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Alicia Vikander

Alicia Vikander

Birthday: 1988-10-03 | Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress and former dancer. Born and raised in Gothenburg, she began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The Göteborg Opera and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm and the School of American Ballet in New York. She began her professional acting career by appearing in Swedish short films and television series and first gained recognition in Northern Europe for her role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the TV drama Andra Avenyn (2008–10). Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She attracted widespread recognition in 2012 for portraying Princess Ekaterina "Kitty" Alexandrovna Shcherbatskaya in Joe Wright's film adaptation of Anna Karenina and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair, receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotell and appeared in the Julian Assange-biopic The Fifth Estate that same year. In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth, a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress) and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl, for which she received the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other awards.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Birds Like Us

as    Huppu (voice)

2022
Irma Vep

as    Mira Harberg

2021
Beckett

as    April Hanson

2021
Blue Bayou

as    Kathy LeBlanc

2021
The Green Knight

as    Lady / Essel

2021
Corona Film Club

as    Self

2020
The Glorias

as    Young Gloria Steinem

2019
2019
I Am Easy to Find

as    Her

2019
Euphoria

as    Ines

2019
Earthquake Bird

as    Lucy Fly

2019
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

as    Narrator (voice)

2018
Submergence

as    Danielle Flinders

2018
Tomb Raider

as    Lara Croft

2017
Tulip Fever

as    Sophia Sandvoort

2016
Jason Bourne

as    Heather Lee

2016
The Light Between Oceans

as    Isabel Sherbourne

2015
Seventh Son

as    Alice Deane

2015
Burnt

as    Anne Marie

2015
Ex Machina

as    Ava

2015
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

as    Gaby Teller

2015
The Danish Girl

as    Gerda Wegener

2015
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words

as    Ingrid Bergman (voice)

2015
Testament of Youth

as    Vera Brittain

2014
Son of a Gun

as    Tasha

2013
The Fifth Estate

as    Anke Domscheit-Berg

2012
A Royal Affair

as    Caroline Mathilde

2012
Anna Karenina

as    Kitty

2011
The Crown Jewels

as    Fragancia Fernandez

2009
Pure

as    Katarina