Lena Olin born in Sweden, had already made a successful career as an actress
before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm directed
by Ingmar Bergman. Her father Stig Olin was also an actor and played in six of
Bergman's films. Lena also belongs to the Bergman "family". As a young
actress she played in the great classics of Shakespeare, Ibsen and Strindberg.
She made her international debut as a movie actress in Efter repetitionen (After
the rehearsal) directed by Bergman. In western Europe she became well known in
the political movie Unbearable Lightness of Being, The (1988), as Sabina, a story
about the Prague spring (1968). After coming to the USA she played mostly distinguished,
exotic temptresses, intelligent women and crude vamps. Bergman had developed
her artistic gift to play different human emotions and express them in a subtle
way. Sydney Pollack director of Out of Africa (1985) rewrote the scenario for
the movie Havanna especially for Lena. This explains why this film recalls associations
with the classic movie Casablanca (1942) starring Ingrid Bergman also from Sweden.
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