Lena Olin

Lena speaks Swedish at home with husband and two children.

In 2001, Lena was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture category for the film Chocolat.

After Lena graduated theater studies, she performed in classic stage plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen.

Lena played alongside Harrison Ford in the 2003 movie Hollywood Homicide. She was cast as his love interest.

Lena's first appearance was on Ingmar Bergman's movie Face to Face in 1976. She was cast after Bergman saw her talent in an audition back in 1972 (although she didn't succeed).

Lena's professions are actor, hospital orderly, and a substitute teacher.

Lena's father is Stig Olin, an actor who appeared in Ingmar Bergman's directions. Her mother, Britta Olin, stopped acting at age 30 in order to raise her children. They are divorced.

Lena is a stepmother to Johan Hallström, born 1976, her husband's son from his previous marriage.

In 2003, she joined the Alias cast for one season.

Lena appeared in the humorous crime drama The Swedish Job in 2004.

Her first tv role was on the show Alias.

She left the TV show Alias so that she could spend more time with her family in New York.

She began her career on stage of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.

Lena is the youngest of three siblings. She has two brothers, Mats and Per Olin.

Bergman created the role she played in the 1984 movie After the Rehearsal especially for her.

She recieved the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress, for her preformance in the movie Enemies, A Love Story.

Lena is educated at the Royal Dramatic Theater (Sweden).

Lena has a daughter, Tora Maria Elin, born in 1995, with her husband Lasse Hallström.

She has a son, August, with actor Örjan Ramberg.

In 1994, she got an MTV Movie Award nomination (Best Action Sequence) for
Romeo Is Bleeding.

Lena won the - Miss Scandinavia contest of 1975.

Her height is 5'11" (180 cm).

Lena has been married to the director Lasse Hallström since 18. March 1994.

Her brother is the actor and singer Mats Olin.

Lena Olin returned as a guest to Alias in the last two episodes of the 4th season. She was a regular only on the 2nd season.

She won a New York Film Critics Circle award for Enemies: A Love Story (1989).

Lena was Golden Globe nominated for best supporting actress in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).

She was nominated for a British Academy Award, best supporting actress in Chocolat.

She was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the film Enemies: A Love Story (1989).

She was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category for her role on Alias (2002).