More Lena Olin Bios & Profiles
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Biography #2 (for Hollywood Homicide)
The Swedish-born star appeared in Hollywood Homicide at the same time she was working on the popular television series Alias.Following her motion picture bow in Ingmar Bergman's After The Rehearsal, she made a lasting impression in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness Of Being opposite Daniel Day Lewis and Juliette Binoche. After Enemies, A Love Story, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress, she starred opposite Robert Redford in Havana and Richard Gere in Mr. Jones.
Subsequent film credits include Romeo Is Bleeding, The Night and The Moment, Night Falls on Manhattan, Polish Wedding, Commander Hamilton, The Mystery Man, The Ninth Gate, Chocolat, Ignition, The Queen of The Damned, Darkness and The United States of Leland.
Olin was trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm where she appeared in A Dream Play and King Lear for director Ingmar Bergman. Her other roles at the prestigious theatre include The Alchemist, Paradisbarnen, Juno and The Paycock, Gross Und Klein, Servitore Di Due Padrone, Restoration, Nattvarden, Summer and The Master And Margarita. She also appeared in Strindberg's Miss Julie at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, also under Bergman's direction.
Bio courtesy Columbia Pictures for "Hollywood Homicide" (08-Jun-2003)
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