Lena Olin
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Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress.
, Sweden
. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg
and the director Stig Olin
. She studied acting at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art
.
She was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1975
in Helsinki
, Finland
in October 1974.
-ensemble (1980–1994) in classic plays by Shakespeare
and 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
. Later she acted at the national stage in Stockholm in several productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman's production of King Lear
(in which Olin played Cordelia) she toured the world — Paris
, Berlin
, New York
, Copenhagen
, Moscow
and Oslo
, among others. Critically acclaimed stage performances by Olin at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre included the leading part as The Daughter in A Dream Play
by Strindberg, Margarita in the stage adaption of The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
, Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, Ann in Edward Bond
's Summer, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream
by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson
's The Alchemist
, the title role in Ingmar Bergman's rendition of Strindberg's Miss Julie
and her neurotic Charlotte in the contemporary drama Nattvarden (The Last Supper) by Lars Norén
.
In 1980 she was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Prize, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was also one of the two judges.
Olin's international debut in a lead role on film was in Bergman's After the Rehearsal
(1984). Two years earlier, she had appeared in a small role in the same director's Fanny and Alexander
. 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
(1990), Roman Polanski
's The Ninth Gate
(1999) and many others.
In 1989, she earned an Academy Award
nomination for Best Supporting Actress
for her work in Enemies: A Love Story
, in which she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi
camp. In 1994 Olin starred in Romeo Is Bleeding
and played what is perhaps her most extreme character to date; the outrageous hit woman Mona Demarkov - still one of the actress's most popular portrayals on film.
Olin and director Lasse Hallström
collaborated on the 2000 film Chocolat, which received five Academy Award
nominations, and on Casanova (2005). From 2002 to 2006, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner
in her first American television role ever; on the second season of the successful television series Alias
. For her work on the series as Irina Derevko
, Olin received an Emmy Award
nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003. Olin received good reviews for her part in Alias — particularly her chemistry with Victor Garber
, who played her former husband and sometime-enemy Jack Bristow
— and was rumored to have been offered a salary in excess of $100,000 per episode to remain part of the cast. She left the show after her first and only season; this was, however, to spend more time with her family in New York.
In May 2005, Olin returned to Alias for a two-episode appearance at the end of the show's fourth season, and subsequently appeared again in the fifth season, initially in a cameo in December 2005, and then following a four-month hiatus she appeared again in April 2006, and for the finale on 22 May 2006. An upcoming project is supposedly Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (which is to be directed by Hallström). Olin had a small but significant role in 2008's Oscar-nominated film The Reader, playing a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death march
in a trial in the 1960s and the woman's daughter twenty years later.
In 2005 she returned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a supporting role in Danish
director Simon Staho
's film Bang Bang Orangutang
(with a punk music soundtrack by, among others, The Clash
and Iggy Pop
).
, with whom she had acted opposite on stage in many productions. The relationship ended in the late 1980s. In 1994, she married film director Lasse Hallström
(whom she met in Sweden in 1992 back). They married in Hedvig Eleonora Church
in Stockholm. In 1995 they had a daughter, Tora.
Olin lives in New York
with her husband and children.
Early life
Olin was born the youngest of three children, in StockholmStockholm
Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. She is the daughter of actress Britta Holmberg
Britta Holmberg
Britta Holmberg, Britta Alice Holmberg , was a Swedish film actress. She appeared in 18 films between 1942 and 1973. She was married to actor Stig Olin , and is the mother of actress Lena Olin.She has sometimes been credited as Britta Olin, or Britta Holmberg-Olin.-External links:...
and the director Stig Olin
Stig Olin
Stig Olin was a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. Father of actress Lena Olin and Swedish singer Mats Olin...
. She studied acting at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art
Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting
The National Academy of Mime and Acting , known in Swedish as Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm, is a school in Stockholm for acting and mime...
.
