Lena Olin

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Lasse Hallström and Lena Olin 2013 at the Berlinale

Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish actress and former beauty queen.

life and career

Lena Olin is the daughter of the Swedish actor couple Stig Olin and Britta Holmberg . She first appeared in classic roles at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. There she met the director Ingmar Bergman and appeared in several of his films, such as Fanny and Alexander (1982).

In 1975 she became Miss Scandinavia . In 1988 she played the role of Sabina in the American film The Unbearable Lightness of Being of Milan Kundera 's novel of the same name . For Enemies - A Love Story (1989), she received an Oscar nomination . Sydney Pollack cast it in 1990 alongside Robert Redford in Havana . In contrast to previous joint work by Redford and Pollack, however, the film was not a success.

She also had roles in Romeo Is Bleeding and Mr. Jones (both 1993) and Roman Polański's The Nine Gates . From 2002 she appeared in the successful television series Alias ​​- The Agent as a former Soviet agent and mother of the main character. She also starred in Queen of the Damned (2002) and had roles in Hollywood Cops (2003) and Casanova (2005). In the film The Reader (2008) she played the mother and later the daughter settings, which is the only one SS - massacre survived.

Lena Olin has been married to the Swedish director Lasse Hallström since 1994 , with whom she directed Chocolat (2000), Casanova and Der Hypnotiseur (2012). They have a daughter together. She has a son from a previous relationship with the Swedish theater actor Örjan Ramberg.

Filmography (selection)

Awards and nominations

Oscar

1990 nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Enemies - The Story of a Love)

British Academy Film Award

2001 nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Chocolat - One small bite is enough)

Chicago Film Critics Association Award

1995 nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Romeo Is Bleeding)

Emmy

2003 nominated: Outstanding supporting actress in a drama series (Alias ​​- Die Agentin)

European film award

2001 nominated: Audience Award for Best Actress (Chocolat - One small bite is enough)

Golden Globe Award

1989 nominated: Best Supporting Actress The unbearable lightness of being

Guldbagge

1980: Ingmar Bergman Prize

MTV Movie Award

1994 nominated: Best Action Sequence (Romeo Is Bleeding)

National Society of Film Critics Award

1989, 2nd place: Best supporting actress (The unbearable lightness of being)
1990, 2nd place: Best Supporting Actress (Enemies - The Story of a Love)

New York Film Critics Circle Award

1989: Best Supporting Actress (Enemies - A Love Story)

Satellite Award

2003 nominated: Best Supporting Actress in a Series - Drama (Alias ​​- The Agent)
2004 nominated: Best Supporting Actress in a Series - Drama (Alias ​​- The Agent)

Screen Actors Guild Award

2001 nominated: Best Acting Ensemble (Chocolat - A small bite is enough) , together with the other actors

Teen Choice Award

2005 nominated: Choice TV Parental Units (Alias ​​- Die Agentin), with Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin

Web links

Commons : Lena Olin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lena Olin on her sixtieth - her picture in the mirrors in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung