
Alice Krige
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1954-06-28
Place of birth: Upington, South Africa
Biography
Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress and producer. Her first feature film role was as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon in the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Since then, she has played a variety of roles in a number of genres. Krige first played the role of the Borg Queen in the motion picture Star Trek: First Contact and reprised the role for the final episode of the television series Star Trek: Voyager. A year after the series ended, she reprised the role in "Borg Invasion 4-D" at Star Trek: The Experience. She attended Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she pursued an undergraduate degree in psychology and literature, but quickly turned to acting, earning an honors degree in drama from Rhodes, before a moving to London to pursue a new career path. Once in England, she studied drama at the London Central School of Speech and Drama before making her acting performance debut in the 1979 BBC Play for Today. Â After achieving critical acclaim for her role in Chariot's of Fire, and continued to star and support in both film and stage theater throughout the 1980s. Â This eclectic trend continued into the 1990s before turning to television for both starring and reoccurring minor roles in prominent television series. Â In addition, she continued to make sporadic convention appearances and was recently awarded an honorary doctorate in literature from Rhodes University. Alice Krige is married to writer/director, Paul Schoolman, and lives what she describes as an "itinerant" lifestyle. Although she and her husband maintain a permanent home in the United States, they spend much of their time living and working abroad.
Known for

Star Trek: First Contact
1996Borg Queen
Lonely Hearts
2006Janet Long
Silent Hill
2006Christabella
The Contract
2006Miles
Joseph
1995Rachel
Barfly
1987Tully Sorenson
Inside The Institute
2010
The Little Vampire
2000Freda Sackville-Bagg
Ghost Story
1981Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
Chariots of Fire
1981Sybil Gordon
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2010Morgana le Fay
The Commissioner
1998Isabelle Morton
Solomon Kane
2009Katherine Crowthorn
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
1995Lisa Benjamenta
Persuasion
2007Lady Russell
Haunted Summer
1988Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
King David
1985Bathsheba
Ten Inch Hero
2007Zo
The Calling
2000Elizabeth Plummer