She was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1975
Miss Scandinavia
Miss Scandinavia was a beauty pageant for Nordic females. The contest was merged with the Miss Baltic Sea pageant for the years 2007 and 2008 and after that the merged pageant was also discontinued.It was sponsored by MTV3.- Titleholders :...
in Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...
, Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
in October 1974.
Career
Olin worked both as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse before becoming an actress. Olin performed for over a decade with Sweden's Royal Dramatic TheatreRoyal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre is Sweden's national stage for "spoken drama", founded in 1788. Around one thousand shows are put on annually on the theatre's eight running stages....
-ensemble (1980–1994) in classic plays by Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
and Strindberg
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg's career spanned four decades, during which time he wrote over 60 plays and more than 30 works of fiction, autobiography,...
, and appeared in smaller roles of several Swedish films directed by Bergman and in productions of Swedish Television's TV-Theatre Company.
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
cast Olin in Face to Face
Face to Face (1976 film)
Face to Face is a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition...
. Later she acted at the national stage in Stockholm in several productions directed by Bergman, and with Bergman's production of King Lear
King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
(in which Olin played Cordelia) she toured the world — Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
, Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
and Oslo
Oslo
Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
, among others. Critically acclaimed stage performances by Olin at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre included the leading part as The Daughter in A Dream Play
A Dream Play
A Dream Play was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It was first performed in Stockholm on 17 April 1907. It remains one of Strindberg's most admired and influential dramas, seen as an important precursor to both dramatic Expressionism and Surrealism.-Plot:The primary...
by Strindberg, Margarita in the stage adaption of The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, and one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a...
by Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhaíl Afanásyevich Bulgákov was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.-Biography:Mikhail Bulgakov was born on...
, Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters, Ann in Edward Bond
Edward Bond
Edward Bond is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved , the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK...
's Summer, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
's The Alchemist
The Alchemist (play)
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature...
, the title role in Ingmar Bergman's rendition of Strindberg's Miss Julie
Miss Julie
Miss Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with class, love, lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them...
and her neurotic Charlotte in the contemporary drama Nattvarden (The Last Supper) by Lars Norén
Lars Norén
Lars Norén is a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. He is considered Sweden's most prominent contemporary playwright of today.Born in Stockholm, Norén wrote his first play at age 19...
.
In 1980 she was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Prize, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was also one of the two judges.
Olin's international debut in a lead role on film was in Bergman's After the Rehearsal
After the Rehearsal
After the Rehearsal is a made-for-TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's Drömspel. The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot summary:...
(1984). Two years earlier, she had appeared in a small role in the same director's Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 Swedish fantasy drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four-part TV movie and cut in that version, spanning 312 minutes. A 188-minute version was created later for cinematic release, although this version was in fact the...
. In 1988, Olin starred with Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood won Academy and BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe Awards for the latter...
in her first major part in an English speaking and internationally produced film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Philip Kaufman and screenplay writer Jean-Claude Carrière show Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring of the Communist...
, followed by Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
's Havana
Havana
Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...
(1990), Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
's The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate is a 1999 horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. It is a neo-noir, occult mystery thriller involving the rare book business, wherein rare-book dealer Dean Corso is hired by bibliophile Boris Balkan to validate a seventeenth-century copy of The Nine Gates...
(1999) and many others.
In 1989, she earned an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
nomination for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
for her work in Enemies: A Love Story
Enemies, a Love Story (film)
Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer.-Plot:...
, in which she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
camp. In 1994 Olin starred in Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleeding
Romeo Is Bleeding is a darkly comic 1993 crime film starring Gary Oldman and Lena Olin, directed by Peter Medak. The film's title was taken from a song by Tom Waits....
and played what is perhaps her most extreme character to date; the outrageous hit woman Mona Demarkov - still one of the actress's most popular portrayals on film.
Olin and director Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog and later for The Cider House Rules .-Life and career:...
collaborated on the 2000 film Chocolat, which received five Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
nominations, and on Casanova (2005). From 2002 to 2006, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Anne Affleck , better known as Jennifer Garner, is an American actress and film producer. Garner gained recognition on television for her performance as CIA agent Sydney Bristow in the thriller drama series Alias, which aired on ABC for five seasons from 2001 to 2006...
in her first American television role ever; on the second season of the successful television series Alias
Alias (TV series)
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006...
