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Who is Lena Olin?

Lena Olin was born on the 22nd of March, 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. She is both a highly acclaimed international actress and a former Miss Scandinavia 1975. Olin has been nominated for an Oscar in 1990 for her role as a Nazi concentration camp survivor in Enemies: a Love Story (1989) and a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Olins beauty has been extolled in almost Earth Goddess terms by film critic Roger Ebert a voluptuous, big breasted, tactile, and yet an unexploited part of nature. This review aside, Olins presence on the Silver Screen has occasionally approached the transcendence of the movie actresses of the Golden Age as her emotional range allows her to reach up to those light capturing, climactic moments that can be fixed into a still shot and sat side by side a Bogey and Bacall profile with absolute justice. Moreover, Olins eerily perfect technical skills were honed at Swedens National Academy of Dramatic Art from 1976 to 1979 and then by performing rigorous Shakespearean and classical drama with the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Sweden’s Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1980 to 1994, often under the direction of world renowned director Ingmar Bergman with whom she also worked on film.