Lena Olin

Lena Olin's path to Hollywood began far from it, on the stages of Stockholm. The Swedish actress was born in the city to actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin, and she trained at the Royal Theatre under the direction of Ingmar Bergman. As a young performer, she tackled the classic works of Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Strindberg before making her international film debut in Bergman's After the Rehearsal in 1984.

She gained wider recognition in Europe with a role in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a political drama set during the Prague Spring. After moving to the United States, Olin often played intelligent, exotic, and sometimes dangerous women. Director Sydney Pollack rewrote the screenplay for Havana, a film that echoed the classic Casablanca, specifically for her. In 1989, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Enemies, A Love Story. She later appeared in Chocolat, which was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her work.

On television, she took on the role of the delightfully sinister Irina Derevko in Alias, playing the mother of Jennifer Garner's character, and earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Olin stands 5'10" with a slim build, brown hair, and brown eyes. She has been active in the industry since 1976, a career spanning fifty years. She has two children, F. Auguste Rahmberg and Tora Hallstrom.