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Lena Olin first came to the attention of American audiences in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being, for which she received a Golden Globe Award nomination. Her recent film credits include the Academy Award-nominated Chocolat for husband Lasse Hollstr?m, Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, Kinka Usher's Mystery Men, Theresa Connelly's Polish Wedding and Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan.

In 2003, she crossed over to the small screen, joining the cast of the critically acclaimed ABC drama Alias and received an Emmy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Previously, Olin was nominated for an Academy Award and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress starring in Paul Mazursky's Enemies: A Love Story. Her additional film credits include Peter Medak's Romeo Is Bleeding, Mike Figgis' Mr. Jones, Sydney Pollack's Havana, The Queen of the Damned based on the Anne Rice novel and Ron Shelton's Hollywood Homicide.

Born in Sweden, Olin's career started at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm where she was directed by Ingmar Bergman, playing in the classics of Shakespeare, Ibsen and Strindberg. She made her international debut as a movie actress in Bergman's After The Rehearsal and went on to appear in his Fanny and Alexander.

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