Amanda Alicia Vikander was born on 3rd October 1988 in Gothenburg, Sweden. and is an actress, perhaps best known as the winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting actress in the film “The Danish Girl”. However, she is also known for her supporting role of Kitty in the film “Anna Karenina”, and for playing Alice Deane in the movie “The Seventh Son”. Vikander has been active in the entertainment industry since 2002.
How much is the net worth of Alicia Vikander? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of her wealth is as much as $9 million, as of the data presented at the end of 2018. Film and television are the major sources of Vikander’s net worth.
Alicia Vikander Net Worth $9 Million
To begin with, Alicia’s mother is the theatre actress Maria Fahl Vikander, whereas her father is the psychiatrist Svante Vikander. She spent her childhood behind the scenes of the theatres where her mother played, meantime playing the violin for seven years before giving up, when she joined the Swedish Royal Ballet to become a professional dancer. At this time, Alicia also had an internship at the Royal Opera in Stockholm, in which she earned a role in the dance film “The Rain” (2007), and in several productions of the Gothenburg Opera.
She began her film career in 2007, but she attracted wider attention starring in the film “Pure” (2010) directed by Lisa Langseth, as she received the Award Guldbagge for Best Actress. Then she showed up to the international audience starring in the film “Royal Affair” (2012), for which role she won the Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin Film Festival. The same year she lent her features to Kitty in the adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina” by Joe Wright; for the purposes of the film, she learnt to speak British English and had work on her accent – her performance earned her a nomination for the Rising Star Award in 2013. That year the actress made a notable debut in Hollywood cinema as part of the cast of the thriller “The Fifth Estate”, presented at the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival. The following year, she starred in the Australian film “Son of a Gun” (2014), alongside Ewan McGregor and Brenton Thwaites, and in the great Hollywood movie “The Seventh Son” (2014) opposite Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. These feature films have received mixed reviews, but Vikander has always been praised, which certainly boosted her net worth.
In 2015, the premiere of “Ex Machina” took place, in which Vikander played Ava; the picture has earned almost $37 million worldwide, with a budget of $15 million, and received many nominations, including for Oscar and BAFTA awards, with the actress receiving her first Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Among others, the actress has also starred in “The Danish Girl” in 2015, playing Gerda Wegener, the wife of the main character played by Eddie Redmayne. For this role, the actress was nominated for many awards, including most importantly for BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar. In 2016, the actress joined the cast of the movie “Jason Bourne” becoming the head of the CIA Cybernetic Intelligence – Heather Lee; the film turned out to be a financial success, earning around $415 million worldwide.
At the end of the year, the premiere of the drama “The Light Between Oceans” took place, in which the actress played the role of Isabel Graysmark – the film garnered positive reviews for acting, but not for the way in which history was presented. Recently, Alicia has been seen in the films “Tulip Fever” (2017), “Submergence” (2017), “Euphoria” (2017) and “Moomins and the Winter Wonderland” (2017). Currently, she is working on the sets of upcoming films “Tomb Raider” and “Freak Shift” both are going to be released in 2018, so her continued activity assures a continually rising net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, after having shared her life with the businessman Gustav Gisseldahl, since late 2014 she has been in a relationship with the actor Michael Fassbender; they married in 2017.
