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She walked away with an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on Oscar Night — but who is Alicia Vikander? Well, it turns out that the 26-year-old beauty is a machine, a model, a daredevil and a dancer! Here are 10 things you don't know about the striking beauty who's taking Hollywood — and one brooding hottie — by storm!
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1. As part of a January 2016 cover story in Vogue, Alicia went skydiving with her interviewer.
The danish girl – Red Carpet – 72nd Venice Film Festival
2. Though she’s earning acclaim for starring in “The Danish Girl,” Alicia is actually Swedish.
72nd Venice Film Festival
3. Alicia isn't letting film stardom keep her from modeling, and she's even committed to being the new face of Louis Vuitton.
USA – 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards – Press Room
4. She likes to party the night away. “I may not be a dancer any more, but I do love a boogie,” she says.
USA – 27th Palm Springs International Film Festival Gala – Palm Springs
5. She slathered herself with sunscreen to be “shiny like a mannequin” to audition for the part of a self-aware robot in “Ex Machina.”
USA – 21st Annual Critics’ Choice Awards – Arrivals.
6. Before hitting it big in the movies, Alicia worked in a flower shop and also applied to law school.
‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ New York Premiere
7. She studied ballet at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, but a series of small injuries ended her ballerina dreams.
Arrivals – 2016 British Academy Film Awards
8. Alicia had a great 2015 — but the critical acclaim of "Ex Machina" and "The Danish Girl" was nearly sunk after she was showcased in the despised summer bomb "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
“The Danish Girl” Premiere – 2015 Toronto International Film Festival
9. She’s been dating hunky “X-Men” and “The Light Between Oceans” star Michael Fassbender since 2014.
2016 Vanity Fair Oscar Party
10. 2012’s “Anna Karenina” was the beauty's first movie in English.
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