Background
Lena Endre was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland, and Trollbäcken, Tyresö.
Lena Endre was born in Lidingö, Stockholm County and grew up in Härnösand, Ångermanland, and Trollbäcken, Tyresö.
Endre graduated Stockholm Academy of the Performing Arts in 1986 and had her breakthrough in the Swedish television series The Department Store and Lorryin the 1980s.
Endre made her English-language debut in 2012, in Paul Thomas Anderson"s movie The Master, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Initially, she was studying Marine Biology before dropping out to work at a record store. She participated in amateur theater during this time.
She acted as a part of the Teater Sputnik and Inge Waern"s Theatre Studio theater groups in 1979.
In 1983, she was accepted to the Stockholm Academy of the Performing Arts. She left the cast of The Department Store after identifying too closely with her character.
Endre was hired by the Royal Dramatic Theatre in 1987. Prior to her role on The Department Store, she had a small part in the film The Inside Manitoba in 1984.
Since then she has acted in a number of television and film productions, primarily in Sweden and Norway.
She is 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 television series of that name. Endre also appeared in two films by Danish director Simon Staho, Dag och Natt (2004) and, for which she was nominated as Best Leading Actress at the Swedish film awards, "Guldbagge". More recently, Endre dramatized the character "Erika Berger," editor of the fictional investigative periodical Millenium in the trilogy of films—The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets" Nest (all 2009)—based on the eponymous trio of Stieg Larsson books
Endre made her English-language debut in Paul Thomas Anderson"s movie The Master, alongside Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Laura Dern.