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Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955) is an internationally acclaimed Swedish actress. She 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. Also her mother, Britta Holmberg, was an actress. Her brother is the Swedish singer Mats Olin.
After studying acting at the drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Olin performed on stage classic plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen and appeared in smaller roles of several Swedish films directed by Bergman. It was he who cast her for the first time, after she had not passed her first audition because of her shyness. Later she acted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, directed by Bergman.
Olin's international debut in a lead role was in the 1984 Swedish film After the Rehearsal, which was directed by Bergman. The year before she appeared in Bergman's Fanny and Alexander. In 1988, Olin starred opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in her first American film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and became a well-known and respected actress. 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.
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