Lena Olin

Biography

Born 03/22/1955

A powerful and beautiful Swedish actress in the tradition of Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann, Lena Olin first came to prominence in Sweden as a "Bergman actress," working in plays and films directed by the great Ingmar Bergman. The child of actors—her father, Stig Olin, appeared in...
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Filmography

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Awards

In 1989, received New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress

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Production Photos

Lena Olin, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

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Highlights

In 2007, Cast in the psychological thriller "Awake" with Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba
In 2005, Cast in husband Lasse Hallström's "Casanova," opposite Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller
In 2004, Starred with Kevin Spacey and Ryan Gosling in "The United States of Leland"

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Family & Companions

Orjan Ramberg: Swedish; together for five years; separated
Britta Olin: mother (Retired from acting at age 30 to raise her three children; divorced from Stig Olin)
Stig Olin: father (Appeared in films directed by Ingmar Bergman, beginning with "Hamnsted/Port of Call" (1948) and "The Seventh Seal" (1957); divorced from Britta Olin; died of natural causes June 28, 2008)

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