Alicia Vikander

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Birthday:

3 October 1988, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden

Birth Name:

Alicia Amanda Vikander

Height:

166 cm

Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl-Vikander, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. She is of Swedish and one quarter Finnish descent. Alicia 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 (2007). Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2009), 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 (2012), and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film En kongelig affære (2012), receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for her breakthrough. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotell (2013)and appeared in the Julian Assange biopic The Fifth Estate (2013) that same year. In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014), an AI in Ex Machina (2014), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), for which she received the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. Show less «

I'd love to continue to work in Europe and the US. What I'm looking for is the right film and if that's a big studio film, or a tiny film be...Show more »

I'd love to continue to work in Europe and the US. What I'm looking for is the right film and if that's a big studio film, or a tiny film being shot in a few days in Europe, that's not what I'm thinking about - it's about the project and who I'm going to do it with. Show less «

It's almost a kick that I'm looking for. I like to push myself, find new sides of myself and see how different the characters are that I can...Show more »

It's almost a kick that I'm looking for. I like to push myself, find new sides of myself and see how different the characters are that I can create with my craft. Show less «

[on being a brown-eyed, brown-haired, olive-skinned Swede] I always get that question - where are your parents really from? Do you know wher...Show more »

[on being a brown-eyed, brown-haired, olive-skinned Swede] I always get that question - where are your parents really from? Do you know where your dad's from? [My parents] are both from very small villages, from up north and south of Sweden. I'm [also] a quarter Finnish, but that doesn't really make me much darker. Show less «

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that's such a big part of anyone's life in general, that's such a humane thing.

Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad an...Show more »

Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting. Show less «

[W Magazine - March 2015] Next year, the Oscars will be interesting. If all goes well, I'm going to have three films in contention. I've had...Show more »

[W Magazine - March 2015] Next year, the Oscars will be interesting. If all goes well, I'm going to have three films in contention. I've had many years of working a lot without being in the public eye. And that's been good. But by this time next year, I think things are going to change. I expect to be busy. I'm ready to be a bit more known. Show less «

[on photographs of her private moments with her friends and boyfriend] It was a shock to meet up with friends, then days later see a picture...Show more »

[on photographs of her private moments with her friends and boyfriend] It was a shock to meet up with friends, then days later see a picture of you all, sitting outside a café, splashed across the media. You realize that someone was there, watching, while you were having a coffee with your friends. And you just feel violated. Show less «

[The New York Times - February 9, 2016] During production of The Danish Girl (2015), the filmmakers were obsessed with me not looking Scandi...Show more »

[The New York Times - February 9, 2016] During production of The Danish Girl (2015), the filmmakers were obsessed with me not looking Scandinavian and I was like, 'I'm the only Scandinavian in the whole film.' They paled my skin, to make me lighter. People say that I'm tanned, but that's my natural color. Show less «