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Lena Olin

Lena Olin

Highest Rated: 100% Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Lowest Rated: 5% Darkness (2002)

Birthday: Mar 22, 1955

Birthplace: Stockholm, 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."

Highest rated movies

100% Fanny and Alexander
92% After the Rehearsal
90% One Life
89% Enemies, a Love Story
87% The Unbearable Lightness of Being
76% Upgraded 71% Night Falls on Manhattan 67% Hilma

Photos

CASANOVA, Helen McCrory, Leigh Lawson, Lena Olin, Paddy Ward, Sienna Miller, Heath Ledger, 2005, (c) Touchstone ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY, Lena Olin, 1989, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY, Margaret Sophie Stein, Ron Silver, Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, 1989, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. HAVANA, from left: James Medina, Lena Olin, 1990, © Universal HAVANA, Lena Olin, 1990, © Universal REMEMBER ME, Lena Olin, 2010. ©Summit Entertainment CASANOVA, Lena Olin, Oliver Platt, 2005, (c) Touchstone CASANOVA, Lena Olin, 2005, (c) Touchstone ROMEO IS BLEEDING, Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, 1993, (c) Gramercy Pictures CHOCOLAT, Lena Olin (holding plate), 2000, © Miramax POLISH WEDDING, Mili Avital, Lena Olin, Claire Danes, 1998, bride HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Harrison Ford, 2003, (c) Columbia AFTER THE REHEARSAL, (aka EFTER REPETITIONEN), Erland Josephson, Lena Olin, 1984, (c) Triumph Releasing CHOCOLAT, Lena Olin (sweater), Juliette Binoche (plaid skirt), 2000, © Miramax DARKNESS, Stephen Enquist, Lena Olin, 2002, (c) Dimension Films CHOCOLAT, from left: Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, 2000, © Miramax CHOCOLAT, Juliette Binoche (left), Lena Olin (bottom), Helene Cardona (print blouse), Carrie-Anne Moss (white blouse), 2000, © Miramax CHOCOLAT, Juliette Binoche (left), Lena Olin (bottom), center left to right: Lena Olin, Juliette Binoche, 2000, © Miramax HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE, Lena Olin, 2003, (c) Columbia CHOCOLAT, Juliette Binoche (left), Lena Olin (bottom), center left to right: Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche, 2000, © Miramax
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
50% 65% Spaceman Zdena (Character) - 2024
76% 66% Upgraded Catherine Laroche (Character) - 2024
90% 94% One Life Grete Winton (Character) $5.7M 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Second Act Eva (Character) - 2023
67% 89% Hilma Hilma (Character) - 2022
No Score Yet 71% Adam Yevgeniya (Character) - 2020
60% 73% The Artist's Wife Claire Smythson (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Intensive Care Margaret (Character) - 2018
60% 53% Maya Dardel Maya (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 33% The Devil You Know Kathryn Vale (Character) - 2013
43% 61% Night Train to Lisbon Estefânia (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 29% The Hypnotist Simone Bark (Character) - 2012
26% 69% Remember Me Diane Hirsch (Character) $19.1M 2010
63% 79% The Reader Rose Mather/Ilana Mather (Character) $34.2M 2008
23% 55% Awake Lilith Beresford (Character) $14.4M 2007
No Score Yet 27% Bang Bang Orangutang Nina (Character) - 2005
45% 57% Casanova Andrea Bruni (Character) $11.3M 2005
34% 81% The United States of Leland Marybeth Fitzgerald (Character) $343.8K 2003
30% 27% Hollywood Homicide Ruby (Character) $30.0M 2003
No Score Yet 5% Ignition Judge Faith Mattis (Character) - 2002
5% 31% Darkness Maria (Character) $22.2M 2002
17% 66% Queen of the Damned Maharet (Character) $30.3M 2002
63% 83% Chocolat Josephine Muscat (Character) $165.5K 2000
43% 58% The Ninth Gate Liana Telfer (Character) $18.7M 1999
60% 57% Mystery Men Dr. Annabel Leek (Character) $29.8M 1999
No Score Yet 43% Commander Hamilton Tessie (Character) - 1998
42% 52% Polish Wedding Jadzia (Character) $600.3K 1998
71% 64% Night Falls on Manhattan Peggy Lindstrom (Character) $9.9M 1996
No Score Yet 50% The Night and the Moment The Marquise (Character) - 1994
43% 50% Mr. Jones Dr. Elizabeth 'Libbie' Bowen (Character) $8.0M 1993
27% 61% Romeo Is Bleeding Mona Demarkov (Character) $3.3M 1993
27% 57% Havana Bobby Duran (Character) $8.8M 1990
89% 54% Enemies, a Love Story Masha (Character) $7.8M 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet S/Y Gladjen Annika Larsson (Character) - 1989
87% 84% The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sabina (Character) $9.3M 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Friends Sue (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Flight North Unknown (Character) - 1986
92% 81% After the Rehearsal Older Anna Egerman (Character) - 1984
100% 94% Fanny and Alexander Rosa (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Adventures of Picasso Dolores (Character) - 1978

TV

Credit
68% 65% Hunters The Colonel (Character) 2020 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home & Family Guest 2020
No Score Yet 45% Riviera Clios (Character) 2017 2019
97% 95% Mindhunter Annaliese Stilman (Guest Star) 2017
79% 81% Welcome to Sweden Viveka (Character) 2014-2015
78% 82% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Ingrid Block (Guest Star) 2010
86% 88% Alias Irina Derevko (Character),
Irina Derevko/Laura Bristow (Guest Star) 		2002-2003 2005-2006