Action-Packed Facts About Alicia Vikander
For a classically-trained ballerina who started out by appearing in costume dramas, Swedish leading lady Alicia Vikander sure can kick some butt. While she made her name appearing in serious period pieces, since then she’s burst onto the scene as an action heroine. With memorable roles in films like Ex-Machina and The Danish Girl, Vikander is set to stay in demand in Hollywood with her new role as Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider. Since moviegoers will likely be seeing her in a lot of other roles in the future, here are 24 action-packed facts about Alicia Vikander.
Alicia Vikander Facts
24. Magnetic
Vikander is married to another star also lauded for his dramatic performances, Michael Fassbender. And like his wife, he dips his toe into the action genre as well—he’s perhaps best known for his role as Magneto in X:Men First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse. Derek Cianfrance, who directed them together in The Light Between Oceans, likened the couple to basketball greats Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan, "They were going to make one another better. And they were better together."
23. Golden Girl
Vikander won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2016 for her role as Gerda in The Danish Girl. Alicia's mom inspired Alicia to get into acting, and watched proudly from the live audience as Vikander accepted her award. She also thanked the transgender community, crediting them for helping her to make her character more believable, since the role that she portrayed was that of a woman who was married to a man who became the first recipient of gender-reassignment surgery. When she won, Vikander also became the first Swede to win an Oscar since Ingrid Bergman in 1975.
