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Alicia Vikander

Actress / Film Actress / Film Producer / Voice Actress | * 10/03/1988 (35) | Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län (Sweden)
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Alicia Amanda Vikander (Swedish: [aˈlǐːsɪa vɪˈkǎnːdɛr] ; born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards. Born and raised in Gothenburg, Vikander began acting as a child in minor stage productions at the Gothenburg opera house and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. She began her acting career in Swedish short films and television series and first gained recognition for her role in the drama series Andra Avenyn (2008–2010). She made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She gained wider recognition in 2012 for playing Kitty in Joe Wright's adaptation of Anna Karenina and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the Danish film A Royal Affair. Vikander achieved global recognition for her roles as Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (201... ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Thriller

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When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with G ...

The Danish Girl

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2015 | 3.8/5 | 1h 59min
Drama
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Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of ...

Testament of Youth

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2014 | 3.7/5 | 2h 9min
History, Drama, War
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Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives a ...

Ex Machina

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2015 | 3.8/5 | 1h 48min
Drama, Science Fiction
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At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agen ...

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

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2015 | 3.5/5 | 1h 56min
Comedy, Action, Adventure
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Awards & Nominations for Alicia Vikander

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Guldbagge Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress European Film Award for Best Actress
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Movies with Alicia Vikander as Actress(43)

as Katharine Parr2024 Firebrand
as Huppu (voice)2022 Birds Like Us
as herself2021 Corona Film Club
as Lady / Essel2021 The Green Knight
as Kathy LeBlanc2021 Blue Bayou
as April2021 Beckett
as Young Gloria Steinem2020 The Glorias
as Her2019 I Am Easy to Find
as Faith2019 One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Lucy Fly2019 Earthquake Bird
as Lara Croft2018 Tomb Raider
as Ines2018 Euphoria
as Narrator (voice)2018 Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
as Alicia2018 The Magic Diner Pt.II
as Sophia Sandvoort2017 Tulip Fever
as Danielle Flinders2017 Submergence
as Isabel Sherbourne2016 The Light Between Oceans
as Heather Lee2016 Jason Bourne
as herself2015 Through the Looking Glass: Making 'Ex Machina'
as Gaby Teller2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Gerda Wegener2015 The Danish Girl
as Anne Marie2015 Burnt
as Alicia2015 The Magic Diner
as Ingrid Bergman (voice)2015 Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
as Ava2015 Ex Machina
as Vera Brittain2014 Testament of Youth
as Tasha2014 Son of a Gun
as Alice Deane2014 Seventh Son
as Erika2013 Hotel
as Anke Domscheit-Berg2013 The Fifth Estate
as Caroline Mathilde2012 A Royal Affair
as Kitty Shcherbatskaya2012 Anna Karenina
as Fragancia Fernandez2011 The Crown Jewels
as Alicia2011 Game of Bitches
as Fredrika (segment "My Name Is Love")2010 Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want
as Katarina2009 Pure
as Girl in Apartment2009 Susan's Longing
as Fredrika2008 My Name Is Love
as Dancer2007 The Rain
as Linda2007 Levande föda
as Sandra Svensson2007 Darkness of Truth
as Alicia2006 Standing Outside Doors
as Ebba Du Rietz2002 My Embalmed Mother

TV Shows/Series with Alicia Vikander as Actress(4)

as Mira Harberg2022 Irma Vep
as herself2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt2007 Second Avenue
as herself2007 The Graham Norton Show

Movies with Alicia Vikander as Crew(1)

Production/Producer2018 Euphoria

TV Shows/Series with Alicia Vikander as Crew(1)

Production/Executive Producer2022 Irma Vep

Additional Information

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Citizenship: Sweden
Born: Monday, 10/03 1988 (October) in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län (Sweden) (current age: 35 years + 199 days)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: Danish (DA), English (EN), Swedish (SV, native language)
Educated at: Royal Swedish Ballet
Spouses (current/former): Michael Fassbender
Children: Mark Fassbender
Father: Svante Vikander
Mother: Maria Fahl Vikander
Other names for Alicia Vikander (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Alicia Amanda Vikander"
"Алісія Вікандер"
"Алисия Викандер"
"أليسيا فيكاندير"
"알리시아 비칸데르"
"アリシア・ヴィキャンデル"
"艾莉西亞·維肯特"
"Αλίσια Βικάντερ"
"艾丽西亚·维坎德"
"آلیسیا ویکاندر"
"Αλίσια Αμάντα Βικάντερ"
Alicia Vikander frequently works together with these people:
Lisa Langseth (6x, Crew)
David Färdmar (6x, Crew)
Nina Gold (5x, Crew)
Stina Gardell (5x, Crew)
Guy Ritchie (4x, Crew)
Kate Hudson (4x, Actress)
Lionel Wigram (4x, Crew)
David Bonneville (4x, Crew)
Tobias Rönnertz (4x, Crew)
Niclas Larsson (4x, Crew)
David Lowery (4x, Crew)
Rob Hardy (4x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:182, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 04/14/2024