. For her work on the series as Irina Derevko
Irina Derevko
Irina Derevko , is a fictional character on the television series Alias, and a main character during the second season of the series. Irina, played by Lena Olin, is the mother of the central character, Sydney Bristow.-Biography:...
, Olin received an Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003. Olin received good reviews for her part in Alias — particularly her chemistry with Victor Garber
Victor Garber
Victor Joseph Garber is a Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. Garber is known for playing Jesus in Godspell, Jack Bristow in the television series Alias, Max in Lend Me a Tenor, and Thomas Andrews in James Cameron's Titanic.-Early life:Born in London, Ontario, Canada, Garber is...
, who played her former husband and sometime-enemy Jack Bristow
Jack Bristow
Jonathan "Jack" Donahue Bristow, played by Victor Garber, is Sydney Bristow's father on the television series Alias. Jack is widely referred to as "Spy Daddy" in Alias fandom, and consistently ranks as one of the most popular characters on the show...
— and was rumored to have been offered a salary in excess of $100,000 per episode to remain part of the cast. She left the show after her first and only season; this was, however, to spend more time with her family in New York.
In May 2005, Olin returned to Alias for a two-episode appearance at the end of the show's fourth season, and subsequently appeared again in the fifth season, initially in a cameo in December 2005, and then following a four-month hiatus she appeared again in April 2006, and for the finale on 22 May 2006. An upcoming project is supposedly Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (which is to be directed by Hallström). Olin had a small but significant role in 2008's Oscar-nominated film The Reader, playing a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death march
Death march
A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees. Those marching must walk over long distances for an extremely long period of time and are not supplied with food or water...
in a trial in the 1960s and the woman's daughter twenty years later.
In 2005 she returned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a supporting role in Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
director Simon Staho
Simon Staho
Danish film director Simon Staho has worked with a number of renowned Swedish actors, including Mikael Persbrandt, Noomi Rapace, Erland Josephson, Lena Endre, Lena Olin, Pernilla August, Michael Nyqvist, and Maria Bonnevie...
's film Bang Bang Orangutang
Bang Bang Orangutang
Bang Bang Orangutang is a 2005 Swedish film directed by Danish director Simon Staho starring Mikael Persbrandt, Tuva Novotny, Lena Olin, Fares Fares, Jonas Karlsson, Reine Brynolfsson and many other popular Swedish actors....
(with a punk music soundtrack by, among others, The Clash
The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band that formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. Along with punk, their music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly...
and Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
).
Personal life
In 1986 she gave birth to her first child, son Auguste Rahmberg. His father is Swedish actor Örjan RambergÖrjan Ramberg
Ralf Örjan Valter Ramberg, né Rahmberg , is a Swedish actor, born in Örgryte, Gothenburg.-Biography:Örjan Ramberg started his acting career in musicals with successful leading parts in the original Swedish stagings of Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar...
, with whom she had acted opposite on stage in many productions. The relationship ended in the late 1980s. In 1994, she married film director Lasse Hallström
Lasse Hallström
Lars Sven "Lasse" Hallström is a Swedish film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for My Life as a Dog and later for The Cider House Rules .-Life and career:...
(whom she met in Sweden in 1992 back). They married in Hedvig Eleonora Church
Hedvig Eleonora Church
Hedvig Eleonora Church is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden .The church was consecrated in 1737 and is named after the Swedish Queen Hedvig Eleonora , wife of King Charles X of Sweden...
in Stockholm. In 1995 they had a daughter, Tora.
