Lena Olin

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Recent Role:
Ingrid Block on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Gender:
Female
Born:
3-22-1956
Birthplace:
Stockholm, Sweden
Birth Name:
Lena Maria Jonna Olin
AKA:
Lena Olin-Hallström
Born March 22nd 1956, Lena is the daughter of Swedish actor Stig Olin and actress Britta Holmberg. She grew up in Sweden.


She is a member of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, and was well known in Sweden before her international success.


Like her father, she appears in several of Ingmar Bergmans projects.


In 1976 she appeared in the Ingmar Bergman movie Face to Face in a small role as a shop assistant. In 1980 Lena got the role of Lena in the Bergman movie Kãrleken. Her first english speaking role was in the








… More movie The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).


Lena has also had TV roles in shows such as Alias. Her most recent work also involves her husband, the director Lasse Hallström. They worked together on the film Casanova, scheduled for American release in December 2005.

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    Lena Olin is really a talented actress. In every role she really makes you believe that she actually is the character she's portraying. This sense of realism is what makes her really stand out above the masses of the rest of actresses today. My favorite movie of her's is "Cholocat."

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