Line #41 Creator/AliciaVikander


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3	Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress.
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5	She earned international fame for her work in ''Film/TheFifthEstate'', ''Film/ExMachina'', ''[[Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' and ''Film/TheDanishGirl''.
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7	She's been married to Creator/MichaelFassbender since 2017. Their first child was born sometime in early 2021.
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9	!!Filmography:
10	* ''Pure'' (2009) - Katarina
11	* ''Literature/AnnaKarenina'' (2012) - Princess Kitty
12	* ''Film/ARoyalAffair'' (2012) - Caroline Mathilde
13	* ''Film/TheFifthEstate'' (2013) - Anke Domscheit-Berg
14	* ''Film/TestamentOfYouth'' (2014) - Vera Brittain
15	* ''Film/SonOfAGun'' (2014) - Tasha
16	* ''Film/ExMachina'' (2015) - Ava
17	* ''Film/{{Seventh Son\|2015}}'' (2015) - Alice Deane
18	* ''[[Film/TheManFromUNCLE2015 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' (2015) - Gaby Teller
19	* ''Film/TheDanishGirl'' (2015) - Gerda Wegener; UsefulNotes/AcademyAward winner for Best Supporting Actress.
20	* ''Film/{{Burnt}}'' (2015) as Anna Marie
21	* ''Film/JasonBourne'' (2016) - Heather Lee
22	* ''The Light Between Oceans'' (2016) - Isabel Sherbourne
23	* ''Film/TulipFever'' (2017) - Sophia Sandvoort
24	* ''Film/{{Tomb Raider\|2018}}'' (2018) - [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]
25	* ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' (2019) - Mira
26	* ''Film/TheGreenKnight'' (2021) - Lady / Esel
27	* ''Film/BlueBayou'' (2021) - Kathy [=LeBlanc=]
28	* ''Series/IrmaVep'' (2022) - Mira
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30	!!Vikander and her work provide examples of:
31	* CreatorBacklash: Although she didn't name any specific films, she stated in 2022 that she had some bad experiences filming sex scenes earlier in her career. While she doesn't mind filming such scenes per se, she stated that poor planning and lack of intimacy coordinators left her feeling uncomfortable and unsafe.
32	* DyeingForYourArt: She put on a good bit of muscle for ''Tomb Raider''.
33	* FakeNationality: She has rarely been cast as her own nationality (Swedish) in films and TV shows made outside of her home country. Vikander has portrayed a Dane in ''The Danish Girl'', a Russian in ''Anna Karenina'', Germans in ''The Fifth Estate'' and ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', a Dutchwoman in ''Tulip Forever'', a Frenchwoman in ''Burnt'' and an Australian in ''The Light Between Oceans''.
34	** FakeAmerican: She's portrayed Americans in ''Seventh Son'', ''Ex Machina'' and ''Seventh Son''.
35	** FakeBrit: She's also played Brits in ''Testament Of Youth'', ''A Royal Affair'' (although in the latter she speaks Danish for most of it), ''Tomb Raider'' and ''The Green Knight''. That said, Vikander did move with her family to the UK when she was 15.
36	* HollywoodHypeMachine: After a very successful breakout year, Vikander was built up as a major rising star, but has not yet replicated a similar level of success, though there's certainly time for this trope to be proven wrong.
37	* MsFanservice: She has a propensity for getting naked on film.
38	* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Her Swedish accent slips out frequently as she plays American Heather Lee in ''Jason Bourne''.
39	* PhenotypeStereotype: Vikander is naturally olive-skinned and dark-haired. She has claimed that she's had to aim for light skin as she doesn't fit the Hollywood image of a Scandinavian.
40	-->'''[[https://www.vogue.com/article/alicia-vikander-january-2016-cover Vogue]]''': If there was any early obstacle, it may have been Alicia's coloring: She is not the ice sculpture that Hollywood often imagines for its Nordics. Again and again, she has been asked to wear long sleeves and SPF 100 in order to help the makeup department conjure the desired pallor. "Two years of films where I had to be white as a ghost," she says now, laughing. "But I'm a real Swede! In fact, I’m a quarter Finnish. Here I go, exploding stereotypes."
41	* ReclusiveArtist: She’s one of the few prominent millennial actors to have no official social media accounts. She had a verified Instagram account for a month before deciding she didn’t like it and deleted it. She had a baby in early 2021 and managed to hide her pregnancy for the most part (although, 2020 would have been an easier year than most for an actor to hide a pregnancy)
42	* RomanceOnTheSet: With Creator/MichaelFassbender. They met and fell in love on the set of ''The Light Between Oceans'', and they've since gotten married, with a son born 2021.
43	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
44	** She screen-tested for the role of [[Comicbook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] in ''Film/{{The Batman\|2022}}'' before the casting of Creator/ZoeKravitz.
45	** She was set to co-produce and star in the film adaptation of ''Film/TheMarshKingsDaughter2023'', but later dropped out, with the role of Helena going to Creator/DaisyRidley instead. Funnily enough, Ridley was reportedly considered for the role of Lara Croft before Vikander was cast.
46	** A ''Tomb Raider'' sequel was in development for a March 2021 release date but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic and her pregnancy. It was eventually scrapped all together the following spring when MGM lost the rights.

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