Lena Olin
Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olinis a Swedish actress. She has been nominated for several acting awards, including a Golden Globe for The Unbearable Lightness of Beingand an Academy Award for Enemies, A Love Story. Other well-known films in which she has appeared include Chocolat, directed by her husband Lasse Hallström, Queen of the Damned, Casanovaand The Reader. Olin was also a main cast member in the second seasonof the television series Alias. Olin starred in the Swedish sitcom Welcome to Sweden...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 March 1955
CityStockholm, Sweden
CountrySweden
It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.
In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.
I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.
It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.
By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'
I consume music the way other people consume movies.
My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.