Alicia Vikander
Swedish actress and Academy Award winner celebrated for transformative performances across film and television.
Alicia Vikander - Personal Information
- Name: Alicia Vikander
- Date of Birth: October 3, 1988
- Place of Birth: Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
- Gender: Female
- Job Title: Actor
- Crew Jobs: Costume Design, Producer, Executive Producer
Biography
Alicia Amanda Vikander (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 (2014), a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016, Vikander was listed by Forbes in its 30 Under 30 list. She has since starred in the action film Jason Bourne (2016), the fantasy film The Green Knight (2021), the miniseries Irma Vep (2022), the historical drama Firebrand (2023), the horror comedy Rumours (2024) and the sci-fi thriller The Assessment (2024).
Filmography
A selection of Alicia Vikander's notable screen appearances across film and television.
- The Wizard of the Kremlin (2026) as Ksenia
- Nordic Design - A Love Story (TV - 2025) as Narrator (Voice)
- The Assessment (2025) as Virginia
- Rumours (2024) as Celestine Sproul
- Firebrand (2024) as Katherine Parr
- Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg (TV - 2022) as Self
- Irma Vep (TV - 2022) as Mira Harberg
- The Green Knight Documentary (2021) as Self
- Blue Bayou (2021) as Kathy LeBlanc
- Beckett (2021) as April Hanson
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