![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden Biography:"Lena Olin" is an internationally respected actress noted for the smouldering sensuality and free-spiritedness she brings to her roles. The daughter of Swedish actor "Stig Olin", who starred in several early "Ingmar Bergman" films, she made her film debut in Kärleken (1980) while still in drama school. Like her father, Olin worked with "Bergman" and appeared in three of his films, including "After the Rehearsal" (1984), in a role "Bergman" created especially for her. Olin's first English-language role as the sexy mistress of a prominent Czech surgeon in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988) is also her best known, though in 1989, she earned a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for portraying the survivor of a Nazi death camp in "Paul Mazursky"'s "Enemies: A Love Story". In 1994, she played one of her more offbeat parts, a lady mobster who takes on would-be assassin "Gary Oldman" in "Romeo Is... Full Biography
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