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Lena Olin
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Sweden's only real movie star, Lena Olin, is planning to get away from the big city life and move to the countryside. She plans to build her dream house on a lot in the middle of Falsterbo, a tiny idyll in Skåne. Far away from all the sparkling cocktail parties. Here she wants to be able to rest after hard Hollywood productions.
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Synopsis: Nadja (Lena Olin) is a television reporter who turns down an assignment in Japan to seek revenge against a philandering physician in this uneven drama. Stefan (Svante Martin) is the doctor who had been Nadja's lover 15 years ago before he left without explanation and married another woman. NadjaRead More
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MOM'S AWAY: Alias villainess Lena Olin seems to be taking her role as Jennifer Garner's absentee mom, Irina Derevko, a little too literally. As reported in the new issue of TV Guide magazine, the actress nixed a deal to return this season despite the fact that, as a source close to the negotiations puts it, "every single one of her demands were met by ABC and the producers." Among her [I]nitial requests: "Sharon Stone-type money," says an insider, referring to the unprecedented $100,000-per-episode salary the Basic Instinct star reportedly pulled in for her recent Practice stint. ABC declined to comment, as did Olin's camp, but Alias exec producer J.J. Abrams is holding out hope that Olin will be back. "[Irina] remains a critical piece of the puzzle."
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A powerful and beautiful Swedish actress in the tradition of Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann, Lena Olin first came to prominence in Sweden as a "Bergman actress," working in plays and films directed by the great Ingmar Bergman. The child of actors (her father, Stig Olin, appeared in Bergman films during the 1940s and 50s), she gravitated to the profession in an attempt to overcome her crippling shyness, and though she failed her first audition for the Royal Dramatic Theater school, Bergman saw enough to cast her in a small role in his "Face to Face" (1976). She went on to appear in "The Adventures of Picasso" (1978) and acted for Bergman in "Fanny and Alexander" (1982) and in "After the Rehearsal" (1984), in the latter playing Anna, a character written expressly for her. Her role as an actress who infuriates her director by getting pregnant while working on one of August Strindberg's plays prefigured actual events when her own pregnancy would complicate a Bergman production of Strindberg's "A Dream Play".
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The Academy Award-nominated Swedish actress Lena Olin was named as Lena Maria Jonna Olin at her birth. Born on March 22, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden was born in the family of greater talents with Swedish actor Stig Olin as her father. He had been a part of several of Ingmar Bergman’s films.
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Previously, Olin was nominated for an Academy Award and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress starring in Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story. Her additional film credits include Peter Medak's Romeo Is Bleeding, Mike Figgis' Mr. Jones, Sydney Pollack's Havana, The Queen of the Damned based on the Anne Rice novel and Ron Shelton's Hollywood Homicide.
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