Who is Alicia Vikander?

Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress and former dancer.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Gerda Wegener in the 2015 film The Danish Girl.

She also starred in the Danish film A Royal Affair and the science fiction thriller Ex Machina. Vikander is cast as Lara Croft in the 2018 film Tomb Raider.

What is the full name of Alicia Vikander?

Alicia was born on 3 October 1988, in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. Her full name is Alicia Amanda Vikander.

She is the daughter of Maria Fahl Vikander, a stage actor, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Her parents are from small villages to the north and south of Sweden.

Her parents separated when Vikander was two months old and she was mostly raised by her single mother. She has five half-siblings on her father’s side. She trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet School since she was nine.

Alicia Vikander also trained at the School of American Ballet in New York. Her dance career was sidelined by injuries in her late teens. Her nationality is Swedish and she is of Swedish, Baltic German, and Finnish ethnicity.