Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She first gained recognition for her role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the drama series Andra Avenyn. She made her feature film debut in Pure, for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. In 2012, she gained international attention for playing the key role of Kitty in the English-language adaptation of Anna Karenina.
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Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and three British Academy Film Awards. 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 School in Stockholm. She first gained recognition for her role as Josefin Björn-Tegebrandt in the drama series Andra Avenyn. She made her feature film debut in Pure, 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. In 2016, Vikander was listed by Forbes in its 30 Under 30 list. She also held a supporting role in the action film Jason Bourne and starred as Lara Croft in the adventure film Tomb Raider. Vikander has said that she had the best of both worlds growing up, being an only child to her mother and being surrounded by a big family when she went to her father’s house every second week. Her parents are from small villages in the north and south of Sweden, and she is one-quarter Finnish and a maternal great-aunt moved from Finland to Sweden to escape World War 2.
She auditioned for drama school but was turned down twice. At one point, she was admitted to law school but she never attended, following her dreams to become an actress instead. She appeared in several musicals at the Opera, such as The Sound of Music and Les Misérables. At the age of 16, she almost left school to commit fully to the television series she worked on with director Tomas Alfredson, realizing her passion for acting. She won her episode with praise by the judges for her stage presence in Småstjärnorna; she performed the Helen Sjöholms song, \”Du måste finnas\”. She won the prestigious Star Award in 2010 at the Stockholm International Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Shooting Shooting Festival. In 2011, she co-starred as Queen Caroline in The Crown, starring Keira Knightley. In 2012, she gained international attention for playing the key role of Kitty in the English-language adaptation of Anna Karenina. She had the role of Fragancia Fernandez, who is arrested for attempted murder, in Crown.
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