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Lena Olin (born Lena Maria Jonna Olin on March 22, 1955) is an internationally acclaimed actress. She was innate inside Stockholm, Sweden as the youngest of deuce-ace youngsters. Her father, Stig Olin was also an actor & appeared within many of Ingmar Bergman's films. Fallowing researching acting at a drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre inside Stockholm, Olin performed in stage classic plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen and appeared in smaller roles of many Swedish films directed by Bergman. It was he world health organization casted her number 1, when she experienced non passed her first audition because of her shyness. Late she acted at a Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, directed by Bergman.

Olin's international debut inside the lead role was in the 1984 Swedish film After a Rehearsal, which directed by Bergman. A month prior to she appeared within Bergman's Tail & Alexander. Inside 1988, Olin starred opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in her first Western film, A Intense Lightness of Existence, & became the easily-known & respected actress. Around 1989, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her work within Enemies: The Romance, where she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi camp.

Olinside is now the large member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, in which she began her career when young actress. She appears around numbers of different plays, from either classic to coeval.

Olin married twice. Her foremost better half was Örjan Ramberg, from whom she divorced. Around 1994, she married Lasse Hallström, a director sustaining whom she collaborated by owning in the 2000 film Chocolat. Chocolat went on to receive 5 Academy Award nominations.

From either 2002 to 2003, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner in her first television role on the 2nd year of the American television series Alias. For her work on the series when Irina Derevko, Olin received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress around 2003. Olaround received brobdingnagian critical acclamation for her a share in Alias - particularly her chemistry sustaining Victor Garber, who played her previous hubby & at one time or another-enemy Jack Bristow - and was rumored to own been offered the pay upwards of $100,000 by the episode to remain section of the cast. She left a indicate fallowing her number one & single year, even so, to spend extra instance by having her personal inside Just released York.

Inside May 2005, Olin returned for a 2-episode appearance at a prevent of the indicate's 4th year. A Post Gazette reports that Olaround will make at least a few appearances in the coming fifth year, which premieres in September.

She presently sleep in New York with her husb& & 2 tykes, August and Tora.

Filmography
Casanova (2005) The United States of Leland (2004) Hollywood Homicide (2003) Darkness (2002) Queen of the Damned (2002) Ignition (2001) Chocolat (2000) The Ninth Gate (1999) Mystery Men (1999) Hamilton (1998) Polish Wedding (1998) Night Falls on Manhattan (1997) The Night and the Moment (1995) Mr. Jones (1993) Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) Havana (1990) Enemies: A Love Story (1989) S/Y Joy (1989) Friends (1988) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) A Matter of Life and Death (1986) Flight North (1986) After the Rehearsal (1984). Fanny and Alexander (1983) One Week Bachelors (1982) Love (1980) The Adventures of Picasso (1978) Face to Face (1976)

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