Alice Krige
Born June 28, 1954 (Age: 71)
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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. 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.
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.
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Filmography
She Will
2022
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as Veronica
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Age: 68
The Bay of Silence
2020
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as Vivian
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Age: 66
Gretel & Hansel
2020
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as Witch
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Age: 65
Thor: The Dark World
2013
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as Eir
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Age: 59
Will
2011
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as Sister Carmel
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Age: 57
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
2010
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as Morgana le Fay
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Age: 56
Inside The Institute
2010
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as
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Age: 55
Solomon Kane
2009
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as Katherine Crowthorn
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Age: 55
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
2007
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as Letizia
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Age: 53
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
2006
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as Self
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Age: 52
Lonely Hearts
2006
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as Janet Long
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Age: 51
Silent Hill
2006
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as Christabella
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Age: 51
The Contract
2006
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as Miles
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Age: 51
Stay Alive
2006
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as The Author (uncredited)
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Age: 51
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
2005
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as Joan Collins
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Age: 50
Reign of Fire
2002
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as Karen Abercromby
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Age: 48
Discovering Dinotopia
2002
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as Rosemary
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Age: 47
Dinotopia
2002
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as Rosemary
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Age: 47
The Calling
2000
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as Elizabeth Plummer
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Age: 46
The Sandman
2000
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as
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Age: 46
The Little Vampire
2000
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as Freda Sackville-Bagg
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Age: 46
The Commissioner
1998
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as Isabelle Morton
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Age: 43
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
1997
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as Rebecca Daly
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Age: 43
Sharpe: The Legend
1997
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as La Marquesa
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Age: 43
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
1997
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as Zephyr Eccles
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Age: 43
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
1997
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as Self - actress
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Age: 43
Habitat
1997
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as Clarissa Symes
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Age: 42
Hidden in America
1996
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as Dee
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Age: 42
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
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as Borg Queen
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Age: 42
Amanda
1996
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as Audrey Farnsworth
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Age: 41
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
1993
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as Mrs. Anatole
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Age: 39
Double Deception
1993
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as Pamela Sparrow
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Age: 38
Judgment Day: The John List Story
1993
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as Jean Syfert
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Age: 38
Princess Furball
1993
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as Narrator
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Age: 38
Ladykiller
1992
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as May Packard
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Age: 38
Spies, Inc.
1992
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as Isabelle
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Age: 38
Sleepwalkers
1992
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as Mary Brady
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Age: 37
The Strauss Dynasty
1991
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as Olga
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Age: 36
Max and Helen
1990
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as Helen Weiss
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Age: 35
See You in the Morning
1989
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as Beth Goodwin
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Age: 34
Haunted Summer
1988
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as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
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Age: 34
Baja Oklahoma
1988
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as Patsy Cline
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Age: 33
Barfly
1987
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as Tully Sorenson
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Age: 33
King David
1985
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as Bathsheba
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Age: 30
Ghost Story
1981
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as Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
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Age: 27
Chariots of Fire
1981
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as Sybil Gordon
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Age: 26
A Tale of Two Cities
1980
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as Lucie Manette
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Age: 26
The Happy Autumn Fields
1980
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as Emily
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Age: 26