazursky); she was the
(Ingrid) Bergmanesque lead in Havana (90, Sydney Pollack), and that film's failure seems to have affected her prospects badly and a prime example of an actress being harshly treated for one wrong career move; Mr. Jones (93, Mike
Figgis); Romeo Is Bleeding (93, Peter Medak);
Night Falls on Manhattan (97, Sidney Lumet);
Polish Wedding (98, Theresa Connelly); Hamilton (98, Harald Zwart); Mystery Men (99, Kinka
Usher); The Ninth Gate (99, Roman Polanski);
Chocolat (00, Lasse Hallstrom—her husband);
Ignition (01, Yves Simoneau); Darkness (01, Jaume Balaguero); Queen of the Damned (02, Michael Rymer).
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