It’s not every day that you find so much talent packed into a single person. She is beautiful. She has a great sense of style. And she is gracious. Ladies and gentlemen, Alicia Vikander. Known to most people as the face behind Ex Machina, the hit Sci-Fi thriller, Alicia Vikander has become a sensation in the acting industry. Her talent and good looks have dumbstruck everyone. After a stunning performance in Ex Machina, nothing can stop Alicia Vikander from becoming one of the leading actresses in Hollywood.

She will undoubtedly play lead roles in more movies to come, and everyone cannot wait to see what she has planned for her budding career. However, most people do not know that Alicia Vikander has been an actor almost all her life, and that acting may never have been her genre in the first place. Read on to discover more on this and other things on ten things you didn’t know about Alicia Vikander.

She would have been a dancer

It’s almost crazy to think that Alicia Vikander would have become anything other than an actor, considering her skills. However, she would have become a dancer had she not tried her hand in acting. As a girl, she had always dreamed of becoming a ballerina, for which she attended one of the finest schools: the Royal Swedish Ballet School. Unfortunately (or fortunately, for the acting industry), she suffered several leg and back injuries and had to drop out as a result.

She would also have been a lawyer

It is not a career that you would picture for such a striking personality, but Alicia Vikander might have actually joined the likes of John Grisham and Robert Shapiro in the law industry. In her search for what she described as a ‘proper’ career, Alicia Vikander once applied for a position in a law school and actually got accepted. As fate would have it, she subsequently received another invitation to feature in the popular Swedish film “Pure” just two weeks before she began her studies. This is where she discovered her passion for acting.

Acting runs in the family

Alicia Vikander’s fast rise to fame might slightly be attributed to her DNA. It turns out that acting runs in her blood, as her mother was also an actress. She has lived all her life observing her mother and her fellow actors, and it clearly rubbed off on her. In fact, she considers acting somewhat of a family affair, often consulting her parents before accepting any part in a film. She also makes a point of passing them all her scripts to read.

She has sacrificed a lot for her career

Contrary to popular belief, acting is not all sunshine and rainbows. Alicia Vikander had to sacrifice a lot before her deserved rise to fame. She put off dancing and law to get into acting, and her life is not ideally private (as every actor will admit). In one of her interviews, she recalled how one of her roles led her to Russia’s wilderness, where she had to survive through a chilling cold, with ravenous bears and wolves running wild outside her cabin.

She has the coolest friends

Birds of a feather do indeed flock together, and it is only ideal that such a great personality as Alicia Vikander should be surrounded by other great personalities. Her friends comprise fellow actors and actresses who draw coverage wherever they go, and her circle of friends is growing bigger as her star shines brighter. Her most notable friends are Swedish pop duo Icona Pop.

She is currently seeing someone

Aspiring suitors are out of luck as the beautiful and charming Alicia Vikander is currently dating, and it seems pretty serious. In 2012, rumors had it that she was seeing Alexander Skarsgard, the star in True Blood. Although both of them dismissed the stories, she has no reservations letting the whole world know that she is in love with Michael Fassbender. The two met when working on the dark romance film “The Light Between Oceans,” and their relationship has been going strong since 2014. They make numerous appearances together, and, of course, they are a lovely couple.

She is one in a million

As far as records go, Alicia Vikander has a very interesting one to her name. Her leading role in Ex Machina not only shot her to fame but also put her name in the records for the only dancer turned actor to play the role of an AI life form. She did an incredible job imitating a robot in the sci-fi thriller, and became the only other actress to hold this title alongside Summer Glau, one of the co-stars in the sci-fi series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

She lives in London

Like most other Londoners, Alicia Vikander is in love with the city. Her first years living in London were tough as she was broke and lived in a tiny and dirty apartment with the pop duo Icona Pop. However, that did not stop her from falling in love with the place, and she has made it her home ever since. As you may imagine, she currently resides in one of the best part of the city, a significant change from 2012.

She has several awards to her name

It is no secret that Alicia Vikander is a great actress, and she has several awards to her name to prove it. Her role in the Swedish film Pure won her the Rising Star Award in 2010 at the Stockholm Film Festival. She also won the Breakout Actress of the Year Award at the Ischia Film Festival. Considering how much she has upped her game in Ex Machina and the upcoming The Light Between Oceans, she is definitely set to bag many more awards.

Her net worth

Alicia Vikander has definitely experienced the hardship of not having enough money, but those days are long behind her considering how much her acting has brought her. She is worth about $4 million, and this figure is growing bigger by the day.