Irene Lindh

{{short description|Swedish actress and singer (born 1945)}}

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| birthname = Lena Irene Lindh

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|10|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

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| nationality = Swedish

| occupation = Actress, voice actress, singer

| yearsactive = 1967–present

| spouse = Bernt Sisth

| children = Maria Lindh (1969–2011){{cite news |url=https://www.dn.se/arkiv/familj/maria-lindh/ |newspaper=Dagens Nyheter |title=Maria Lindh |first=Berit |last=Gullberg |date=2011-05-14 |access-date=3 January 2016 |language=Swedish}}

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Lena Irene Lindh (born 13 October 1945) is a Swedish stage and film actress and singer.

Lindh was born in Stockholm. She got her start in acting at eleven years of age at Vår teater, a children's theatre in Stockholm.{{Cite web |title=Irene Lindh |url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=169793 |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Svensk filmdatabas |language=sv}} Lindh studied at the Royal Dramatic Training Academy from 1964 to 1967.{{cite web |url=http://www.dramaten.se/Medverkande/Skadespelare/Lindh-Irene/ |title=Irene Lindh |publisher=Royal Dramatic Theatre |language=sv |accessdate=5 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717032225/http://www.dramaten.se/Medverkande/Skadespelare/Lindh-Irene/ |archive-date=17 July 2014 |url-status=dead }} She is best known to international audiences for her role as Jenny Hultin in Arne Dahl: Misterioso, a Swedish television crime series.[http://www.theartsdesk.com/tv/arne-dahl-blinded-man-part-one-bbc-four The Arts Desk: Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man - Part One, BBC Four], 7 April 2013; accessed 2 May 2013.

Since her acting school days, Lindh has worked at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm; her first performance was as an extra in Troilus and Cressida in 1967. She has played a range of roles at the Dramatic Theatre, including Albine in Britannicus in 1976, Œnone in Phèdre in 2006, Mistress Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor in 2009, and the Duchess of York in Richard III in 2014.

Lindh has also worked as a voice actor, and provided the voice of Petunia Dursley when the Harry Potter films were dubbed into Swedish. She is the Swedish voice of Zira in The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. She is also a singer, and has released a record with Carl Jonas Love Almqvist's Songes.{{cite web|url=http://sverigesradio.se/sida/avsnitt/787626?programid=4802 |title=Möt Iréne Lindh - skådespelerska och sångare |publisher=Sveriges Radio |date=30 September 2016 |language=sv |accessdate=5 October 2016}}