Olin lives in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
with her husband and children.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Face to Face Face to Face (1976 film) Face to Face is a 1976 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness. It stars Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson. The film was screened at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, but was not entered into the main competition... |
Shop Assistant | |
| 1977 | Friaren som inte ville gifta sig | Gypsy Woman | TV movie |
| 1977 | Taboo | Girl (uncredited) | |
| 1978 | The Adventures of Picasso The Adventures of Picasso The Adventures of Picasso is a 1978 Swedish film comedy directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, as the famous painter... |
Dolores | |
| 1980 | Love | Lena | |
| 1982 | Som ni behager | TV movie | |
| 1982 | Gräsänklingar | Nina | |
| 1982 | Fanny and Alexander Fanny and Alexander Fanny and Alexander is a 1982 Swedish fantasy drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally conceived as a four-part TV movie and cut in that version, spanning 312 minutes. A 188-minute version was created later for cinematic release, although this version was in fact the... |
Ekdahlska huset - Rosa | |
| 1984 | After the Rehearsal After the Rehearsal After the Rehearsal is a made-for-TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's Drömspel. The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot summary:... |
Anna Egerman (older) | TV movie |
| 1985 | Wallenberg: A Hero's Story Wallenberg: A Hero's Story Wallenberg: A Hero's Story is a 1985 NBC made-for-television movie starring Richard Chamberlain as Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat instrumental in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust.... |
Marta | TV movie |
| 1986 | Glasmästarna | Lady with Dog | TV movie |
| 1986 | Flight North Flight North Flight North is a 1986 German-Finnish drama film directed by Ingemo Engström. It was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Katharina Thalbach as Johanna* Jukka-Pekka Palo as Ragnar* Lena Olin as Karin* Tom Pöysti as Jens... |
Karin | |
| 1986 | A Matter of Life and Death | Nadja Melander | |
| 1987 | Komedianter | Ann | TV movie |
| 1988 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Unbearable Lightness of Being (film) The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 American film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera, published in 1984. Director Philip Kaufman and screenplay writer Jean-Claude Carrière show Czechoslovak artistic and intellectual life during the Prague Spring of the Communist... |
Sabina | |
| 1988 | Friends | Sue | |
| 1989 | S/Y Glädjen S/Y Joy S/Y Joy is a 1989 Swedish film directed by Göran du Rées, made after the book by Inger Alfvén.-Synopsis:... |
Annika Larsson | |
| 1989 | Enemies, a Love Story Enemies, a Love Story (film) Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer.-Plot:... |
Masha | |
| 1990 | Hebriana | Lena | TV movie |
| 1990 | Havana Havana (film) Havana is a drama film starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin and Raúl Juliá, directed by Sydney Pollack with music by Dave Grusin, and released in 1990. In the film, an American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran... |
Bobby Duran | |
| 1993 | Romeo Is Bleeding Romeo Is Bleeding Romeo Is Bleeding is a darkly comic 1993 crime film starring Gary Oldman and Lena Olin, directed by Peter Medak. The film's title was taken from a song by Tom Waits.... |
Mona Demarkov | |
| 1993 | Mr. Jones Mr. Jones (film) Mr. Jones is a 1993 romantic drama film starring Richard Gere, Lena Olin, Anne Bancroft, Tom Irwin and Delroy Lindo, and directed by Mike Figgis.- Plot :... |
Dr. Elizabeth Bowen | |
| 1995 | The Night and the Moment The Night and the Moment -Plot:A writer is invited to the house of a noblewoman who adores free-thinkers. He attempts to seduce her but she insists that he tell her of his past love exploits. While doing so, he takes her through his time in prison where he was unknowingly incarcerated in the cell beside hers.-Cast:... |
The Marquise | |
| 1996 | Night Falls on Manhattan Night Falls on Manhattan Night Falls on Manhattan is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, set and filmed on location in New York City. Its screenplay is by Lumet, based on a novel by author Robert Daley entitled: Tainted Evidence... |
Peggy Lindstrom | |
