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      Born 1956                             Actress




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L e n a  O l i n

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Publicity Shot (2000s)

    b. Stockholm, Sweden, 1956

      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 StockholmRoyal Dramatic Theatre and then cast her in hisown work: she has a small role as a saleswoman inFace 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 beautyand ability, it would seem natural for Olin tobecome a star in English-language pictures. Andshe 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: ALove 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, MikeFiggis); 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, KinkaUsher); 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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