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.

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.