Alice Krige

Acting · Born 1954-06-28 in 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…

Filmography

  • Star Trek: First Contact as Borg Queen
  • Joseph as Rahel
  • Persuasion as Lady Russell
  • Lonely Hearts as Janet Long
  • Silent Hill as Christabella
  • The Contract as Miles
  • Barfly as Tully Sorenson
  • The Little Vampire as Freda Sackville-Bagg
  • Ghost Story as Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
  • Chariots of Fire as Sybil Gordon

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