Oscar Nominee Spotlight: Alicia Vikander on the Rise

Freshly minted Oscar nominee Alicia Vikander is competing in the Best Supporting Actress category for her role in The Danish Girl as the wife of a transgender pioneer (fellow nominee Eddie Redmayne) — solidifying her status as one of Hollywood’s ‘It’ actors. She also received strong notices for the critical hit Ex Machina (which got an Oscar nod for Original Screenplay), in which she plays a robot. All told, Vikander, 27, appeared in five films in 2015. Click through to review her breakthrough year and all the stops on her way to the upcoming Academy Awards.