1. 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 traumatized Holocaust survivor in the dramedy Enemies, A Love Story, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 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 Maria Jonna Olin was born on 22 March 1955, in Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of three children of actors Britta Holmberg and Stig 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 in Helsinki, Finland.
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Lena Olin worked as a substitute teacher and as a hospital nurse, before becoming an actress.
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Lena Olin toured internationally with Bergman's production of King Lear, including Paris, Berlin, New York, Copenhagen, Moscow, and Oslo.
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In 1980, Lena Olin was one of the earliest winners of the Ingmar Bergman Award at the Guldbagge Awards, initiated in 1978 by the director himself, who was one of the two judges.
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Lena Olin's international debut in film was a small role in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander, with Bergman later casting her in her first international lead role, After the Rehearsal.
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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 others.
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In 1989, Lena Olin was nominated for the Academy Award 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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Lena Olin starred in the 1993 thriller Romeo Is Bleeding, and in the 1999 American superhero comedy film Mystery Men.
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In 2002, Lena Olin appeared in her first American television role, joining the main cast of Alias for its second season, playing the role of Irina Derevko.
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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 appeared in the Oscar-nominated film The Reader, playing a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz death march at a trial in the 1960s, and as the woman's daughter twenty years later.
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Between 2014 and 2015, Lena Olin starred in Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden.