Lena Olin Biography
Lena Maria Joanna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and Primetime Emmy Award. Mentored by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, she made her screen debut with a small role in his film Face to Face 1976.
How old is Lena Olin? – Age
She 69 years old as of March 22, 2024. The actress was born on March 22, 1955, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lena Olin Height
The actress stands at 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Lena Olin Early Life
Olin was born the youngest of three children of actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin. She studied acting at Sweden’s National Academy of Dramatic Art from 1976 to 1979. In October 1974, at age 19, Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia in Helsinki, Finland. Lena worked as a substitute teacher, and as a hospital nurse, before becoming an actress.
Is Lena Olin married? – Husband
Since 1992, she has been married to filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom, with whom she has a daughter with, Tora. They reside in Bedford, New York. Also she has a son, August, from a relationship she was, with actor Orjan Ramberg.
Lean Olin Career
Lena performed for over a decade with Sweden’s Royal Dramatic Theatre-ensemble in plays by William Shakespeare and August Strindberg, and appeared in smaller roles of several Swedish films directed by Bergman and in productions of Swedish Television’s TV-Theatre Company. Ingmar Bergman cast Olin in Face to Face. A year later, she began acting at the national stage in Stockholm in productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman’s production of King Lear she toured the world, including Paris, Berlin, New York, Copenhagen, Moscow, and Oslo.
In 980, Olin was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Award, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was also one of the two judges. Her international debut in film was a small role in Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander 1980, with Bergman later casting her in her first international lead role, After the Rehearsal. In 1988, Olin starred with Daniel Day-Lewis in her first major part in an English speaking and internationally produced film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, followed by Sydney Pollack’s Havana, Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate and others.
In 2002, Olin appeared in her first American television role, joining the main cast of Alias for its second, playing the role of Irina Derevko. For her work on the series, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2003. In 2005, Olin retuned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a supporting role in Danish director Simon Staho’s film Bang Bang Orangutang. In 2008, she appeared in the Oscar-nominated film The Reader, playing a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death march at a trial in the 1960s and as the woman’s daughter twenty years later.
Lean Olin Net Worth
The Swedish actress has a net worth of $5 million.
Lean Olin Movie
1976 – Face to Face
1977 – Taboo
1980 – Love
1983 – After the Rehearsal
1985 – Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story
1987 – Komedianter
1990 – Havana
1999 – Mystery Men
2000 – Chocolat
2001 – Ignition
2005 – Casanova
2017 – Maya Dardel
2020 – Adam
2022 – Hilma
2023 – One Life
2024 – Upgraded
2024 – Spaceman