Three Great Things: Alicia Vikander
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Alicia Vikander is an Academy Award-winning actress and producer who is currently starring as Katherine Parr in the historical drama Firebrand, also starring Jude Law, Eddie Marsan and Sam Riley. She has collaborated with some of the industry’s most respected filmmakers on a diverse range of roles from projects such as Testament of Youth, Jason Bourne, Ex Machina, Anna Karenina, The Light Between Oceans, A Royal Affair, The Green Knight and The Danish Girl, which resulted in her winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as a host of other awards including a SAG Award and Critics Choice Award. She also garnered multiple nominations including Golden Globe and BAFTA, both of which she was nominated in two categories, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for The Danish Girl and Ex Machina, respectively. In 2022, she starred in the A24/HBO co-production, Irma Vep, written and directed by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and based on his own cult film of the same title. (Photo by Dick Thomas Johnson, via Flickr.)