Lena Olin
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Birthplace:
Stockholm, Sweden
Lithe, intense Swedish leading lady of Hollywood and international films, Olin's parents were both actors. Her father Stig starred in several early Ingmar Bergman films. She has long been a member of the Royal Dramatic Theater in Sweden, where she has made outstanding appearances in work ranging from Shakespeare and Strindberg to contemporary plays. While still in drama school, Olin made her Swedish film debut in Karleken (1980). Two of her next three films were made by Bergman: Fanny and Alexander (1983) and After the Rehearsal (1984); her part in the latter was created for her by Bergman. She also did a four-hour Swedish TV film, Hebriana. Her English-language film debut was in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). For her second English-language role, that of a survivor of a Nazi death camp in Paul Mazursky's Enemies, A Love Story (1989), Olin received a New York Film Critics award and an Oscar nomination. She is the only Swedish actress to have made an impact in Hollywood since Ingrid Bergman.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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65% | The Artist's Wife |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Adam |
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— | 2020 |
57% | Maya Dardel |
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— | 2017 |
41% | Night Train To Lisbon |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | The Devil You Know |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Hypnotisören (The Hypnotist) |
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— | 2012 |
27% | Remember Me |
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$18.3M | 2010 |
63% | The Reader |
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$34.2M | 2008 |
23% | Awake |
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$14.3M | 2007 |
44% | Casanova |
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$11.2M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Bang Bang Orangutang |
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— | 2005 |
4% | Darkness |
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$22.1M | 2004 |
34% | The United States of Leland |
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$0.3M | 2004 |
30% | Hollywood Homicide |
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$30.1M | 2003 |
17% | Queen of the Damned |
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$31.1M | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Ignition (Kingdom Come) |
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— | 2001 |
62% | Chocolat |
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— | 2000 |
44% | The Ninth Gate |
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— | 1999 |
61% | Mystery Men |
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— | 1999 |
42% | Polish Wedding |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Commander Hamilton |
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— | 1998 |
69% | Night Falls on Manhattan |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Night and the Moment |
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— | 1995 |
46% | Mr. Jones |
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— | 1993 |
27% | Romeo Is Bleeding |
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— | 1993 |
28% | Havana |
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— | 1990 |
85% | Enemies, a Love Story |
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— | 1989 |
85% | The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story |
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— | 1985 |
92% | Efter repetitionen (After the Rehearsal) |
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— | 1984 |
100% | Fanny & Alexander |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | The Adventures of Picasso |
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— | 1978 |
81% | Face to Face (Ansikte mot Ansikte) |
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— | 1976 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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64% |
Hunters
2020
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No Score Yet |
Riviera
2017
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79% |
Welcome to Sweden
2014-2015
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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85% |
Alias
2001-2006
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Quotes from Lena Olin's Characters
Liana Telfer: | Don't fuck with me! |
Dean Corso: | I thought I already did. |
Sabina: | I love trains. They are so erotic. |