lena olin

Lena Maria Jonna Olin was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on March 22, 1955. The youngest of three siblings, her parents worked in show business, they were actress Britta Holmberg and actor-director Stig Olin . With such background it is not a surprise that she wanted to dedicate herself to acting, and for this she went to the National Academy of Dramatic Art. She was also pretty, which is attested to by the fact that she was proclaimed Miss Scandinavia at only 19 years old.

For more than a decade he has performed on theater stages with the company of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, doing classics such as Shakespeare or the compatriot Strindberg. In cinema, his first appearances are little more than an extra, although he can boast of having been with Ingmar Bergman in Fanny and Alexander in 1982, and two years later with a leading role in After the rehearsal , because the theater had facilitated contact –It was Cordelia for him in “King Lear”–, thanks to which he had been able to see her for the first time on celluloid in Face to Face (1976) .

Regarding his way of approaching work, he commented in an interview: “For me, the most interesting and authentic thing in my work consists in never delivering a finished character on paper, because then you lose a part of the truth. I cannot say that this person is just like that or like that. Since you can’t do that with real people in the real world, if you try to do it on stage, you miss the truth.”

Internationally, Lena’s first starring role was in the adaptation of the Czech Milas Kundera ‘s The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kauffman, 1988), where she coincided with a monster of interpretation, Daniel Day-Lewis . And the following year she was nominated for an Oscar for Enemies, a love story . Her film career can be considered spotty, though she has frequently chosen interesting directors to work with. She has been with such heartthrobs as Robert Redford ( Havana , Sydney Pollack , 1990), Casablanca Without the Magic of Casablanca , and Richard Gere ( Mr. Jones ,Mike Figgis , 1993). And in the thriller about justice and corruption Night falls on Manahattan (1997), by the great Sidney Lumet , along with Andy García . Roman Polanski directed her in The Ninth Door (1999), an adaptation of “El club Dumas” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte , and her husband since 1994, Lasse Hallström , directed her for the first time in Chocolat (2000), a form of launch the third millennium together. They have only repeated once, twelve years later, in The Hypnotist . They both have a daughter, although she previously had a child with actor Örjan Ramberg .

Of course his filmography is anything but conventional. The same is in one of trashy superheroes, Mysterious Men (1999), who signed up in 2002 to put himself under the orders of Jaume Balagueró in the terrifying Darkness or to make the horrifying Queen of the Damned . Either she has a great time in the television series Alias ​​(2002), being the evil (or not) spy mother of the protagonist, Jennifer Garner , and wife of Victor Garber . She will continue to play roles in movies, in titles like Casanova (2005) or Despierto (2007), but without a doubt her most important film in recent times wasThe Reader (The reader) (2008), although it was obviously secondary.