Alicia Vikander

Favorite saying: “There’s no cow on the ice,” in Swedish.

The Danish Girl and Ex Machina actress answers 67 of life’s most pressing questions

Whoever said you can’t have too much of a good thing is clearly unfamiliar with Alicia Vikander’s filmography. The Swedish actress first broke onto the scene as Kitty, the beautiful yet overlooked Shcherbatsky sister in Anna Karenina. She followed that with a chilling performance as Ava—the seductive A.I.-Judas figure—in Ex Machina, before earning an Academy Award and a host of other accolades for her portrayal of artist and painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl, opposite Eddie Redmayne. Now, in The Wizard of the Kremlin, Vikander plays a moral counterweight (Da!) to the corrupt world inhabited by Paul Dano’s political adviser and Jude Law’s Vladimir Putin ( READ ON