Age: 71
female
Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born 22 March 1955) is a Swedish actress. She has received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Mentored by filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, she made her screen debut with a small role in his film Face to Face (1976). After graduating from the drama school, Olin joined the Royal Dramatic Theatre, followed by roles in Bergman's films Fanny and Alexander (1982) and After the Rehearsal (1984). She made her international breakthrough with a role of a free-spirited artist in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), which earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture. Olin garnered further critical acclaim for her portrayals of a Jewish survivor in the comedy-drama Enemies, A Love Story (1989), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an abused wife in the comedy-drama Chocolat (2000), for which she received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Her other film roles include The Adventures of Picasso (1978), Havana (1990), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), Mr. Jones (1993), The Ninth Gate (1999), Queen of the Damned (2002), Casanova (2005), The Reader (2008), Remember Me (2010), Maya Dardel (2017), and The Artist's Wife (2019). On television, Olin starred as KGB agent Irina Derevko on the spy thriller Alias (2002–2006), which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Her other television roles include the sitcom Welcome to Sweden (2014–2015), the drama series Riviera (2017–2020), and the drama series Hunters (2020–2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lena Olin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Lena Olin
Helga Andersen
for Helga Andersen in The Devil’s Star
Suggested by sepanta_kazemi
Oslo is sweating through a brutal summer when the first body turns up. A young woman lies in her apartment, staged with quiet precision. In her mouth, a small red five-pointed star. Not jewelry. Not a symbol of love. A signature. Detective Harry Hole returns to a department that barely trusts him. The case is high-profile, the city is on edge, and the pressure is political. Harry gets a new partner, a polished investigator from Security Police with perfect manners and unreadable motives. Together they follow a trail of victims who seem unrelated. Different neighborhoods. Different lives. One common detail. The star. Then the killings escalate. Each scene feels like a performance designed for an audience of one. Harry senses the murderer is not chasing attention. He’s testing the police. He’s testing Harry. And he’s hiding behind rules that only he understands. As Harry pushes into Oslo’s night world, the heat turns the city into a pressure cooker. Leads rot fast. Witnesses lie. Evidence points in two directions at once. Harry starts to suspect the worst. The killer is inside the investigation’s blind spot. When a private tragedy hits close to home, Harry breaks protocol and runs the case on instinct. He digs into old files, old grudges, and a pattern nobody wanted reopened. The more he learns, the clearer the trap becomes. Someone is manufacturing trust. Someone is writing the next crime scene in advance. And the final star is meant for Harry.
