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 Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, V?stra G?talands l?n, 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 2. Alicia began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The G?teborg 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 Bj?rn-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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Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, V?stra G?talands l?n, 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 2. Alicia began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The G?teborg 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 Bj?rn-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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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.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.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.Filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) she met her current husband, Michael Fassbender, who plays her husband in the movie.Is the first Swede to win an Academy Award since Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).Dropped out of both Assassin's Creed (2016) and The Circle (2017) to do Jason Bourne (2016) instead. She was replaced by Ariane Labed in "Assassin's Creed" and by Emma Watson in "The Circle".The directors she dreams to work with are Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick and Quentin Tarantino.Her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, instead of Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Danish Girl (2015), was seen by many as a critical category fraud, as her character, Gerda, has more screen time and more dialogue than Eddie Redmayne's character, Einar/Lili. Vikander has 73 minutes of screen time, 61.7% of the movie's length. Distributor Focus Features decided to campaign for Vikander as supporting actress because they thought it would increase her chances of winning.Director Tom Hooper delayed production of The Danish Girl (2015) until after Alicia finished filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) to secure her for the role of Gerda.Auditioned for the part of Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). She worked on her English and made tapes of herself playing different characters, hoping to land a part in an American movie. The tapes were sent to casting directors in the UK. After meeting with the casting directors, she was en route to the airport when she received the call she had been waiting for: executives at Universal wanted to send her to Los Angeles to screen-test for the part of Snow White. "I was on the phone crying at a Starbucks," Vikander recalled. "People thought I was having a breakup with my boyfriend! I said, "No, it's good news! I'm going to have a career!'". She didn't get the part, however; it went to Kristen Stewart.Got the part of Kitty in Anna Karenina (2012) after Saoirse Ronan turned it down, while she got the part of Alice in Seventh Son (2014) after Jennifer Lawrence backed out of the production.Beat out her Tulip Fever (2017) co-star Cara Delevingne for the role of Lara in Tomb Raider (2018).Is one of six Swedish actors to be nominated for an Academy Award. The others are Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Ann-Margret, Lena Olin and Max von Sydow.Before she mastered the Danish language she had to use in A Royal Affair (2012), she was able to practice all of her lines, since they had been recorded on her Iphone by one of her mother's friends.Signed as the new face of Louis Vuitton in February 2015.Raised in G?teborg, Sweden.Her maternal grandmother, Solveig Waldemarsdotter, was Finnish, and came to Sweden in the early 1940s. Alicia's other grandparents were Swedish.One of six children.Appeared in the Swedish musical Kristina From Duvemala, written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus, for three years during the show's original run.She stated in an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (2014) that she did most of her own stunts, and had to repeat some of them, in Tomb Raider (2018).Her favorite actresses are Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert and Jennifer Lawrence.In 2011 she made her home in London. After renting in Notting Hill, Shoreditch and Hackney she bought an apartment in northwest London in 2013 and loves the old culture of Great Britain--"the opera, high tea, getting in a black cab".Revealed to "The New York Times" on February 9, 2016, that the filmmakers of The Danish Girl (2015) were obsessed with the fact that she didn't look Scandinavian and paled her skin to make her lighter. "People say that I'm tanned, but that's my natural color", she related. The real Gerda Wegener was a natural blonde and blue-eyed Danish woman with pale skin, while Vikander is a natural brunette with brown eyes and olive skin. Besides having her skin lightened, she also had to wear blonde wigs that didn't suit her skin tone in the film.In 2011 she was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.Has appeared in two period pieces set in Denmark, the neighbor country of her native Sweden, A Royal Affair (2012) and The Danish Girl (2015).Alicia actually learned Japanese for her role in Earthquake bird.Daughter of Maria Fahl and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist.In an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" in August 2015 she confirmed that she and Michael Fassbender are a couple. They met while filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) in 2014.She auditioned for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Batman (2021).Shared the cover of "Vanity Fair" magazine's 2016 Hollywood issue with Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Charlotte Rampling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.Auditioned for the role of Cinderella in Cinderella (2015). Lily James was cast instead.The second Academy Award winner to portray Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018). The first was Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).Was the 145th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Danish Girl (2015) at The Oscars (2016).During the showreel of The Weinstein Company's upcoming slate of films at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, producer Harvey Weinstein told journalists that he was so enamored of Vikander that he asked her to play a part in Burnt (2015) (her part didn't exist in the original script). Weinstein also stated that Vikander will have a brilliant future in Hollywood's biggest league, and that she and her boyfriend Michael Fassbender are "the new talented couple". Vikander had previously starred in another Weinstein Company film, Tulip Fever (2017).Was named "The Thinking-Man's Blake Lively" by "The New York Times" in 2015.One of two dancers/actresses to play artificial life forms. Summer Glau was a Prima Ballerina who played a cyborg in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). Alicia was also a ballerina who played an android in Ex Machina (2014).An accomplished Swedish folk dancer--she was the first guest in the history of the Tonight Show to do the Swedish mid-summer eve Frog Dance on stage with host Jimmy Fallon in January 2016.Portrayed a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014) and a half-human/half-witch in Seventh Son (2014).Ranked #40 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2017".Included in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2018 list.Included in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2017 list. |
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Alicia Vikander |
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Actress,Producer,Executive (IMDB) |
