Alicia Amanda Vikander is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 actress best known for her role in Swedish TV drama Andra Avenyn

Andra Avenyn

Andra Avenyn was a Swedish drama series and soap opera, produced by SVT and broadcast from 2007 to 2010. Three series were produced. The show was created by Peter Emanuel Falck and Christian Wikander, who also created the Swedish soap operas Varuhuset, Rederiet and Tre kronor...

 and the role of Alice Deane in the forthcoming movie The Seventh Son. She won the Rising Star Award in 2010 at the Stockholm Film Festival

Stockholm International Film Festival

The Stockholm International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Stockholm, Sweden. It was launched in 1990 and has been held every year in the second half of November...

 and the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress

Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...

 for Pure.

Biography

Alicia Vikander was born in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

, daughter of actress Maria Fahl Vikander. She has played in several musicals at the Gothenburg Opera and later trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School

Royal Swedish Ballet

The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet companies in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field; he also founded the Royal Swedish Opera and the...

 in Stockholm 2004-2007. She won a Guldbagge Award for Best Actress

Guldbagge Award

The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...

 for her role as Katarina in the 2010 Pure movie.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Darkness of Truth	Sandra Svensson
2007	The Rain	Dancer
2008	My Name Is Love	Fredrika
2009	Susans längtan	Girl in Apartament
2010	Till det som är vackert (Pure)	Katarina	Sweden's Guldbagge Award for Best Actress Guldbagge Award The Guldbagge Award is an official Swedish film award awarded annually since 1964 by the Swedish Film Institute.-Etymology:Guldbagge is the Swedish name for Cetonia aurata, a beetle also known as rose chafer. The name of the award could also be interpreted as a play on the Swedish word skalbagge,...
2011	Kronjuvelerna	Fragancia Fernandez
2012	A Royal Affair	Caroline Mathilde	Post-production
2012	Anna Karenina	Kitty	Filming
2013	The Seventh Son	Alice Deane	Pre-production

Television

Year	Title	Role
2001	Min balsamerade mor	Ebba Du Rietz
2002	En Ö I Havet	Susi
2005	En decemberdröm	Toni/Tony
2007	Levande föda	Linda
2007–2008	Andra Avenyn	Jossan Tegebrandt Björn
2008	Höök	Katarina

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