Alicia Vikander
Actor | Producer
Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress and former dancer. Born and raised in Gothenburg, she 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 (2008–10).
Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), 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 and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair, receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama ... Show more...
Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress and former dancer. Born and raised in Gothenburg, she 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 (2008–10).
Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), 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 and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair, receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. She went on to star in the 2013 Swedish drama film Hotell and appeared in the Julian Assange-biopic The Fifth Estate that same year.
In 2014 and 2015, Vikander achieved global recognition and acclaim for her roles as activist Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth, a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress) and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl, for which she received the Academy Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress, among other awards. Show less...
Filmography - Acting
Filters:
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding (2019)
As: Faith
You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it - and will there be any more familiar faces?
Runtime: 14 min.
Directed by: Mike Newell
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Andie MacDowell | Hugh Grant | Alicia Vikander | Lily James
Freakshift (2018)
As: Diane Largo
In a city where dangerous monsters emerge from underground every night, a monster-fighting patrol team is tasked with finding and exterminating them before they can kill the city’s inhabitants.
Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Stars: Armie Hammer | Alicia Vikander | Sasha Lane
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
As: Narrator (voice)
Documentary on psychedelic potash mines, expansive concrete seawalls, mammoth industrial machines, and other examples of humanity’s massive, destructive reengineering of the planet.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Jennifer Baichwal | Nicholas de Pencier | Edward Burtynsky
Stars: Alicia Vikander
Tomb Raider (2018)
As: Lara Croft
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: Roar Uthaug
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas | Walton Goggins | Daniel Wu | Dominic West | Alicia Vikander
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland (2017)
As: Little My / Sorry-oo (voice)
This winter is extraordinary; Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of hibernating as usually. And winters are certainly totally different than he had imagined. Strangest creatures wander amidst the snowdrifts; midwinter darkness surrounds the Moominvalley, and on top of that, an eccentric guest is soon to appear. This guest requires many measures, and is called ...
Runtime: 82 min.
Directed by: Ira Carpelan | Jacub Wroński
Stars: Stellan Skarsgård | Bill Skarsgård | Alicia Vikander
Euphoria (2017)
As: Ines
The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Lisa Langseth
Stars: Charlotte Rampling | Eva Green | Adrian Lester | Charles Dance | Alicia Vikander
Tulip Fever (2017)
As: Sophia Sandvoort
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Justin Chadwick
Stars: Judi Dench | Jack O'Connell | Christoph Waltz | Alicia Vikander | Dane DeHaan
Birds Like Us (2017)
As: Huppu (voice)
The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Amela Ćuhara | Faruk Šabanović
Stars: Jim Broadbent | Jeremy Irons | Alicia Vikander | Khalid Abdalla | Sheridan Smith
Submergence (2017)
As: Danielle Flinders
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James Moore, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Wim Wenders
Stars: Alexander Siddig | James McAvoy | Alicia Vikander | Celyn Jones | Audrey Quoturi
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
As: Isabel Sherbourne
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Runtime: 133 min.
Directed by: Derek Cianfrance
Stars: Rachel Weisz | Bryan Brown | Michael Fassbender | Jack Thompson | Alicia Vikander
Jason Bourne (2016)
As: Heather Lee
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
Runtime: 123 min.
Directed by: Paul Greengrass
Stars: Matt Damon | Vincent Cassel | Tommy Lee Jones | Alicia Vikander | Julia Stiles
The Danish Girl (2015)
As: Gerda Wegener
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.
Runtime: 119 min.
Directed by: Tom Hooper
Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts | Ben Whishaw | Sebastian Koch | Eddie Redmayne | Alicia Vikander
Burnt (2015)
As: Anne Marie
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Wells
Stars: Uma Thurman | Bradley Cooper | Sienna Miller | Alicia Vikander | Lily James
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (2015)
As: Ingrid Bergman (voice)
A personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries.
Runtime: 114 min.
Directed by: Stig Björkman
Stars: Isabella Rossellini | Alicia Vikander | Roberto Rossellini | Isotta Rossellini | Fiorella Mariani
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
As: Gaby Teller
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Luca Calvani | Armie Hammer | Henry Cavill | Alicia Vikander | Elizabeth Debicki
Ex Machina (2015)
As: Ava
Caleb, a 26 year old programmer at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in ...
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Alex Garland
Stars: Corey Johnson | Domhnall Gleeson | Oscar Isaac | Alicia Vikander | Sonoya Mizuno
Seventh Son (2014)
As: Alice Deane
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to ...
Runtime: 102 min.
Directed by: Sergei Bodrov
Stars: Ben Barnes | Jeff Bridges | Julianne Moore | Alicia Vikander | Kit Harington
Son of a Gun (2014)
As: Tasha
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Julius Avery
Stars: Ewan McGregor | Jacek Koman | Alicia Vikander | Brenton Thwaites | Matthew Nable
Testament of Youth (2014)
As: Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: James Kent
Stars: Colin Morgan | Dominic West | Alicia Vikander | Kit Harington | Taron Egerton
The Fifth Estate (2013)
As: Anke Domscheit-Berg
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Bill Condon
Stars: David Thewlis | Anthony Mackie | Daniel Brühl | Benedict Cumberbatch | Alicia Vikander
Hotel (2013)
As: Erika
Erika is mentally bruised and starts group therapy with people seeking absolute anonymity.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lisa Langseth
Stars: David Dencik | Henrik Norlén | Alicia Vikander | Mira Eklund | Simon J. Berger
Anna Karenina (2012)
As: Kitty Shcherbatskaya
Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
Runtime: 129 min.
Directed by: Joe Wright
Stars: Keira Knightley | Jude Law | Matthew Macfadyen | Kelly Macdonald | Aaron Taylor-Johnson
A Royal Affair (2012)
As: Caroline Mathilde
A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.
Runtime: 137 min.
Directed by: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen | David Dencik | Alicia Vikander | Mikkel Boe Følsgaard | Cyron Melville
The Crown Jewels (2011)
As: Fragancia Fernandez
Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence where she meets the great love of her life, ice hockey star Petterson-Jonsson and the lead up to the fatal night where the story begins.
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Ella Lemhagen
Stars: Bill Skarsgård | Björn Gustafsson | Michalis Koutsogiannakis | Alicia Vikander | Alexandra Rapaport
Pure (2009)
As: Katarina
Katarina is 20 years old. With a troubled past in a dreary suburb, her life seems to be already set in stone - until she discovers music. Everything changes when she hears a performance of Mozart’s 'Requiem' at the Gothenburg Concert Hall that sends her reeling and opens up a beautiful new world. She feels that she has to change her life and get as far away from her ugly reality as possible. But the path ...
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Lisa Langseth
Stars: Samuel Fröler | Martin Wallström | Isabella Alveborg | Alicia Vikander | Josephine Bauer
My Name Is Love (2008)
As: Fredrika
Love and Sebastian meet each other by a coincidence at a street in the romantic Swedish summer night. They happen to share the same secret, but their encounter is going to cause severe consequences for the both of them. An innocent flirt soon turns in to a dangerously liaison.
Runtime: 20 min.
Directed by: David Färdmar
Stars: Alicia Vikander | Adam Lundgren | Poyan Karimi | Jonas Rimeika | Johan Carlberg