Alice Krige

Alice Krige
Alice Krige, 1 October 2006
Born	Alice Maud Krige June 28, 1954 (1954-06-28) (age 55) Upington, South Africa
Spouse(s)	Paul Schoolman

Alice Maud Krige (pronounced KREE-guh; born 28 June 1954) is a South African actress. Her first feature film role was as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil in the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Since then she has played an enormous variety of roles in a wide number of genres.

Krige introduced 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.

Early life and family

Krige was born in Upington, South Africa, the daughter of Pat, a psychologist, and Louis Krige, a physician.^[1][2] She left for London, England, in 1976. Initially she had 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.

Krige is married to the writer and director Paul Schoolman.^[2]

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 received a Plays and Players Award, and 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.^[2] This early theatrical success allowed her to also work with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Krige played Bathsheba in King David (1985) and Mary Shelley in Haunted Summer (1988). 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 U.S. and the UK. This includes made for television movies from Baja Oklahoma (1988) and Ladykiller (1992), to mini-series such as Ellis Island (1984) and The Scarlet and the Black (1993).

Krige has performed in several horror feature films, including Ghost Story, Sleepwalkers, Stay Alive, and Silent Hill.

In Star Trek: First Contact, she played the Borg Queen, who attempts to assimilate Earth into the Borg collective. She won Best Supporting Actress at the 1997 Saturn Awards for her role.^[2] Krige returned to this role in the Star Trek game Star Trek: Armada II, and in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale "Endgame" in 2001 (Susanna Thompson played the role in four episodes of Voyager between 1999 and 2000).

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.^[2]

Filmography

References

External links

• Alice Krige at the Internet Movie Database
• Alice Krige interview at www.sci-fi-online.com
• Alice Krige at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)