Biography
Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Mentored by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, she made her screen debut with a small role in his film Face to Face (1976). After graduating from the drama school, Olin joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre, followed by roles in Bergman's films Fanny and Alexander (1982) and After the Rehearsal (1984). She made her international ...
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Complete Filmography

Spaceman
2024
as Zdena
Six months into a solo mission, a lonely astronaut confronts the cracks in his marriage with help from a mysterious creature he discovers on his ship.

Upgraded
2024
as Catherine
Ana is an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art world while trying to impress her demanding boss Claire. When she's upgraded to first class...

One Life
2023
as Grete Winton
British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of ...

Second Act
2023
as Eva
The great star of the Royal Dramatic Theatre has fallen ill, and must be cared for at home by a talkative, insecure woman who, over time, finds it dif...

Hilma
2022
as Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) is an important part of art history and one of the first ever painters of abstract art. However, unlike the work of many of...

The Jonsson Gang
2021
as Anita
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become law-abiding citizens and Sickan has t...

The Artist's Wife
2020
as Claire Smythson
Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheime...

Adam
2020
as Yevgeina
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.

Intensive Care
2020
as Margaret
A woman on the brink of a breakdown kidnaps an abused boy, and they embark on a life-changing adventure together – as the cops and their families sear...

Bergman Revisited
2019
As we celebrate Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest directors of all time, we asked how his legacy has affected Swedish filmmakers of today. Bergman R...

Hasse & Tage - En kärlekshistoria
2019
as Self
Hasse and Tage were best friends for over 30 years. Their films, shows, songs and books influenced an entire nation and were the glue that held people...

Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
as Self
The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and ...

Bergman's Reliquarium
2018
A visual association play into Ingmar Bergman's deepest secrets. A pop video attempting to connect Bergman's various works by borrowing, mirroring, cr...

Maya Dardel
2017
as Maya
An internationally respected poet announces she is going to kill herself and needs an heir and executor. Young writers drive up the mountain to compet...

Trespassing Bergman
2013
as Self
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm...

The Devil You Know
2013
as Kathryn Vale
Kathryn Vale is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attemp...

Night Train to Lisbon
2013
as Older Estefania
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which...

The Hypnotist
2012
as Simone Bark
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a ps...

Remember Me
2010
as Diane Hirsch
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally ...

The Reader
2008
as Rose Mather
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

Awake
2007
as Lilith Beresford
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the oper...

Casanova
2005
as Andrea
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp...

Bang Bang Orangutang
2005
as Nina
An overworked and stressed out man in the middle of his career causes the worst tragedy that can happen to a family...

Hollywood Homicide
2003
as Ruby
Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonligh...

The United States of Leland
2003
as Marybeth Fitzgerald
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfrien...

Darkness
2002
as Maria
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to de...

Queen of the Damned
2002
as Maharet
Lestat finds acceptance in a tattooed and pierced world, rekindling the desires of all-powerful Akasha.

Ignition
2002
as Faith Mattis
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years

Chocolat
2000
as Josephine Muscat
A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they r...

The Ninth Gate
1999
as Liana Telfer
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates ...

Mystery Men
1999
as Dr. Anabel Leek
When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superhe...

Hamilton
1998
as Tessie
A government agent leads his team's effort to stop Russian rebels from smuggling a stolen missile through Sweden.

Polish Wedding
1998
as Jadzia
The film centers on a big Polish family. Jadzia is the mother and the ruler of the Pzoniak family (she has five children). Though she's happily marrie...

Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
as Peggy Lindstrom
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Lumière & Company
1995
as (segment "Lasse Hallström")
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under condition...

The Night and the Moment
1995
as La marchesa
The Night and the Moment is a 1995 erotic drama. A writer (Dafoe) is invited to the house of a noblewoman (Olin) who adores free-thinkers. He attempts...

Mr. Jones
1993
as Dr. Elizabeth 'Libbie' Bowen
The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his t...

Romeo Is Bleeding
1993
as Mona Demarkov
A corrupt cop gets in over his head when he tries to assassinate a beautiful Russian hit-woman.

Havana
1990
as Bobby Duran
During the revolution, a high-stakes gambler arrives in Cuba seeking to win big in poker games. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with the wif...

Hebriana
1990
as Lena
During a midsummer weekend in the eighties a family gather in their summerhouse in the archipelago. The memory of the dead family father surfaces when...

Enemies, a Love Story
1989
as Masha
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

S/Y Joy
1989
as Annika Larsson
A young couple decides to sail around the world, hoping to get over the death of their young son. They set off in a used sailboat, whose previous owne...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
as Sabina
Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to...

Komedianter
1987
as Ann
Describes a few artistic friends in the Swedish countryside, who learn how life and reality outweigh the poem.

Friends
1987
as Sue
John is a legal assistant who is looking forward to marriage to his fiancee Sally, but his daydream is interrupted when a model plane crashes through ...

A Matter of Life and Death
1986
as Nadja Melander
"Life and Death" - A female reporter intended to go on a reporting trip about childbirth to Japan, declines the offer. Instead, she visits a maternity...

Flight North
1986
as Karin
Johanna has fled Nazi Germany to visit a friend in Finland, and from there she continues on to her friend's family's estate. Once at the estate, Johan...

Glasmästarna
1986
as The lady with the dog
Silent about two clumsy glaziers.

After the Rehearsal
1984
as Anna Egerman (older)
Rational, exacting, and self-controlled theater director, Henrik Vogler, often stays after rehearsal to think and plan. On this day, Anna comes back, ...

Fanny and Alexander
1982
as Rosa
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies...

One-Week Bachelors
1982
as Nina
Gary's wife goes away for a week and Gary expects a week of hard work at the office. After having left her at the airport, he misses the bus. But the ...

Pappa är död
1982
as Berit
Jan-Olof has an unresolved relationship with his father, and during the days leading up to the funeral, he tries to find out who the father really was...

The Adventures of Picasso
1978
as Dolores
A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before an...

Tabu
1977
as Flicka på båten
Solidarity with the border people. Equal rights for the sexual deviants. Kristoffer Lohman is a young solicitor who collects stories and knowledge of...

Face to Face
1976
as Shop Assistant (uncredited)
Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the co...