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Alice Krige
Upington, South Africa
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 Ch…
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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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2025
Wildcat
Movie Mrs. Christina Vine
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2025
The Restoration at Grayson Manor
Movie Jacqueline Grayson
- 2024
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2023
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
Movie Borg Queen (voice)
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2023
The Rig
TV show Lennox
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2022
She Will
Movie Veronica
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2022
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie Mrs. Mc.
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2021
Echoes of the Past
Movie Andrea Foss
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2020
The Bay of Silence
Movie Vivian
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2020
Star Trek: Lower Decks
TV show Borg Queen (voice)
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2020
Gretel & Hansel
Movie Witch
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2020
Star Trek: Picard
TV show The Borg Queen (voice)
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2019
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
Movie Helena Charlton
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2019
Carnival Row
TV show Haruspex Tsimani
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2019
A Rose in Winter
Movie Anna Reinach
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2018
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
Movie Helena Charlton
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2018
The Alienist
TV show Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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2017
A Christmas Prince
Movie Helena Charlton
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2017
The Little Vampire 3D
Movie Freda Sackville-Bagg (voice)
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2016
The OA
TV show Nancy Johnson
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2015
Partners in Crime
TV show Rita Vandemeyer
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2014
Tyrant
TV show Amira Al-Fayeed
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2013
Thor: The Dark World
Movie Eir
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2012
Jail Caesar
Movie Pirate Captain
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2012
The Syndicate
TV show Lady Hazelwood
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2011
Will
Movie Sister Carmel
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2011
Page Eight
Movie Emma Baron
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2010
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Movie Morgana le Fay
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2010
Inside The Institute
Movie
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2009
Solomon Kane
Movie Katherine Crowthorn
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2009
Skin
Movie Sannie Lang
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2008
The Betrayed
Movie Falco
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2007
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Movie Letizia
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2007
Dirty Sexy Money
TV show
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2007
Ten Inch Hero
Movie Zo
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2007
Persuasion
Movie Lady Russell
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2006
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
Movie Self
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2006
The Line of Beauty
TV show Rachel Fedden
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2006
Lonely Hearts
Movie Janet Long
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2006
Silent Hill
Movie Christabella
