Alice Krige

Also Known As: Alice Maud Krige, آلیس کریج

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.   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.  This eclectic trend continued into the 1990s before turning to television for both starring and reoccurring minor roles in prominent television series.  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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Upington, South Africa

Adult: No

Birthday: June 28, 1954

Age: 70 years old

Gender: Female

Popularity:

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Known For:

Star Trek: First Contact
Lonely Hearts
Silent Hill
The Contract
Joseph
Barfly
Inside The Institute
The Little Vampire
Ghost Story
Chariots of Fire
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Commissioner
Solomon Kane
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Persuasion
Haunted Summer
King David
Ten Inch Hero
The Calling
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
A Tale of Two Cities
Shadow of Fear
Page Eight
Sharpe's Honour
Thor: The Dark World
Habitat
See You in the Morning
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
Superstition
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Iran: Days of Crisis
Reign of Fire
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Second Serve
Hidden in America
Arms and the Man
The Betrayed
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Spies, Inc.
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton
Vergeet My Nie
Deep in My Heart
The Strauss Dynasty
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Jail Caesar
Amanda
Sharpe: The Legend
Dinotopia
Double Deception
A Christmas Prince
The Little Vampire 3D
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
A Rose in Winter
Skin
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Gretel & Hansel
Donor Unknown
Ladykiller
The Bay of Silence
Sleepwalkers
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
In the Company of Spies
Will
Max and Helen
Falling
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Echoes of the Past
Attila
She Will
Baja Oklahoma
The Sandman
The Happy Autumn Fields
Discovering Dinotopia
Stay Alive
Lioness
To the Journey - Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager