Birth Date: Marth 22, 1956 Birth Place: Stockholm, Sweden Height: 5'10" Birth Name: Lena Maria Jonna Olin Marital Status: Lasse Hallström (1994 - present) Örjan Ramberg (? - ?) (divorced) Parents: Daughter of actor Stig Olin Siblings: Sister of actor Mats Olin Children: Son August b. 1986; daughter Tora, b. 1995. Sometimes credited as: Lena Olin-Hallström Trivia: Lena Olin-Hallström (1998) Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. For the role of Masha in "Enemies: A Love Story" (1989) Lena received the New York Film Critics Award for Best Actress as well as an Academy Award nomination. Flimography: Click here! to read about her other roles About Lena: Dark beauty who got middlebrow audiences in the U. S. all hot and bothered playing the sensualist Sabina in Philip Kaufman's film of Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). She enjoyed much prestige in Sweden prior to that, appearing frequently on stage (she is a member of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater) and in a number of films, including The Adventures of Picasso (1978) and two Ingmar Bergman films, Fanny and Alexander (1983) and After the Rehearsal (1984). Olin played another free spirit in 1989's Enemies, a Love Story which earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. Small wonder: Few actresses today radiate the earthy sexuality Olin projects with apparent effortlessness. In 1990 she was paired with Robert Redford in the Casablancameets-Castro flop Havana hindering her chances to become better known to mainstream American moviegoers. She's also known for not getting some highly touted roles: Much was made of her potential casting as Maria in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990); Olin lost out to Melanie Griffith. And she lost the part of Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992) to Michelle Pfeiffer. She has, however, costarred with Richard Gere in Mr. Jones (1993) and appeared in Romeo Is Bleeding (1994, her most outrageous and flamboy ant performance to date, as a terroristassassin).
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