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.

She appeared in several musicals at the Gothenburg Opera and later trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm 2004-2007. She won the Rising Star Award in 2010 at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress for Pure. Vikander was born in Gothenburg the daughter of actress Maria Fahl Vikander and a psychiatrist father.

She will play the role of Alice Deane in the forthcoming movie The Seventh Son. She appeared in several musicals at the Gothenburg Opera and later trained at the Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm 2004-2007.