Lena Olin
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| Lena Olin is an internationally respected actress noted for the smouldering sensuality and free spiritedness she brings to her roles. The daughter of Swedish actor Stig Olin, who starred in several early Ingmar Bergman films, she made her film debut in Karleken (1980) while still in drama school. Like her father, Olin worked with Bergman and appeared in three of his films, including After the Rehearsal (1984) in a role Bergman created especially for her. Olin's first English-language role as the sexy mistress of a prominent Czech surgeon in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) is also her best known, though in 1989, she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for portraying the survivor of a Nazi death camp in Paul Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story. In 1994, she played one of her more off-beat parts, a lady mobster who takes on would-be assassin Gary Oldman in Romeo is Bleeding. Back in Sweden, Olin is a promininent member of the Royal Dramatic Theater where she is known for appearing in a wide vareity of productions ranging from Shakespeare, to Strindberg and ontemporary works. |