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.

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.