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.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (2016), Dorian Awards - Rising Star (2016), Saturn Awards (2016), Empire Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, Critics' Choice Movie Award - Best Supporting Actress, Guldbagge Award for Best Ac...
Nominations
BAFTA Rising Star Award (2013), European Film Awards (2015), 10 Actors to Watch: Breakthrough Performances (2012, 20th Hamptons International Film Festival), Teen Choice Awards, MTV Movie Awards,Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, BAFTA Award - Best Actress in a Leading Rol...
Movies
Tomb Raider (2018), Euphoria (2017), Son of a Gun (2014), The Danish Girl (2015), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), The Circle, Pure (2010), A Royal Affair (2012), Anna Karenina (2012), Hotell, The Fifth Estate (2013),
TV Shows
Andra Avenyn (2008-2010), Testament of Youth (2014-2015), Good Morning America (2015-2016), The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2015-2016), Second Avenue (2007-2008), En decemberdröm (2005), Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015, documentary), Småstjärnorna (1997, TV4 kids' singing show)
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Natural olive skin
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[The New York Times - February 9, 2016] During production of The Danish Girl (2015), the filmmakers were obsessed with me not looking Scandinavian and I was like, 'I'm the only Scandinavian in the whole film.' They paled my skin, to make me lighter. People say that I'm tanned, but that's my natural color.
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[on photographs of her private moments with her friends and boyfriend] It was a shock to meet up with friends, then days later see a picture of you all, sitting outside a café, splashed across the media. You realize that someone was there, watching, while you were having a coffee with your friends. And you just feel violated.
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[W Magazine - March 2015] Next year, the Oscars will be interesting. If all goes well, I'm going to have three films in contention. I've had many years of working a lot without being in the public eye. And that's been good. But by this time next year, I think things are going to change. I expect to be busy. I'm ready to be a bit more known.
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Both my mom and my dad have always included me in intelligent conversations about people, about characters, about how people work. My dad and my mom still read all scripts that I find interesting.
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I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that's such a big part of anyone's life in general, that's such a humane thing.
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[on being a brown-eyed, brown-haired, olive-skinned Swede] I always get that question - where are your parents really from? Do you know where your dad's from? [My parents] are both from very small villages, from up north and south of Sweden. I'm [also] a quarter Finnish, but that doesn't really make me much darker.
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It's almost a kick that I'm looking for. I like to push myself, find new sides of myself and see how different the characters are that I can create with my craft.
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I'd love to continue to work in Europe and the US. What I'm looking for is the right film and if that's a big studio film, or a tiny film being shot in a few days in Europe, that's not what I'm thinking about - it's about the project and who I'm going to do it with.
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During the showreel of The Weinstein Company's upcoming slate of films at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, producer Harvey Weinstein told journalists that he was so enamored of Vikander that he asked her to play a part in Burnt (2015) (her part didn't exist in the script). Weinstein also stated that Vikander will have a brilliant future in Hollywood's biggest league. Vikander had previously starred in another upcoming Weinstein Company film, Tulip Fever (2017).
The second Academy Award winner to portrayed Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2018). The first one was Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)_.
Was named "The Thinking-man's Blake Lively" by The New York Times in 2015.
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In 2011 she made her home in London. After renting in Notting Hill, Shoreditch and Hackney she bought an apartment in North West London in 2013 and loves the old culture of Great Britain "the opera, high tea, getting in a black cab".
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Director Tom Hooper delayed production of The Danish Girl (2015) until after Alicia finished filming The Light Between Oceans (2016) to secure her for the role of Gerda.
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Stated that she dislikes talking about her private life but often talks about her boyfriend in interviews for fashion magazines. In an interview with the Daily Telegraph published in August 2015 she confirmed that she and the actor Michael Fassbender are a couple. They met while filming The Light Between Oceans in 2014.
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Is the first Swede to win an Academy Award since Ingrid Bergman in 1975.
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Her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, instead of Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Danish Girl (2015), was seen by many as a critical category fraud, as her character, Gerda, has more screen time and more dialogue than Eddie Redmayne's character, Einar/Lili. Vikander has 73 minutes of screen time, 61.7% of the movie's length. Distributor Focus Features decided to campaign for Vikander as supporting actress because they thought it would increase her chances of winning.
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Revealed to The New York Times on February 9, 2016, that the filmmakers of The Danish Girl (2015) were obsessed with the fact that she didn't look Scandinavian and paled her skin, to make her lighter. "People say that I'm tanned, but that's my natural color", Vikander told. The real Gerda Wegener was a natural blonde and blue-eyed Danish woman with pale skin, while Vikander is a natural brunette with brown eyes and olive skin. Besides lightening her skin, Vikander also had to wear blonde wigs that didn't suit her skin tone in the film.
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Her maternal grandmother, Solveig Waldemarsdotter, was Finnish, and came to Sweden in the early 1940s. Alicia's other grandparents were Swedish.
Appeared in the Swedish musical Kristina From Duvemala, written by former ABBA member Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, for three years during the show's original run.
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Signed as the new face of Louis Vuitton in February 2015.
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Auditioned for the role of Cinderella in Cinderella (2015). Lily James was cast instead.
Auditioned for the part of Snow White in Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). She worked on her English and made tapes of herself playing different characters, hoping to land a part in an American movie, the tapes were sent to casting directors in the U.K. After meeting with the casting directors, she was en route to the airport when she received the call she had been waiting for: executives at Universal wanted to send her to Los Angeles to screen-test for the part of Snow White. "I was on the phone crying at a Starbucks," Vikander recalled. "People thought I was having a breakup with my boyfriend! I said, 'No, it's good news! I'm going to have a career!'". Vikander didn't get the part, it went to Kristen Stewart.
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Has appeared in two period pieces set in Denmark, the neighbor country of her native Sweden, A Royal Affair (2012) and The Danish Girl (2015).
Before she mastered the Danish language she had to use in A Royal Affair (2012), she was able to practice all of her lines, since they had been recorded on her Iphone by one of her mother's friend.
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Was chosen for her part in A Royal Affair (2012), following a long casting process where the casting directors were unable to find a fitting actress for the role of Queen Caroline Mathilde. In fact, the search gave so few results that the production almost was stalled. However, when they discovered Vikander she didn't speak the language that she was required to, but she was still considered to be perfect for the part. The crew made her go through an intense language lessons throughout two months. She succeed in the mastering the language and because of that, the production was back on track.
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Daughter of stage actress Maria Fahl-Vikander and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist.
One of her favorite experiences from the production of Anna Karenina (2012) was the filming that took place in the countryside outside of St. Petersburg, Russia. The temperatures dipped to -40 °C, and she stayed in a cabin for five days that didn't have hot water and only had benches instead of beds. Russian security guards protected her and co-star Domhnall Gleeson from wild wolves and bears that dominated the deserted area.
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A trained ballet dancer. She studied ballet at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, but decided to pursue acting instead of ballet, following few injuries and subsequent foot and back surgeries.
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Portrayed a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2015) and a half-human/half-witch in Seventh Son (2014).