Thursday, November 29, 2018

Alicia Vikander ... October 3, 1988 .....Sweden

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Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl-Vikander, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. She is of Swedish and one quarter Finnish descent. Alicia 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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Actress (39 credits)

The Glorias: A Life on the Road (pre-production)
Young Gloria Steinem
A feature film based on feminist icon Gloria Steinem's best selling memoir, My Life on the Road, telling the story of her itinerant childhood's influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.

2019 Earthquake Bird (post-production)
Lucy Fly
A young ex-pat living in Tokyo is suspected of murder, which uncovers a mysterious love triangle.

2018 Tomb Raider
Lara Croft
Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class.

2018 The Magic Diner Pt.II (Short)
A girl holed up in a hotel, hiding from her admiring public, and fretting that her supernatural gizmo may have, at long last, run out of answers. Which is when a surprise visitor knocks at her door.

2017 Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
Little My (English version, voice)
Moomintroll decides to stay awake to explore the winter instead of having his winter slumber as usually. Winter is certainly totally different than he had imagined.

2017 Louis Vuitton: Cruise 2018 (Video short)
Girl
1min | Short, Adventure

2017 Submergence
Danielle Flinders
Director: Wim Wenders
In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible 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.

2017/I Euphoria
Ines
Sisters in conflict travelling through Europe toward a mystery destination..... Alicia Vikander, Eva Green, Charlotte Rampling

2017 Tulip Fever
Sophia Sandvoort
An artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam.

2017 Birds Like Us
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.

2016 The Light Between Oceans
Isabel Graysmark
A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from a drifting rowing boat.

2016 Jason Bourne
Heather Lee
The CIA's most dangerous former operative is drawn out of hiding to uncover more explosive truths about his past.

2015 The Magic Diner (Short)
Alicia Vikander
A girl finds herself in a diner with a machine that gives her answers to any question she asks.

2015/I Burnt
Anne Marie
Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) 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.

2015 Louis Vuitton: The Spirit of Travel (Video short)

2015 The Danish Girl
Gerda
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Gaby
In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons.

2014/I Seventh Son
Alice
When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him.

2014 Ex Machina
Ava
A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.

2014 Son of a Gun
Tasha
JR busts out of prison with Brendan Lynch, Australia's most notorious criminal, and joins Lynch's gang for a gold heist that soon pits the two men against one another.

2014 Testament of Youth
Vera Brittain
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

2013 Hotel
Erika
Erika has it all: a good job, lots of friends and a secure relationship. Until the day it all falls apart. Suddenly this perfect life means nothing, and the feelings she once was able to control are no longer within reach. She starts going to group therapy and meets other people suffering from various forms of trauma. One day Erika and this eclectic group of four people decide to take matters into their own hands and heads off together in search of a way out. They start checking into hotels - a place of complete anonymity where one can wake up as a different person.

2013 The Fifth Estate
Anke Domscheit
A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization.

2012 Anna Karenina
Kitty
In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

2012 A Royal Affair
Caroline Mathilde
A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

2011 Jeu de chiennes (Short)
"Jeu de chiennes" stages a dinner. Around the table, three young women engaged in a real cold war. Lisa, the lover, waits for her man wisely; Alicia, the rebel, blames her for lack of independence. Charlotte, in the middle, witnesses this duel of contained anger and tension.

2011 The Crown Jewels
Fragancia Fernandez
When she's arrested for attempting to murder the son of a factory owner, Fragancia spins a tale of love and betrayal that began in her youth.

2010 Pure
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.

2009 Susans längtan (Short)
Girl in Apartment
Susan is longing for her boyfriend Anders who is away on business. Isolated in the flat they recently moved into, she has got the feeling that someone is visiting the apartment during night-time, and she has nightmares about living in the streets searching for Anders who has left her behind.

2007-2008 Second Avenue (TV Series)
Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
Second Avenue (Andra avenyn) is a swedish tv-series about an ex-prisoner, his sexually confused boxing-son, his on and off again christian girlfriend, her father who is a priest, his friend who is a psychiatrist, his foster child who is a teen mom, the father of her child who is a boxing muslim, and many more. - Episode #1.68 (2008) ... Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
- Episode #1.65 (2008) ... Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
- Episode #1.63 (2008) ... Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
- Episode #1.62 (2008) ... Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
- Episode #1.55 (2008) ... Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
Show all 39 episodes

2008 Höök (TV Series)
Katarina
Eva Höök is a superintendent police in a big town in the north of Sweden. Together with her policeteam she solves a lot of murdercases while she's raising her teenage son Lasse.
- Studentmordet - Del 2 (2008) ... Katarina

- Studentmordet - Del 1 (2008) ... Katarina

2008/V My Name Is Love (Short)
Fredrika
Love and Sebastian meet by coincidence in the street in the Swedish summer night. They happen to share the same secret, but their encounter will have severe consequences for the both of them. An innocent flirtation soon turns into a dangerous liaison.

2007 Levande föda (TV Mini-Series)
Linda
- Episode #1.3 (2007) ... Linda
- Episode #1.2 (2007) ... Linda
- Episode #1.1 (2007) ... Linda

2007 Darkness of Truth (Short)
Sandra Svensson
Sandra, a young female student, rents a room from Anna-Lisa - a middle aged actress and former ballet dancer in Berlin. One day Sandra reads her landlady's diary where she expresses outright hatred towards her tenant. As their relationship has appeared good and friendly, Sandra's existence is shattered. Anna Lisa is a has-been, who claims to work at the theatre but instead steals from her wealthy acquaintances and gets drunk at the local pub. She struggles to maintain an illusion of her former star status. After failed attempts to confront Anna-Lisa Sandra decides to confront by writing a message in the diary.

2007 The Rain (Short)
Dancer
https://vimeo.com/10508318
A series of tableaux of everyday settings with people in various stages of their lives. Relations form and finish, memories of meetings mingle with the yearning for meetings that have not happened yet. The dance slowly takes over, forming a pattern that none of the characters can see - they are all connected. The rain affects them all.

2006 Standing Outside Doors (Short)
Alicia

2005 En decemberdröm (TV Series)
Tony
A boy falls in a coma and discovers a society in his dreamscapes - Årets julklapp (2005) ... Tony
- En fruktansvärd ost (2005) ... Tony
- Budbäraren (2005) ... Tony
- Bobo gör comeback (2005) ... Tony
- Ett förräderi (2005) ... Tony
Show all 13 episodes

2003 The Befallen (TV Mini-Series)
Drabbad Mörker
A group of people with problems suddenly find they have supernatural powers.
- Slutet (2003) ... Drabbad Mörker (uncredited)

2002 Min balsamerade mor (TV Movie)
Ebba Du Rietz
In 1816 the thirty-five year old Baroness, Jacquette Du Rietz dies.Count Gustaf Piper's grief is huge and in his despair he lets embalm his beloved Jacquette.

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