Alicia Vikander

Alicia Vikander is one of the most promising young actors of our generation. In 2011, Vikander won a prestigious Guldbagge Award (Sweden's version of the Oscars) for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for her performance as Katarina in the 2010 Swedish drama Pure, which most impressively was Vikander's film debut.

In 2012, Vikander was highlighted by the European Film Awards as one of their 'Shooting Stars' and in February 2013, she was nominated in the 'Rising Star' category at the internationally renowned EE British Academy Film Awards.

Since making her film debut in Pure, directed by Lisa Langseth, Vikander has garnered international recognition and has burst on to the international film scene, most noticeably with her role as Caroline Mathilde in Nikolaj Arcel's critically acclaimed A Royal Affair, in which Vikander starred in the lead female role opposite Mads Mikkelsen. In 2013, the film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Film category.

Vikander was later seen in The Fifth Estate directed by Bill Condon, in which she starred as Anke alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl, about the formation of Wikileaks and the relationship between its founders Julian Assange and Daniel Domscheit-Berg. In October 2014, Vikander starred in the Swedish film Hotell, reuniting her with director Lisa Langseth. Vikander plays Erika, a young woman who has recently given birth to a brain damaged baby and attends group therapy where she meets other people suffering from various forms of trauma. Erika and this eclectic group decide to get away to deal with their problems and check into hotels - a place of complete anonymity where they can feel like different people.

Other releases in 2015 were; Testament of Youth, the adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoirs. Set during World War I, Vikander will take on the lead role of Vera Brittain opposite Kit Harrington in the James Kent directed feature; Man From U.N.C.L.E, directed by Guy Ritchie, in which she stars alongside Armie Hammer and Henry Cavill. Based on the 1964 series of the same name, the story is set in the early 1960s, and follows CIA agents as they participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization; Julius Avery's Son of a Gun, in which she stars alongside Ewan McGregor and Brenton Thwaites; and Legendary Pictures' film The Seventh Son, directed by Sergei Bodrov - an 18th century adventure story centred on a young man named Thomas, who is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. Other cast include Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

She has filmed Tulip Fever a 17th century romance in which 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 the hope of building a future together. The film also stars Jack O'Connell, Dane DeHaan and Christoph Waltz and is produced by The Weinstein Company.

Vikander has worked on the Derek Cianfrance film, The Light Between Oceans based on the M.L Stedman novel opposite Michael Fassbender. The film follows a lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

Other film credits include, Joe Wright's Anna Karenina. This saw her play the frivolous Kitty alongside Keira Knightley and Jude Law and The Crown Jewels, which screened in Berlin.

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