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Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an internationally acclaimed Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress. March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province SÃ¶dermanland and Uppland Charter 13th century Government - Mayor Kristina AxÃ©n Olin (m) Population (March 2007) - City 786,509 - Density 4,160/kmÂ² (10,774. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... BAFTA Award The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ... Winners of the BAFTA Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. ... Chocolat is a 2000 film based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris. ... An Emmy Award. ... This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series winners: 1974: Joanna Miles - The Glass Menagerie 1975-78 No Award Given 1979: Kristy McNichol - Family 1980: Nancy Marchand - Lou Grant 1981: Nancy Marchand - Lou Grant 1982: Nancy Marchand - Lou Grant 1983: Doris... Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ... The Golden Globe Award The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ... The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province SÃ¶dermanland and Uppland Charter 13th century Government - Mayor Kristina AxÃ©n Olin (m) Population (March 2007) - City 786,509 - Density 4,160/kmÂ² (10,774. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

Biography

Olin was born in Stockholm as the youngest of three children. Her father, Stig Olin, was a singer, a composer, and an actor who appeared in several of Ingmar Bergman's films. Her mother, Britta Holmberg, was also an actress and singer. Her brother is the Swedish singer Mats Olin. Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province SÃ¶dermanland and Uppland Charter 13th century Government - Mayor Kristina AxÃ©n Olin (m) Population (March 2007) - City 786,509 - Density 4,160/kmÂ² (10,774. ... Stig Olin (born September 11, 1920) is a Swedish actor, theatre director, songwriter and singer. ... (IPA: in Swedish, but usually IPA: in English) (July 14, 1918 â€“ July 30, 2007) was a Swedish stage and film director. ...

After studying acting at Sweden's National Academy of Dramatic Art (Scenskolan aka NAMA today) 1976-79, Olin performed for over a decade with Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre-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. The National Academy of Mime and Acting, known in Swedish as TeaterhÃ¶gskolan i Stockholm, is a school in Stockholm for acting and mime. ... The Royal Dramatic Theatre or in Swedish Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, colloquially known in Sweden as Dramaten, is Swedens national stage for spoken drama. Around one thousand shows are played annually on the theatres eight running stages. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... August Strindberg Portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh (January 22, 1849 â€“ May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. ...

It was Ingmar Bergman who'd cast her for the first time (in a small part in Face to Face), after she had not passed her first audition for theatre school because of her shyness. 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 national theatres in Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Moscow and Oslo, a.o. Critically acclaimed stage credits for Olin at Sweden's Royal Dramatic Theatre include 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 Johnson'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 (also director). Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte in Swedish) is a 1976 movie which tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from her own mental illness. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is based on the legend of King Lear, a legendary king of Britain, and is considered to be one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) The Eiffel Tower in Paris, as seen from the esplanade du TrocadÃ©ro. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Copenhagen (IPA: or ; Danish: IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city. ... Position of Moscow in Europe Coordinates: , Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Government - Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Area - City 1,081 kmÂ² (417. ... County District Viken Municipality NO-0301 Administrative centre Oslo Mayor (2004) Per Ditlev-Simonsen (H) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 224 454 kmÂ² 426 kmÂ² 0. ... A Dream Play (Swedish: Ett drÃ¶mspel) was written in 1901 by the Swedish playwright, August Strindberg, and first performed in Stockholm on April 17, 1907. ... August Strindberg, photographic selfportrait Johan August Strindberg (Stockholm, January 22, 1849 - Stockholm, May 14, 1912) was a writer and playwright of Sweden. ... The Master and Margarita (Russian: ) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. ... Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (Russian: ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸Ð» ÐÑ„Ð°Ð½Ð°ÑÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð‘ÑƒÐ»Ð³Ð°ÐºÐ¾Ð²; May 15 [O.S. May 3] 1891, Kiev â€“ March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Russian novelist and playwright of the first half of the 20th century. ... Categories: People stubs | 1707 births | 1793 deaths ... Edward Bond (born July 18, 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, theorist and screenwriter. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Shakespeare redirects here. ... There have been several people called Ben Johnson or Jonson: Ben Jonson (1572-1637; Elizabethan dramatist, poet & actor) Ben Johnson (c. ... David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonsons The Alchemist by Johann Zoffany. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lars NorÃ©n (born April 9, 1944) is a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. ...

Olin's international debut in a lead role on film was in the 1984 Swedish film After the Rehearsal, which was directed by Bergman. The year before she had appeared in a small role in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. In 1988, Olin starred opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in her first English speaking and internationally produced film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and became a respected actress outside of Europe as well. Olin upon this received offers from the US and Hollywood. 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 her, perhaps, most extreme character to date; the outrageous hit woman Mona Demarkov - still one of the actresses most popular portrayals on film. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... After the Rehearsal (called Efter repetitionen in the original Swedish) is a made for TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. ... Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957), is an Academy-Award winning and Golden Globe-award nominated actor. ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1988 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Milan Kundera. ... ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... The Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the awards given to actresses working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ... Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story (Yiddish: ) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... cover of DVD release Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1994 darkly comic police story starring Lena Olin and Gary Oldman. ...

