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.
Movie | Hope | 2025 | |
Movie | Firebrand | Katherine Parr | 2024-03-27 |
Movie | Birds Like Us | Huppu (voice) | 2022-06-30 |
Movie | Beckett | April Hanson | 2021-08-04 |
Movie | Blue Bayou | Kathy LeBlanc | 2021-09-10 |
Movie | Freak Shift | Diane Largo | 2020-08-28 |
Movie | The Glorias | Young Gloria Steinem | 2020-12-18 |
Movie | I Am Easy to Find | Her | 2019-04-22 |
Movie | Euphoria | Ines | 2018-02-01 |
Movie | Tomb Raider | Lara Croft | 2018-03-05 |
Movie | Moomins and the Winter Wonderland | Little My / Sorry-oo (Swedish version) (voice) | 2017-11-23 |
Movie | Tulip Fever | Sophia Sandvoort | 2017-07-13 |
Movie | Submergence | Danielle Flinders | 2017-09-22 |
Movie | Journey to the Oscars | Herself | 2016-02-26 |
Movie | The Light Between Oceans | Isabel Sherbourne | 2016-09-02 |
Movie | Jason Bourne | Heather Lee | 2016-07-27 |
Movie | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. | Gaby Teller | 2015-08-13 |
Movie | Ex Machina | Ava | 2015-01-21 |
Movie | Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Ingrid Bergman (voice) | 2015-08-27 |
Movie | Burnt | Anne Marie | 2015-10-02 |
Movie | The Magic Diner | Alicia | 2015-11-30 |
Movie | The Danish Girl | Gerda | 2015-11-27 |
Movie | Testament of Youth | Vera Brittain | 2014-10-14 |
Movie | Seventh Son | Alice Deane | 2014-12-12 |
Movie | Son of a Gun | Tasha | 2014-10-16 |
Movie | Hotel | Erika | 2013-09-06 |
Movie | The Fifth Estate | Anke Domscheit-Berg | 2013-10-11 |
Movie | A Royal Affair | Caroline Mathilde | 2012-03-29 |
Movie | Anna Karenina | Kitty | 2012-09-06 |
Movie | Game of Bitches | Alicia | 2011-01-01 |
Movie | The Crown Jewels | Fragancia Fernandez | 2011-06-29 |
Movie | Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want | Fredrika (segment "My Name Is Love") | 2010-04-26 |
Movie | Susan's Longing | Girl in Apartment | 2009-01-24 |
Movie | Pure | Katarina | 2009-10-22 |
Movie | My Name Is Love | Fredrika | 2008-03-08 |
Movie | The Rain | Dancer | 2007-01-24 |
Movie | Darkness of Truth | Sandra Svensson | 2007-08-08 |
Movie | Standing Outside Doors | Alicia | 2006-06-01 |
Movie | My Embalmed Mother | Ebba Du Rietz | 2002-01-02 |
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