- Born
- Birth nameAlicia Amanda Vikander
- Nickname
- Mrs. Google
- Height5′ 5¾″ (1.67 m)
- Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer, and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one-quarter Finnish and had a maternal great-aunt who moved from Finland to Sweden to escape World War II. Vikander 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 Second Avenue (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 A Royal Affair (2012), receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination for her breakthrough. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotel (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.
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- SpouseMichael Fassbender(October 14, 2017 - present) (2 children)
- ParentsSvante Vikander
- RelativesAnton Vikander(Sibling)
- Natural olive skin
- One of her favorite experiences from the production of Anna Karenina (2012) was the filming that took place in the countryside outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. The temperatures dipped to -40 °C, and for five days she stayed in a cabin that didn't have hot water and only had benches instead of beds. Russian security guards protected her and co-star Domhnall Gleeson from wolves and bears that dominated the deserted area.
- Is the first Swede to win an Academy Award since Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).
- A trained ballet dancer, she studied ballet at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, but decided to pursue acting instead of ballet, following a few injuries and subsequent foot and back surgeries.
- Filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) she met her current husband, Michael Fassbender, who plays her husband in the movie.
- Was chosen for her part in A Royal Affair (2012) following a long casting process in which the casting directors were unable to find a fitting actress for the role of Queen Caroline Mathilde. In fact, the search produced such few results that the production almost was stalled. However, when they discovered Vikander didn't speak the language, Danish, that she was required to, she was still considered to be perfect for the part. The crew made her take intense language lessons over a period of two months. She succeed in mastering the language and the production was back on track.
- 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.
- 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.
- [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.
- 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 and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting.
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