Lena Olin

She currently lives in New York with her husband and two children. Powell lives in Connecticut, USA, with her fifth husband, Dick Moore, and still performs today. Olin received immense critical acclaim for her part in Alias, and was rumored to have been offered a salary upwards of $100,000 per episode to remain part of the cast. She left the show after her first season, however, reportedly to spend more time with her family. Her stage roles include "South Pacific", "The Sound of Music", "Oklahoma!", "My Fair Lady", "Carousel", "The Girl Next Door and How She Grew", and "Irene". From 2002 to 2003, Olin appeared opposite Jennifer Garner in the American television series Alias. For her role in the series as Irina Derevko/Laura Bristow, she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2003. Since then Powell has continued to work in television, radio, and live performances. In 1994, she married Lasse Hallström, a film director with whom she worked in 2000 in Chocolat, giving one of the best perfomances of her career. By the end of the 1950s, Hollywood musicals began to lose popularity, and her film career ended.

Her first spouse was Örjan Ramberg, from whom she divorced. Her other films include: Rich, Young and Pretty (1951), Small Town Girl (1953), Three Sailors and a Girl (1953), Athena (1954), Deep in My Heart (1954), Hit the Deck (1955), and The Girl Most Likely (1957). Olin married twice. Her best know film is probably Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), which gave her the opportunity to play a more mature character than previous films. She appears in many different plays, from classic to contemporary. Powell got the chance to sing and dance with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding (1951), when she was brought in as a replacement for both June Allyson and Judy Garland. Olin is today a prominent member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, where she began her career as young actress. Her first MGM musical was Holiday in Mexico (1946), which brought her to the public's attention, and she was later billed as the co-star in several films including A Date With Judy (1948), and Nancy Goes to Rio (1950).

In 1989, she earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress Enemies: A Love Story, in which she portrayed the survivor of a Nazi camp. She appeared in her first film, Song of the Open Road (1944), at age 15. In 1988, she played in her first American film opposite Daniel Day-Lewis, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and became a well-known and respected actress. Born Suzanne Burce in Portland, Oregon, USA, she sang on the radio as a child, and performed in theater before her film career began in 1944. The year before she had appeared in the Swedish film Fanny and Alexander, also directed by Bergman. She was the petite blonde with an operatic singing voice in many MGM musicals in the 1940s and 1950s. Olin's international debut in an English-spoken film, again directed by Bergman, was in 1984 in After the Rehearsal. Jane Powell (born April 1, 1928) is an American actress.

Later she acted at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, directed by Bergman. It was he who casted her for the first time, after she had not passed her first audition because of her shyness. After studying acting at the drama school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Olin performed on stage classic plays of Shakespeare and Ibsen and appeared in smaller roles of several Swedish films directed by Bergman. Her father was also an actor and had appeared in several of Ingmar Bergman's films.

She was born in Stockholm. Lena Olin (born March 22, 1956) is a Swedish-born actress. Face to Face (1976). The Adventures of Picasso (1978).

Love (1980). One Week Bachelors (1982). Fanny and Alexander (1983). After the Rehearsal (1984).

Flight North (1986). A Matter of Life and Death (1986). The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). Friends (1988).

S/Y Joy (1989). Enemies: A Love Story (1989). Havana (1990). Romeo Is Bleeding (1993).

Jones (1993). Mr. The Night and the Moment (1995). Night Falls on Manhattan (1997).