lenapaoLena Olin:”Biography” seg2-parte
- Lena Olin Miss Scandinavia
Continuacion Lena Olin.Miss Scandinavia.
When She was 19,Lena finally admited to hersecret desire to become an actress.After auditioning three times and being encouraged by Ingmar Bergman,a lifelong friend of the Olin family,not to give up,She was finally admitted to the state´s School for Scenic Education,located a Stone´s throw from the birthplace of Greta Garbo.
- Lena Olin en el Homenaje a Greta Garbo
Ingmar Bergman would later have a strong influence on her career both in theater and film.During the years role in drama School She also had her first significant role in a movie-Picassos Aventyr(The Adventures of Picasso).
Under Bergman´s tutelage,Lena honed her skills,sharpening her natural,but raw,talent into technical perfection and al last,finding that the woman herself found it difficult to express.Acting was her way of communicating something to the world.
Adventure of Picassos
Olin´s stage debut came in 1980,with a role in Ben Jonson´s Alkenisten(The Alchemist)and was followed by role after role.It was in 1984´s King Lear by Willian Shakespeare that Lena cught the attention of Bertil Ohlsson,the executive producer of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”.He caught Lena´s portrayal of the good Cordelia in a London performance and returned to America to tell producer,Saul Zaentz,who later found himself seated next to her at a dinner party in Sweden….a dinner party that Lena almost didn´t attend.
Pregnant with her first child,a son,August,with Swedish actor Orjan Ramberg,Lena´s firts choice had been to stay at home .”I was in the late stages of my pregnancy and I didn´t find anything nice enough to wear to a party”.(Vecko Revy,1986) but at the last minute She decided to attend,and Zaentz was impressed by her.Next,Philip Kaufman,the film´s director,flew to Stockholm to meet with her,and the rest,as they say in history.Comred to Garbo,and oncehailed as the second coming of Ingrid Bergman,Lena Olin exploded on to the American film scene dressed in little more than her underwear.In one of the sexiest scenes in cinematic history,She crawled across an upturned mirror and forever changed the way moviegoers would view an objet as innocuous as a bowler hat.
Lena y Auguts su hijo
Lena y Auguts su hijo
Already an established actress in her native Sweden,with an impressive resume and the distinction of being of acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman´s favorites,Lena was thrust upon the international film scene at time in her life wen most actresses would be looking to settle down,having established their careers and in many cases,seen threir “heyday” come and gone.
In her early thirties,and with a brand new baby in tow,Lena seemed almost unprepared at times for the attention he aped uponher.Although She´d expressed a desire to move beyond her theatrical roots,Lena had not specifically chosen international stardom and more than once expressed that She could easily be just as content tucked away in her modest flat,working as She always had and being mamma to newborn son,August.
- Lena Olin en sus comiensos teatro
- Lena Olin en sus comiensos teatro
In a 1990 interview with the magazine GQ,Lena is quoted as saying,”I´m fine.My life was fine before the Americans Kind of seduced me to come and do film.I never aimed for this.I don´t have to do anything I wouldn´t like to do,because I have work at home.If I ever started to feel that this is it,this is whant I´m going to do with my life,then I would go home,immediately because then it would be dangerous”. Fortunately,She decided to stick with it,giving audiences a wealth of characters as intriguing and enigmatic as the lady herself.
Starning in roles such as the sexy,free-spirited.Sabina in Philip Kaufman´s adaptation of Milan Kundera´s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”,the tortured Masha of Paul Mazursky´s “Enemies,A Love Story” and the idealistic revolutionary Bobby Duran in Sydney Pollack´s lavish production of “Havana”,Lena quiskly established herself as a superb dramatic actress,and proved ,a Garbo had done so many years before her,that you didn´t always need brillant dialogue to captivate and mesmerize your audience. These early performances garnered Olin critical acclaim as well,as She reccived a Golden Globe nomination in 1988 for her role as Sabina,as well as an Academy Award nomination the following year for her turn as holocaust survivor,Masha,in “Enemies.
Lena Olin en diferentes roles
Lena Olin en diferentes roles
(She would win the New York Film Critics Award for Enemies instead).
Mr Jones,Alias,Havana.
Hollywood Departament.
Casanova,ect.
Choosing to remain based at home in Stockholm,Lena continued to deliver spot-on performances,choosing her roles carefully and relying on her own instincts to lead her down the correct path.In a 1987,article featured in the Swedish magazine Vecko Revyn,it was said,”Lena prefers intuitions and categories.
I don´t need to find explanations,not regarding my self,the world or why it is the way it is.Not as long as I have a great feeling that drives me.It´s something that just grows strunger.Something I can´t explain….you just have to follow what feels right.I believe that the moment,which can´t be explained nor rationalized-that´s life,it has to be.And if you miss that,you miss every thing that´s beautiful”.
