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Lena speaks Swedish at home with husband and two children.
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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.
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After Lena graduated theater studies, she performed in classic stage plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen.
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Lena played alongside
Harrison Ford in the 2003 movie
Hollywood Homicide. She was cast as his love interest.
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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).
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Lena's professions are actor, hospital orderly, and a substitute teacher.
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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.
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Lena is a stepmother to Johan Hallström, born 1976, her husband's son from his previous marriage.
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In 2003, she joined the
Alias cast for one season.
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Lena appeared in the humorous crime drama The Swedish Job in 2004.
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Her first tv role was on the show
Alias.
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She left the TV show
Alias so that she could spend more time with her family in New York.
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She began her career on stage of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
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Lena is the youngest of three siblings. She has two brothers, Mats and Per Olin.
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Bergman created the role she played in the 1984 movie After the Rehearsal especially for her.
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She recieved the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress, for her preformance in the movie Enemies, A Love Story.
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Lena is educated at the Royal Dramatic Theater (Sweden).
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Lena has a daughter, Tora Maria Elin, born in 1995, with her husband Lasse Hallström.
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She has a son, August, with actor Örjan Ramberg.
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In 1994, she got an MTV Movie Award nomination (Best Action Sequence) for
Romeo Is Bleeding.
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Lena won the - Miss Scandinavia contest of 1975.
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Her height is 5'11" (180 cm).
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Lena has been married to the director Lasse Hallström since 18. March 1994.
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Her brother is the actor and singer Mats Olin.
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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.
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She won a New York Film Critics Circle award for Enemies: A Love Story (1989).
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Lena was Golden Globe nominated for best supporting actress in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
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She was nominated for a British Academy Award, best supporting actress in Chocolat.
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She was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in the film Enemies: A Love Story (1989).
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She was nominated for an Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category for her role on
Alias (2002).