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All World |
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5' 6' (1.68 m) |
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Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, V?stra G?talands l?n, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter |
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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.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.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.Filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) she met her current husband, Michael Fassbender, who plays her husband in the movie.Is the first Swede to win an Academy Award since Ingrid Bergman for Murder on the Orient Express (1974).Dropped out of both Assassin's Creed (2016) and The Circle (2017) to do Jason Bourne (2016) instead. She was replaced by Ariane Labed in "Assassin's Creed" and by Emma Watson in "The Circle".The directors she dreams to work with are Lars von Trier, Terrence Malick and Quentin Tarantino.Her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, instead of Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Danish Girl (2015), was seen by many as a critical category fraud, as her character, Gerda, has more screen time and more dialogue than Eddie Redmayne's character, Einar/Lili. Vikander has 73 minutes of screen time, 61.7% of the movie's length. Distributor Focus Features decided to campaign for Vikander as supporting actress because they thought it would increase her chances of winning.Director Tom Hooper delayed production of The Danish Girl (2015) until after Alicia finished filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) to secure her for the role of Gerda.Auditioned for the part of Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). She worked on her English and made tapes of herself playing different characters, hoping to land a part in an American movie. The tapes were sent to casting directors in the UK. After meeting with the casting directors, she was en route to the airport when she received the call she had been waiting for: executives at Universal wanted to send her to Los Angeles to screen-test for the part of Snow White. "I was on the phone crying at a Starbucks," Vikander recalled. "People thought I was having a breakup with my boyfriend! I said, "No, it's good news! I'm going to have a career!'". She didn't get the part, however; it went to Kristen Stewart.Got the part of Kitty in Anna Karenina (2012) after Saoirse Ronan turned it down, while she got the part of Alice in Seventh Son (2014) after Jennifer Lawrence backed out of the production.Beat out her Tulip Fever (2017) co-star Cara Delevingne for the role of Lara in Tomb Raider (2018).Is one of six Swedish actors to be nominated for an Academy Award. The others are Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Ann-Margret, Lena Olin and Max von Sydow.Before she mastered the Danish language she had to use in A Royal Affair (2012), she was able to practice all of her lines, since they had been recorded on her Iphone by one of her mother's friends.Signed as the new face of Louis Vuitton in February 2015.Raised in G?teborg, Sweden.Her maternal grandmother, Solveig Waldemarsdotter, was Finnish, and came to Sweden in the early 1940s. Alicia's other grandparents were Swedish.One of six children.Appeared in the Swedish musical Kristina From Duvemala, written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Bj?rn Ulvaeus, for three years during the show's original run.She stated in an interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (2014) that she did most of her own stunts, and had to repeat some of them, in Tomb Raider (2018).Her favorite actresses are Marion Cotillard, Isabelle Huppert and Jennifer Lawrence.In 2011 she made her home in London. After renting in Notting Hill, Shoreditch and Hackney she bought an apartment in northwest London in 2013 and loves the old culture of Great Britain--"the opera, high tea, getting in a black cab".Revealed to "The New York Times" on February 9, 2016, that the filmmakers of The Danish Girl (2015) were obsessed with the fact that she didn't look Scandinavian and paled her skin to make her lighter. "People say that I'm tanned, but that's my natural color", she related. The real Gerda Wegener was a natural blonde and blue-eyed Danish woman with pale skin, while Vikander is a natural brunette with brown eyes and olive skin. Besides having her skin lightened, she also had to wear blonde wigs that didn't suit her skin tone in the film.In 2011 she was named as one of European films' Shooting Stars by European Film Promotion.Has appeared in two period pieces set in Denmark, the neighbor country of her native Sweden, A Royal Affair (2012) and The Danish Girl (2015).Alicia actually learned Japanese for her role in Earthquake bird.Daughter of Maria Fahl and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist.In an interview with the "Daily Telegraph" in August 2015 she confirmed that she and Michael Fassbender are a couple. They met while filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) in 2014.She auditioned for the role of Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Batman (2021).Shared the cover of "Vanity Fair" magazine's 2016 Hollywood issue with Jane Fonda, Viola Davis, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Charlotte Rampling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.Auditioned for the role of Cinderella in Cinderella (2015). Lily James was cast instead.The second Academy Award winner to portray Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018). The first was Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).Was the 145th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Danish Girl (2015) at The Oscars (2016).During the showreel of The Weinstein Company's upcoming slate of films at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, producer Harvey Weinstein told journalists that he was so enamored of Vikander that he asked her to play a part in Burnt (2015) (her part didn't exist in the original script). Weinstein also stated that Vikander will have a brilliant future in Hollywood's biggest league, and that she and her boyfriend Michael Fassbender are "the new talented couple". Vikander had previously starred in another Weinstein Company film, Tulip Fever (2017).Was named "The Thinking-Man's Blake Lively" by "The New York Times" in 2015.One of two dancers/actresses to play artificial life forms. Summer Glau was a Prima Ballerina who played a cyborg in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008). Alicia was also a ballerina who played an android in Ex Machina (2014).An accomplished Swedish folk dancer--she was the first guest in the history of the Tonight Show to do the Swedish mid-summer eve Frog Dance on stage with host Jimmy Fallon in January 2016.Portrayed a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014) and a half-human/half-witch in Seventh Son (2014).Ranked #40 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2017".Included in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2018 list.Included in Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2017 list. |
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Natural olive skin |
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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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. |
| Job title: |
Actress,Producer,Executive |
| Spouse: |
Michael Fassbender (October 14, 2017 - present) (1 child) |
| Parents: |
Maria Fahl
Svante Vikander |
| Relatives: |
Anton Vikander (Sibling) |
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