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Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
28 Jun, 1954 (70 years old)

Alice Krige

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.

Known For

Texas Chainsaw Massacre
83 min 2022

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Horror Movie
The Bay of Silence
93 min 2020

The Bay of Silence

Thriller Movie
Gretel & Hansel
87 min 2020

Gretel & Hansel

Fantasy Movie
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
84 min 2019

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby

Romance Movie
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
92 min 2018

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

Romance Movie
A Christmas Prince
92 min 2017

A Christmas Prince

Romance Movie