Lena Olin has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
17 Facts About Lena Olin
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Lena Olin garnered further critical acclaim for her portrayals of a Jewish survivor in the comedy-drama Enemies, A Love Story, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an abused wife in the comedy-drama Chocolat, for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
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On television, Lena Olin starred as KGB agent Irina Derevko on the spy thriller Alias, which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
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Lena Olin was born March 22,1955, in Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of three children of actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Lena Olin.
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Lena Olin studied acting at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art from 1976 to 1979.
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In October 1974, at age 19, Lena Olin was crowned Miss Scandinavia 1974 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Lena Olin worked both as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse before becoming an actress.
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In 1980, Lena Olin was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Award, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was one of the two judges.
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In 1988, Lena 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, Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, and many others.
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In 1989, Lena Olin 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 death camp.
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From 2002 to 2006, Lena Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner in her first American television role, starting on the second season of the successful television series Alias as Irina Derevko.
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Lena Olin left the show after her first and only season; this was to spend more time with her family in New York.
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In May 2005, Lena 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.
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In 2005, Lena Olin 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.
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In 2008, Lena Olin had a small but significant role in the 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.
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Between 2014 and 2015, Lena Olin starred in Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden.
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Lena Olin starred in the US-Polish independent drama film Maya Dardel in the year 2017.