Alicia Vikander to star in Netflix's Enigma Variations with expanded cast

Riley Keough, Devon Terrell, Nicholas Podany and Carl Clemons-Hopkins have joined the cast of Netflix's upcoming limited series Enigma Variations.

The series is based on the novel of the same name by André Aciman.

According to Deadline, the four actors will star alongside lead cast members Alicia Vikander and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the adaptation, CE Report quotes ANA-MPA.

Alicia Amanda Vikander (born 3 October 1988) is a Swedish actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.

Born and raised in Gothenburg, Vikander began acting as a child in minor stage productions at the Gothenburg opera house and trained as a ballet dancer at the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. She began her acting career in Swedish short films and television series and first gained recognition for her role in the drama series Andra Avenyn (2008–2010). She made her feature film debut in Pure (2010), for which she won the Guldbagge Award for Best Actress. She gained wider recognition in 2012 for playing Kitty in Joe Wright's period drama Anna Karenina and Queen Caroline Mathilde in the Danish film A Royal Affair.

Vikander achieved global recognition for her roles as Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth (2014), as Ava, a humanoid robot in Ex Machina (2014), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and as Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl (2015), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2016, Vikander was listed by Forbes in its 30 Under 30 list. She has since starred in the action film Jason Bourne (2016), the adventure film Tomb Raider (2018), the fantasy film The Green Knight (2021), and the miniseries Irma Vep (2022).

She married German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender in 2017.

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