Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#3287
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Alicia Vikander works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Alicia Vikander appears in 28 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Alicia. Ex Machina is the clearest case: a film rated 7.6 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, action, mystery. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Olivier Assayas, Na Hong-jin, Guy Maddin and others, Alicia Vikander helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Ex Machina (2015) as Ava · Blue Bayou (2021) as Kathy LeBlanc · A Royal Affair (2012) as Caroline Mathilde
Career snapshot
Ranked #3287 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
28
2012–2026
Career length
14 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.6
Ex Machina
Average Nutevio score
6.2
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.1
Hope
Most frequent director
Olivier Assayas
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Olivier Assayas
Most common genre
Drama
19 titles
Average runtime
1h 53m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.6 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Earthquake Bird, One Red Nose Day and a Wedding, Tomb Raider — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.6
Across 17 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.6
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Earthquake Bird, One Red Nose Day and a Wedding, Tomb Raider.
Most productive era
2010s
17 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|
| Drama | 6.613 films | 6.76 films |
| Action | 6.64 films | 6.62 films |
| Thriller | 6.05 films | 6.53 films |
| Comedy | 7.02 films | 4.91 film |
| Crime | 6.41 film | 6.21 film |
| Romance | 6.67 films | — |
| Horror | — | 4.91 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio · Career peak
2012A Royal Affair
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Caroline Mathilde. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Highest rated performance
2015Ex Machina
7.6 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Most recent film
2026Hope
The current state of the argument, as J'aur.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
28 of 28 films
as Caroline Mathilde
Directed by Unknown
as Ava
Directed by Alex Garland
as Vera Brittain
Directed by James Kent
as Kathy LeBlanc
Directed by Justin Chon
as Isabel Sherbourne
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Caroline Mathilde
A Royal Affair (2012)
Performance score8.0
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Caroline Mathilde gives Alicia Vikander a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Ava
Ex Machina (2015)
Performance score7.9
Ex Machina asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Ava is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth (2015)
Performance score7.9
Testament of Youth asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Vera Brittain is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Kathy LeBlanc
Blue Bayou (2021)
Performance score7.7
Blue Bayou asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Kathy LeBlanc is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Caroline Mathilde
Start here. A Royal Affair is the clearest statement of what Alicia Vikander does — accessible, 137 minutes, and rated 7.4 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Alicia at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Ex Machina (2015)
Keeps the drama register of A Royal Affair but asks for a colder reading of it.
Testament of Youth (2015)
Keeps the drama register of Ex Machina but asks for a colder reading of it.
The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Keeps the drama register of Testament of Youth but asks for a colder reading of it.
Blue Bayou (2021)
Keeps the drama register of The Light Between Oceans but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Joe Wright
Director
1 film together
Notably Anna Karenina
Bill Condon
Director
1 film together
Notably The Fifth Estate
James Kent
Director
1 film together
Notably Testament of Youth
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together
Notably Ex Machina
John Wells
Director
1 film together
Notably Burnt
Guy Ritchie
Director
1 film together
Notably The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Derek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together
Notably The Light Between Oceans
Paul Greengrass
Director
1 film together
Notably Jason Bourne
Justin Chadwick
Director
1 film together
Notably Tulip Fever
Lisa Langseth
Director
1 film together
Notably Euphoria
Wim Wenders
Director
1 film together
Notably Submergence
Mike Newell
Director
1 film together
Notably One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Wash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together
Notably Earthquake Bird
Julie Taymor
Director
1 film together
Notably The Glorias
Justin Chon
Director
1 film together
Notably Blue Bayou
David Lowery
Director
1 film together
Notably The Green Knight
Guy Maddin
Director
1 film together
Notably Rumours
Na Hong-jin
Director
1 film together
Notably Hope
Olivier Assayas
Director
1 film together
Notably The Wizard of the Kremlin
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Alex Garland
Director
1 film together · 7.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Ex MachinaJustin Chon
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Blue BayouJames Kent
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Testament of YouthDerek Cianfrance
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Light Between OceansGuy Ritchie
Director
1 film together · 7.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.Mike Newell
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
One Red Nose Day and a WeddingNa Hong-jin
Director
1 film together · 6.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
HopeJoe Wright
Director
1 film together · 6.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Anna KareninaDavid Lowery
Director
1 film together · 6.6 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Green KnightOlivier Assayas
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Wizard of the KremlinJulie Taymor
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The GloriasJustin Chadwick
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Tulip FeverJohn Wells
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
BurntPaul Greengrass
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jason BourneLisa Langseth
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
EuphoriaBill Condon
Director
1 film together · 6.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Fifth EstateWash Westmoreland
Director
1 film together · 5.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Earthquake BirdWim Wenders
Director
1 film together · 5.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
SubmergenceGuy Maddin
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
RumoursSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
A Royal Affair
as Caroline Mathilde
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
A Royal Affair
as Caroline Mathilde
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Ex Machina
as Ava
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Faith
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
A Royal Affair
as Caroline Mathilde
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Alicia Vikander has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
19 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Ex Machina
as Ava
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Hope
as J'aur
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Faith
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Beckett
as April Hanson
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
as Gaby Teller
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jason Bourne
as Heather Lee
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
as Faith
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
A Royal Affair
as Caroline Mathilde
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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