The Lady from the Sea

FILM includes The Danish Girl, for which she won the 2015 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a SAG Award and Critics Choice Award, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA; other films include Ex Machina (nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA awards), Tomb Raider and, most recently, The Assessment (BIFA nomination for Best Lead Performance). Future films include Hope directed by Na Hong-jin, The Wizard of the Kremlin directed by Olivier Assayas.

Other work includes Firebrand, Irma Vep, Rumours, Tomb Raider (as Lara Croft), Euphoria (which she also produced), Blue Bayou, The Green Knight, The Light Between Oceans, Testament of Youth, Submergence, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Alicia Vikander is also an ambassador for fashion house Louis Vuitton.

May 2025

THEATRE includes Parlour Song and The Late Henry Moss at the Almeida; Free and Blue/Orange (also West End) at the National Theatre; Hushabye Mountain at Hampstead; and most recently Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic (also Old Vic: In Camera series).

TELEVISION includes ITV’s Cold Water (also Executive Producer); and most recently The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (also Executive Producer) following The Walking Dead (Saturn Award for Best Actor in a TV Series, 2015 and 2017 and many other nominations) and Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Earlier TV includes Drop the Dead Donkey, This Life, The Woman in White, Bomber, A Likeness in Stone, Trevor’s World of Sport, The Canterbury Tales, Whose Baby?, Lie With Me, and the series Teachers (episodes of which he also directed, earning a BAFTA nomination for Best New Director, 2003). Also Afterlife (Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series), Strike Back, Moonshot and Wuthering Heights.

FILM includes Penguin Bloom, Boston Kickout, Love Actually, Enduring Love, Human Traffic, These Foolish Things, Hey Good Looking!, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Heartbreaker, and Made in Dagenham.

May 2025

TRAINING Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

TELEVISION includes The Road Trip and forthcoming series, The Choice.

JULY 2025

TRAINING Bristol University and Central School of Speech and Drama.

FILM includes Hamnet, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (in the title role, his acting debut; director Ang Lee); Panic Carefully, Kinds of Kindness and The Favourite (both directed by Yorgos Lanthimos), The Brutalist, Hamlet, The Stars at Noon (which won the Grand Prize at Cannes, 2022), Catherine Called Birdy, Harriet, Mary Queen of Scots, Boy Erased, The Souvenir: Part II, Operation Finale, Last Letter from Your Lover, and Sense of an Ending.

TELEVISION includes Conversations with Friends.

AWARDS He was selected as one of the 2015 Screen International ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ and was awarded the Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.

JULY 2025

THEATRE includes Yerma (also off-Broadway) and the title role in The Life of Galileo at the Young Vic; The Crucible (as John Proctor) at the National Theatre; Dance Nation at The Almeida, and extensive work in Australia, including the title role in Hamlet for Bell Shakespeare Company; Miss Julie and The Wild Duck for Belvoir St Theatre; and The Shape Of Things and True West for Sydney Theatre Company. 

TELEVISION includes Plum (a series adapted from his novel of the same name), Dune: Prophecy, Castaways, The Twelve, Game of Thrones, The Borgias, Press, Love My Way and The Slap (he also scripted the latter two).

FILM includes Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar: Fire and Ash (as Mick Scoresby), Noise, Beneath Hill 60, and To End All Wars.

WRITING includes several plays such as Ruben Guthrie, which he also directed for film and which opened at the London Film Festival; and the novels Plum (nominated for the 2022 Indie Book Awards) and How It Feels.

JULY 2025

THEATRE includes Phaedra at the National Theatre; The Lover / The Collection at the Harold Pinter; Killer at Shoreditch Town Hall; Yerma (also at Park Avenue Armory, New York), The Member of the Wedding and In the Red and Brown Water at the Young Vic; The Homecoming at Trafalgar Studios; Children’s Children and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida; Piranha Heights at the Soho; Cymbeline for Cheek by Jowl (world tour); Macbeth at the Royal Exchange Manchester; and Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse and on Broadway (for the last two he was nominated for the Ian Charleson Award).

TV includes Surface, One Day, The Cleaner, The Burning Girls, The Great, Ghosts, Extraordinary, House of the Dragon, The Nevers,  Famalam, King Lear, Hang Ups, Back, Kiss Me First, Ordinary Lies, The Windsors, Chewing Gum, Hoff the Record, Critical, Silk. 

FILM includes The Woman in Cabin 10, The Scurry, Jay Kelly, The People We Hate at the Wedding, Maleficent, The Dark Knight Rises, Hanna. 

JULY 2025

TRAINING National Youth Theatre and Oxford University.

THEATRE includes F*cking White Boys, which she wrote and performed initially as a reading at Soho Theatre then developed further with the National Youth Theatre; and DOG SH!T at Theatre503.

TELEVISION Grantchester and Renegade Nell.

JULY 2025