She gained fame as Anna Gripenhielm in the soap opera Nya tider and later Chrissy Eriksson in the soap Ocean Ave in 2002. She has also appeared in the horror film Drowning Ghost in 2004 and Vi in 2013 along with Gustaf Skarsgård. In 2013 she played in The White Queen earning herself a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.
Because of her performance in the White Queen Tom Cruise, handpicked her to star alongside him in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation as Ilsa Faust, the female lead.She then replayed the role in the film’s follow-up, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, in 2018. She also starred opposite Sam Reid and Charles Dance in the thriller Despite The Falling Snow in 2016. For this, she won the best Actress award at the Prague Independent Film Festival in 2016. Later, in the same year, she played in Florence Foster Jenkins and The Girl On The Train.
She played in the sci-fi thriller Life opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, Co- starred in the crime thriller The Snowman with Michael Fassbender and Charlotte Gainsbourg and starred in the musical film The Greatest Showman in 2017 alongside Hugh Jackman and Michelle Williams.
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