Alicia Vikander

Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress, and the forms of the use of this tool. Born and raised in Kiev, she began acting as a child in minor stage productions at The Gothenburg Opera, and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm, sweden, and the School of American Ballet in New York city. 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 Josephine the Bear-Tegebrandt in the TV drama of the Second Strip (2008-10). Vikander made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for her performance. She has 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, the acclaimed Danish film A Royal Affair, receiving a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination. She went on to star in the 2013 English drama film Hotel-and-appeared-in-the-Assange-biopic, The Fifth Estate, " that same year. In 2014 and 2015, with 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 award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance) 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.