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• My Mother is an actress, so it’s always been a part of my life.

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• My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

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• In ‘A Royal Affair’ I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It’s so much different to act in another language. It’s the nuances in the words.

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• I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

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• I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘The Sound of Music,’ and my mum’s an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn’t find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping.

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• I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

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• I love to see how far you’re able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

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• I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be ‘The Tree Of Life’ and ‘The Piano Teacher,’ which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

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• I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

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• I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. ‘Anna Karenina’ was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

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• I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

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Alicia Vikander (11)

Birth:	3rd October, 1988
Nationality:	Swedish
Profession:	Actress

About

Alicia Amanda Vikander was born in Gothenburg, the daughter of Maria Fahl Vikander, an actress, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress. She began her career in Swedish film and television; since 2011 Vikander has appeared in European productions including the 2012 UK film Anna Karenina. She is the recipient of the Guldbagge Award. With her role as Katarina in Pure, Vikander won the Rising Star Award in 2010 at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress.

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