Alicia Vikander is the actress to watch in 2016. The Swedish star has become one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Despite her meteoric rise, though, the 27 year-old is keeping her feet on the ground.
“It girl” and emerging style icon Alicia Vikander won best supporting actress Oscar for her role in Tom Hooper’s transgender drama The Danish Girl. The first-time nominee beats favourite Kate Winslet to win the Academy award. She used the occasion, onstage, to thank her co-star (and fellow nominee) Eddie Redmayne and director Tom Hooper, as well as her parents. At the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Vikander—who changed between the ceremony and after-party—told Tyler Oakley, as she clutched her Oscar, that winning “is amazing and the greatest recognition you could ever get.” She also revealed someone she didn’t get a chance to thank during her speech, “a dear friend” and mentor.
Alicia Vikander plays Gerda, a painter in the 1920s who wrestles with her course of action when her husband reveals his desire to live as a woman.
The Danish Girl
In the late 1920s, Danish landscape painter Einar Wegener poses as a female dancer for his wife, Gerda, while she waits for her model to arrive. Stirred by the experience and supported by Gerda, Einar begins a journey fraught with both emotional and physical peril as he transitions into his true self, a woman called Lili Elbe.