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Alice Krige

Alice Krige

· Upington, South Africa

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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.

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Filmography

Acting (113)

  1. 2023

  2. 2022

  3. 2021

  4. 2020

  5. 2019

  6. 2018

  7. 2017

  8. 2016

  9. 2015

  10. 2014

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  12. 2012

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  15. 2009

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  20. 2004

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  25. 1999

  26. 1998

  27. 1997

  28. 1996

  29. 1995

  30. 1994

  31. 1993

  32. 1992

  33. 1991

  34. 1990

  35. 1989

  36. 1988

  37. 1987

  38. 1986

  39. 1985

  40. 1984

  41. 1983

  42. 1981

  43. 1980

  44. 1977

  45. 1976

  46. 1962

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