Alicia Vikander would not have considered herself an action star and she is not a martial artist, but if you go behind the scenes with her as she transforms herself into Lara Croft for Tomb Raider, you will see just how incredible she is and how much she is transfigured, not just physically, but mentally as well. A ballet dancer for most of her life, she truly pushes beyond anyone’s limits to take on the role of Laura Croft. Kudos, Alicia Vikander.
About Alicia Vikander
Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born on October 3, 1988 and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. Her mother Maria Fahl-Vikander, is an actress on both stage and screen. Her father, Svante Vikander, is a psychiatrist. She is Swedish, with 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).
Alicia 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.
