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Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olin is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.
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entertainment · Swedish actress (born 1955) · stage actor · film actor · beauty pageant contestant · actor · also Lena Olin, Olin
Born 22 March 1955 · Q228862
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Played the lead role as Detective Hulda Hermannsdóttir in the Icelandic/American Nordic Noir TV series The Darkness, directed by Lasse Hallström, with whom she had previously collaborated
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2023· 1 entry
Deadline.com: Lena Olin To Star In Icelandic Detective Drama Series ‘The Darkness’ From CBS Studios
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2017· 1 entry
Starred in the American-Polish independent drama film Maya Dardel, which screened at SXSW
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2008· 1 entry
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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2005· 1 entry
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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2002· 1 entry
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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1989· 1 entry
Olin was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Enemies, A Love Story, in which she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi death camp
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1988· 1 entry
Olin starred with Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche in her first major role in an English-speaking and internationally produced film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Ingmar Bergman Award (1980).
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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 also one of the two judges
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1979· 1 entry
Studied at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts (1976–1979).
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1955· 1 entry
Born 1955-03-22.
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