In 1986 she gave birth to her first child, son August Ramberg. His father was fellow Swedish actor Örjan Ramberg, with whom she had lived for several years (since the 1970s) and acted opposite on stage in many productions. The relationship ended in the late 1980s. Ralf Ã–rjan Valter Rahmberg (February 26, 1948), is a Swedish actor, born in Ã–rgryte, Gothenburg. ...

In 1994, she married film director Lasse Hallström (whom she met in 1992 back in Sweden). They lived together for two years before they married in Hedvig Eleonora Church in Stockholm. The couple later collaborated on the 2000 film Chocolat, which received five Academy Award nominations, and on Casanova (2005). In 1995 they had a daughter, Tora Maria Elin. Hallström also has a son from a previous relationship; Johan, born in 1976. Lena Olin, Lasse HallstrÃ¶m, and Juliette Binoche at the premiere of Chocolat at the 2001 Berlinale (photo by Michael Weiner) Lars Sven (Lasse) HallstrÃ¶m (born 2 June 1946 in Stockholm) is a Swedish film director. ... Hedvig Eleonora Church Hedvig Eleonora Church (Hedvig Eleonora kyrka) is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden (in the east district of Ã–stermalm). ... Chocolat is a 2000 movie based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris. ... Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... Casanova is a 2005 comedy film directed by Lasse HallstrÃ¶m based on the life of Giacomo Casanova. ...

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, however, to spend more time with her family in New York. Jennifer Anne Garner [1] (born April 17, 1972) is a Golden Globe Award- and SAG Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film and television actress, and producer. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Alias is an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006, spanning five seasons. ... Irina Derevko (also known as Laura Bristow and as The Man), is a fictional character on the television series Alias. ... An Emmy Award. ... Victor Joseph Garber (born on March 16, 1949 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a six-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian film, stage and television actor and singer. ... Jonathan Jack Donahue Bristow, played by Victor Garber, is Sydney Bristows father on the television series, Alias. ...

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 May 22, 2006.

Lena Olin currently lives in New York with her husband and children. In 2005 she returned to Sweden for a brief period of filming and starred in a fine supporting role in Danish director Simon Staho's experimental/avant garde film Bang Bang Orangutang (with a punk music soundtrack by a.o. The Clash). Upcoming projects are films The Devil You Know, Awake and (rumoured) Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (which is to be directed by Lasse Hallström). NY redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... 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. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Awake is a thriller/drama starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba. ...

Filmography

Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte in Swedish) is a 1976 movie which tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from her own mental illness. ... MoliÃ¨re, engraved on the frontispiece to his Works. ... Scene from As you like it, Francis Hayman, c. ... Fanny and Alexander (Swedish: Fanny och Alexander) is a 1982 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. ... After the Rehearsal (called Efter repetitionen in the original Swedish) is a made for TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. ... Lars NorÃ©n (born April 9, 1944) is a Swedish playwright, novelist and poet. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Enemies, a Love Story is a 1989 film directed by Paul Mazursky, based on the novel Enemies, a Love Story (Yiddish: ) by Isaac Bashevis Singer. ... Havana is an independent 1990 drama starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, and Raul Julia, directed by Sydney Pollack and with music by Dave Grusin. ... cover of DVD release Romeo Is Bleeding is a 1994 darkly comic police story starring Lena Olin and Gary Oldman. ... Mr. ... The Night and the Moment is 1995 erotic drama, unreleased until 1998, and featuring Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson and Lena Olin. ... This article or section needs to be wikified. ... Polish Wedding is a 1998 comedy/drama film written and directed by Theresa Connelly. ... Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton Hamilton is a Swedish action film from 1998 starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin, directed by Harald Zwart. ... Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. ... The Ninth Gate is a Spanish/French English-language mystery film based on the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte. ... Chocolat is a 2000 movie based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris. ... Queen of the Damned is a 2002 film adaptation of the third novel of Anne Rices The Vampire Chronicles series, The Queen of the Damned although the film contained many plot elements from that novels predecessor, The Vampire Lestat. ... Movie poster for Darkness Darkness is a 2002 horror film directed by Jaume BalaguerÃ³. Tagline: Some secrets should never come to light Main cast Anna Paquin . ... Hollywood Homicide is an action comedy 2003 film starring Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett. ... The United States of Leland is a 2004 dramatic movie by director Matthew Ryan Hoge about a meek teenaged boy named Leland P. Fitzgerald who has inexplicably committed a shocking murder. ... Casanova is a 2005 comedy film directed by Lasse HallstrÃ¶m based on the life of Giacomo Casanova. ... 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. ...

Trivia

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