Lena Olin

Lena Olin Headshot

Actress

Birth Date: March 22, 1955

Age: 68 years old

Birth Place: Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

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 Bergman films during the 1940s and 50s-she gravitated to the profession in an attempt to overcome her crippling shyness, and though she failed her first audition for the Royal Dramatic Theater school, Bergman saw enough to cast her in a small role in his "Face to Face" (1976). She went on to appear in "The Adventures of Picasso" (1978) and acted for Bergman in "Fanny and Alexander" (1982). In "After the Rehearsal" (1984), she played Anna, a character written expressly for her. Her role as an actress who infuriates her director by getting pregnant while working on one of August Strindberg's plays prefigured actual events when her own pregnancy would complicate a Bergman production of Strindberg's "A Dream Play."

Credits

Andra akten

Actor
Eva
Movie
2023

Tolvslaget från Skansen

Guest
TV Show
2022

Mitt liv som Lasse Hallström

Self
TV Show
2022

Hilma

Actor
Hilma
Movie
2022

Tilde

Guest
TV Show
2021

Carina Bergfeldt

Guest
TV Show
2021

HuntersStream

Actor
The Colonel
TV Show
2020
68%

Adam

Actor
Yevgeniya
Movie
2020

The Artist's Wife

Actor
Claire Smythson
Movie
2019

Bergman revisited

Actor
TV Show
2018

Intensive Care

Actor
Margaret
Movie
2018

Bergmans Reliquarium

Actor
Movie
2018

MindhunterStream

Guest Star
Annaliese Stilman
TV Show
2017
97%

RivieraStream

Actor
Irina Clios
TV Show
2017

Tillsammans med Strömstedts

Guest
TV Show
2017

Maya Dardel

Actor
Maya
Movie
2017

Welcome to Sweden

Actor
Viveka Wiik
TV Show
2014

The Devil You Know

Actor
Kathryn Vale
Movie
2013

Night Train to Lisbon

Actor
Estefânia
Movie
2013

Home & Family

Guest
TV Show
2012

Hypnotisören - bakom kulisserna

Guest
TV Show
2012

Hypnotisören

Actor
Simone Bark
Movie
2012

Remember Me

Actor
Diane Hirsch
Movie
2010

Skavlan

Guest
TV Show
2009

The ReaderStream

Actor
Rose Mather/Ilana Mather
Movie
2008
63%

Awake

Actor
Lilith Beresford
Movie
2007

Sverige!

Guest
TV Show
2005

CasanovaStream

Actor
Andrea Bruni
Movie
2005
44%

Bang Bang Orangutang

Actor
Nina
Movie
2005

Hollywood Homicide

Actor
Ruby
Movie
2003

The United States of Leland

Actor
Marybeth Fitzgerald
Movie
2003

Queen of the Damned

Actor
Maharet
Movie
2002

Ignition

Actor
Judge Faith Mattis
Movie
2002

Darkness

Actor
Maria
Movie
2002

AliasStream

Actor
Irina Derevko/Laura Bristow
TV Show
2001
86%

AliasStream

Guest Star
Irina Derevko/Laura Bristow
TV Show
2001
86%

Hamilton

Actor
Tessie
TV Show
2001

ChocolatStream

Actor
Josephine Muscat
Movie
2000
63%

Law & Order: Special Victims UnitStream

Guest Star
Ingrid Block
TV Show
1999
78%

Mystery Men

Actor
Dr. Annabel Leek
Movie
1999

The Ninth Gate

Actor
Liana Telfer
Movie
1999

Polish Wedding

Actor
Jadzia
Movie
1998

Hamilton

Actor
Tessie
Movie
1998

Go'kväll

Guest
TV Show
1997

Night Falls on Manhattan

Actor
Peggy Lindstrom
Movie
1996

The Night and the Moment

Actor
The Marquise
Movie
1994

Romeo Is Bleeding

Actor
Mona Demarkov
Movie
1993

Mr. Jones

Actor
Dr. Elizabeth "Libbie" Bowen
Movie
1993

Havana

Actor
Bobby Duran
Movie
1990

S/Y Gladjen

Actor
Annika Larsson
Movie
1989

Enemies, a Love Story

Actor
Masha
Movie
1989

The Unbearable Lightness of BeingStream

Actor
Sabina
Movie
1988
85%

Friends

Actor
Sue
Movie
1988

Pako pohjoiseen

Actor
Movie
1986

After the Rehearsal

Actor
Older Anna Egerman
Movie
1984

Fanny and AlexanderStream

Actor
Rosa
Movie
1982
100%

Gräsänklingar

Actor
Nina
Movie
1982

Les Folles aventures de Picasso

Actor
Dolores
Movie
1978

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