| 1998 | Polish Wedding Polish Wedding Polish Wedding is a 1998 comedy/drama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly.It was screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 16, 1998 and at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 12... |
Jadzia | |
| 1998 | Commander Hamilton | Tessie | |
| 1999 | Mystery Men Mystery Men Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film based on a Dark Horse comic book series feature in Flaming Carrot Comics by Bob Burden, directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. It stars William H. Macy, Ben Stiller, and Hank Azaria as a trio of lesser superheroes with fairly unimpressive superpowers who... |
Dr. Anabel Leek | |
| 1999 | The Ninth Gate The Ninth Gate The Ninth Gate is a 1999 horror film directed, produced, and co-written by Roman Polanski. It is a neo-noir, occult mystery thriller involving the rare book business, wherein rare-book dealer Dean Corso is hired by bibliophile Boris Balkan to validate a seventeenth-century copy of The Nine Gates... |
Liana Telfer | |
| 2000 | Chocolat | Josephine Muscat | |
| 2001 | Ignition Ignition (2001 film) Ignition is a 2001 action drama, written by William Davies and directed by Yves Simoneau.-Plot:NASA is about to launch a rocket to put a man on the moon and corrupt high ranking military officials, plot to assassinate the president over budget cuts.... |
Judge Faith Mattis | |
| 2001 | Hamilton Hamilton (film) Hamilton is a 1998 Swedish action film directed by Harald Zwart, starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin. The film was edited with additional scenes into a 6 hour long TV-series in 2001... |
Tessie | TV movie |
| 2002 | Queen of the Damned Queen of the Damned (film) Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned, although the film contains many plot elements from the latter novel's predecessor, The Vampire Lestat. It stars Aaliyah as the vampire queen Akasha, and Stuart... |
Maharet | |
| 2002 | Darkness Darkness (2002 film) Darkness is a 2002 horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró about an American teenage girl who moves into a haunted house with her family in the Spanish countryside. The film stars Anna Paquin, Lena Olin, Iain Glen, and Fele Martínez.... |
Maria | |
| 2002-2006 | Alias Alias (TV series) Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006... |
Irina Derevko Irina Derevko Irina Derevko , is a fictional character on the television series Alias, and a main character during the second season of the series. Irina, played by Lena Olin, is the mother of the central character, Sydney Bristow.-Biography:... |
27 episodes |
| 2003 | The United States of Leland The United States of Leland The United States of Leland is a 2003 American drama film by director Matthew Ryan Hoge and producer Kevin Spacey about a meek teenaged boy named Leland P. Fitzgerald who has inexplicably committed a shocking murder... |
Marybeth Fitzgerald | |
| 2003 | Hollywood Homicide Hollywood Homicide Hollywood Homicide is a 2003 American action comedy film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.The film also features Lena Olin, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Landau, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Dwight Yoakam and Master P in supporting roles, with Eric Idle making a cameo... |
Ruby | |
| 2005 | Casanova | Andrea | |
| 2005 | Bang Bang Orangutang Bang Bang Orangutang Bang Bang Orangutang is a 2005 Swedish film directed by Danish director Simon Staho starring Mikael Persbrandt, Tuva Novotny, Lena Olin, Fares Fares, Jonas Karlsson, Reine Brynolfsson and many other popular Swedish actors.... |
Nina | |
| 2007 | Awake Awake (film) Awake is a 2007 American crime/supernatural/conspiracy thriller written and directed by Joby Harold. It stars Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard and Lena Olin. The film was released in the United States and Canada on November 30, 2007.... |
Lilith Beresford | |
| 2008 | The Reader | Rose Mather / Ilana Mather | |
| 2009 | Devil You Know | Kathyn Vale | |
| 2010 | Remember Me Remember Me (2010 film) Remember Me is a 2010 American romantic coming of age drama film directed by Allen Coulter, and screenplay by Will Fetters. It stars Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin, Chris Cooper, Lena Olin, and Pierce Brosnan.-Plot:... |
Diane Hirsch | |
| 2010 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced... |
Ingrid Block | Episode: "Confidential" |