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.
Early life Krige was born in Upington, Cape Province,
South Africa, the daughter of Pat, a psychologist, and Louis Krige, a physician.
The Kriges later moved to Port Elizabeth where Alice grew up in what she has described as
a "very happy family", with two brothers, both of whom became physicians.
She left for London, England, in 1976, with plans to become a clinical psychologist, but
turned to acting after an experience in an acting class at Rhodes University.
She then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Career Krige made her professional debut on British
television in 1979, and appeared in the television movie A Tale of Two Cities.
She went on to play Sybil Gordon in Chariots of Fire and Eva Galli/Alma Mobley in Ghost
Story, both in 1981.
She earned a Plays and Players Award, as well as a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising
Newcomer, after appearing in a 1981 West End theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's
Arms and the Man.
This early theatrical success allowed her to also work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Krige played Bathsheba in King David and Mary Shelley in Haunted Summer.
She appeared on stage in plays such as Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd.
She appeared in what she called "tons of TV" in both the United States and the United Kingdom,
including made for television movies from Baja Oklahoma and Ladykiller, to mini-series
such as Ellis Island and Scarlet and Black.
She also performed in several horror films, including Ghost Story, Sleepwalkers, Stay
Alive, and Silent Hill.
In Star Trek: First Contact, Krige played the Borg Queen, who attempts to assimilate
Earth into the Borg collective.
She won Best Supporting Actress at the 1997 Saturn Awards for that role.
Krige returned to this character in the Star Trek game Star Trek: Armada II and in the
Star Trek: Voyager series finale "Endgame" in 2001.
Her science fiction career has also expanded into television, with prominent roles in miniseries
adaptations of Dinotopia and Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.
In April 2004, Krige was awarded an honorary Litt.D. degree from Rhodes University.
Krige starred in a number of made-for-television movies and miniseries.
She played the role of Natalie Wood's bad mother in The Mystery of Natalie Wood, and
starred as Joan Collins in Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure.
She had recurring roles in Deadwood, and guest starred in Six Feet Under, Law & Order: Criminal
Intent, The 4400, and Dirty Sexy Money In 2008, she had a leading role as Sannie
Laing, Sandra's mother, in Skin, the biopic about Sandra Laing, who was classified "Coloured"
by the South African authorities during Apartheid, although her parents were white.
In 2011, Krige appeared in the BBCs final season of Spooks, playing Russian double agent
Elena Gavrik.
Krige also featured in the final season of BBC drama Waking the Dead, in 2011.
In recent years, Krige appeared in films Solomon Kane, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Thor:
The Dark World.
Personal life Krige has been married to writer and director
Paul Schoolman since 1988.
Filmography Film
Television References
External links Alice Krige at the Internet Movie Database
Alice Krige at the TCM Movie Database Alice Krige at AllMovie
Alice Krige interview at www.sci-fi-online.com Alice Krige at Who's Who Southern Africa