Lena Endre

Acting

Lena Endre

Born 1955-07-08 · Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden

Lena Endre (born 8 July 1955) is a Swedish actress. She was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County, and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland and Trollbäcken, Tyresö. She had her breakthrough in the Swedish TV-series Varuhuset and Lorry in the 1980s. Since then she has acted in a number of TV-series and movies, both in Sweden and Norway. She is perhaps best known for her part in the Liv Ullmann film Trolösa (2000) as well as her role as Katarina, the love interest for Wallander in the second TV series of that name. She has appeared in two films by Danish director Simon Staho, Dag och Natt and Himlens Hjärta for which she was nominated as Best Leading Actress at the Swedish film awards, "Guldbagge". Endre has been married to the Swedish director Richard Hobert since 2000. She has two children from an earlier marriage with the actor Thomas Hanzon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lena Endre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting credits

Kingsman: The Golden Circle poster
6.9

When an attack on the Kingsman headquarters takes place and a new villain rises, Eggsy and Merlin are forced to work together with the American agency known as the Statesman to save the world.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

2017

Sentimental Value poster
7.5

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

Sentimental Value

2025

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo poster
7.5

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

2009

The Girl Who Played with Fire poster
7.0

Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.

The Girl Who Played with Fire

2009

The Master poster
7.1

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

The Master

2012

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest poster
7.1

After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

2009

A Hustler's Diary poster
7.1

Metin is a small time hustler in a Stockholm suburb, filled with big dreams but bogged down by the circular world of street crime. Things change when his secret diary becomes a hot item for a posh book publisher, and Metin must decide if he's really up to the challenge that is leaving his criminal life behind.

A Hustler's Diary

2017

My Father Marianne poster
6.2

Hanna's world turns upside down when her dad, the priest, reveals that he wants to be a woman.

My Father Marianne

2020

With Every Heartbeat poster
7.2

After they meet at their parent's engagement party, Mia and Frida are intrigued by and attracted to one another, despite Mia's own upcoming engagement to Tim. Mia must decide whether to continue her life with Tim or to follow her heart with Frida.

With Every Heartbeat

2011

Pelle Moves to Komfusenbo poster
7.5

When you are four years old it is tough to be unfairly accused of stealing your father's favourite fountain pen. There is nothing else for Pelle but to leave home and go off by himself, all the way to Komfusenbo, way down at the bottom of the garden.

Pelle Moves to Komfusenbo

1990

Heaven's Heart poster
5.4

Two couples, old friends, end up in a heated debate over adultery at a dinner party.

Heaven's Heart

2008

Bergman: A Year in a Life poster
7.4

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films and produced four plays and a TV movie while juggling with a complicated private life.

Bergman: A Year in a Life

2018

Faithless poster
6.6

Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the affair, Marianne moves in with her lover. But she is tormented by Markus' decision not to let her have custody of their daughter. Finally Markus announces he may have a solution to the stalemate, but this leads to deception, lies and ultimately, tragedy.

Faithless

2000

Quiet Life poster
6.7

A refugee family in Sweden faces trauma after their youngest daughter falls into an unexplained coma when denied asylum. Parents struggle to find a cure, resilience tested amid difficult circumstances.

Quiet Life

2025

Resan poster
NR

Music short film by and with singer Eva Dahlgren.

Resan

1987

Senses poster
NR

When the conductor suddenly collapses in front of the audience and the orchestra, it’s only the start of a desparate fight for life and loss of senses. When vision goes dim, sound hazy and skin no longer reacts to touch, panic becomes clear far beyond the silver screen.

Senses

2016

Kristin Lavransdatter poster
5.0

The daughter of a prominent medieval Norway landowner, Kristin grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. As she accepts the fact that she has been arranged to marry the son of another landowner, Kristin's beauty, innocence and purity evokes violent emotions around her: envy, lust, murder, revenge. She seeks refuge in a convent, awaiting marriage. Here, the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. However, their love cannot be private, and suddenly Kristin is the centre of a scandal.

Kristin Lavransdatter

1995

Wallander: The Courier poster
5.4

After the murder of a motorcyclist, an investigation reveals that bikers are being used as drug couriers from Denmark to Sweden and that the killing was part of a cartel power struggle.

Wallander: The Courier

2009

The Best Intentions poster
7.0

In this film about Ingmar Bergman's parents, Henrik Bergman is studying for the priesthood and trying to make ends meet when he encounters the lovely, affluent Anna. Despite their social differences, Henrik and Anna fall in love, wed and move to the country. They lead a quiet life as Henrik works as a priest, but it isn't long before the simple people and plain surroundings make Anna long for a more lavish lifestyle, which causes marital stress.

The Best Intentions

1992

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5.3

A New York Times correspondent based in Sweden travels to Istanbul with his daughter on a secret mission.

Istanbul

1989

Wallander: The Collector poster
4.6

A young woman is killed and robbed in her apartment. The trail leads to her indebted ex-boyfriend, a bouncer. In the investigation, the police officer Pontus notices that his colleague is nervous. Isabell carries around a dark secret: one of the suspects, in this case, has a means of pressure against her in her hand. Commissioner Wallander has a great deal on the capable young policewoman, whose loyalty to her fatherly superior is subjected to a hard test of endurance.

Wallander: The Collector

2010

In the Presence of a Clown poster
7.0

In 1925, eccentric inventor and Franz Schubert devotee Carl Åkerblom is confined to a psychiatric ward in Uppsala after attempting to murder his fiancée. Obsessed with death, music, and the future of cinema, he joins forces with a fellow patient to create a “living talkie,” an experimental film performance with live-spoken dialogue. As the project unfolds, art, madness, and mortality collide in a tragicomic reflection on creativity and human frailty.

In the Presence of a Clown

1998

Wallander: The Leak poster
5.9

The seemingly random murder of a jogger in woodland and the detonation of car bombs in central Ystad are but diversions to busy the police whilst a security van are robbed of 15 million kroner. Isabelle and Portus witness this and give chase but are attacked by the criminals and hospitalized. Given the security firm's meticulous contingency plan Wallander suspects a leak from the inside and aims for Micke Sterner, a compulsive gambler and the only staff member to know the encoded transit schedules. But some private sleuthing by over-worked Svartman, who has found the robbers' den, and Wallander's suspicions of an ex-cop turned security officer with connections to the firm provide the real break-through.

Wallander: The Leak

2009

True Moments poster
4.5

By chance Erik meets Viivi, an Estonian violinist playing in the Stockholm subway. They start an intense romance. Erik's mother dislikes the relationship, not having forgotten her escape from Estonia during the war. She reveals facts from the past and Erik finds out that his Swedish father adopted him. His real father was an Estonian nazi. Viivi has grown up in communist Estonia where her father was a party member and worked for the KGB.

True Moments

1998