Alice Krige

Alice Krige
Alice Krige
	Alice Krige, 1 October 2006
Born	Alice Maud Krige; 28 June 1954 (age 70); Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Paul Schoolman (1988–present)

Alice Maud Krige (/ˈkriːɡə/; born 28 June 1954) is a South African actress. 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 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. A year after the series ended, she reprised the role in "Borg Invasion 4-D" at Star Trek: The Experience.

Early life

Krige was born in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa, the daughter of Pat, a psychologist, and Louis Krige, a physician. The Kriges later moved to Port Elizabeth where Alice grew up in what she describes as a "very happy family", with two brothers, both of whom became physicians.^[1]^[2] She left for London, England, in 1976, with plans to become a clinical psychologist, but turned to acting after an experience in an acting class at Rhodes University.^{[citation needed]} She then attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.^{[citation needed]}

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 earned a Plays and Players Award, as well as 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 United States and the United Kingdom,^{[citation needed]} including made for television movies from Baja Oklahoma (1988) and Ladykiller (1992), to mini-series such as Ellis Island (1984) and Scarlet and Black (1993). She also performed in several horror 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 that role.^[2] Krige returned to this character in the Star Trek game Star Trek: Armada II and in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale "Endgame" in 2001.

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]

In 2008, she had a leading role as Sannie Laing, Sandra's mother, in Skin, the biopic about Sandra Laing, who was classified "Coloured" by the South African authorities during Apartheid, although her parents were white.

In 2011, Krige was a major supporting character throughout the BBCs final season (Series 10) of Spooks, playing Russian double agent Elena Gavrik. Krige also featured in the final season of BBC drama Waking the Dead, in 2011.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

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

Filmography

Title	Year	Special Notes	Character
'	1979	TV series	??
A Tale of Two Cities	1980	TV	Lucie Manette
Chariots of Fire	1981		Sybil Gordon
Ghost Story	1981		Eva Galli/Alma Mobley
The Professionals	1982	TV series	Diana Molner
Ellis Island	1984	(mini) TV Series	Bridget O'Donnell
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	1985	TV	Baroness Lisl Kemeny
King David	1985		Bathsheba
Murder, She Wrote	1985	TV series	Nita Cochran
Dream West	1986	(mini) TV Series	Jessie Benton Fremont
Second Serve	1986	TV	Gwen
Barfly	1987		Tully Sorenson
Spies Inc.	1988		Isabelle
Baja Oklahoma	1988	TV	Patsy Cline
Haunted Summer	1988		Mary Godwin
See You in the Morning	1989		Beth Goodwin
Max and Helen	1990	TV	Helen Weiss
The Strauss Dynasty	1991	(mini) TV Series	Olga
Amérique en otage, L	1991	TV	Parveneh Limbert
The Hidden Room	1991	TV series	Jennifer
Sleepwalkers	1992		Mary Brady
Ladykiller^{[disambiguation needed]}	1992	TV	May Packard
Beverly Hills, 90210	1992	TV series	Anne Berrisford
Judgment Day: The John List Story	1993	TV	Jean Syfert
Double Deception	1993	TV	Pamela Sparrow
Scarlet and Black	1993	(mini) BBC TV series	Madame de Renal
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor	1993	TV	Joan Anatole
Sea Beggars	1994		Wife
Sharpe's Honour	1994	TV	La Marquesa
Devil's Advocate	1995	TV	Alessandra Locatelli
Joseph	1995	TV	Rachel
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life	1995		Lisa Benjamenta
Donor Unknown	1995	TV	Alice Stillman
Star Trek: First Contact	1996		Borg Queen
Hidden in America	1996	TV	Dee
Amanda	1996		Audrey Farnsworth
Habitat	1997		Clarissa Symes
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs	1997		Zephyr Eccles
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan	1997	TV	Rebecca Daly
The Commissioner	1998		Isabelle Morton
Close Relations	1998	(mini) TV series	Louise
Welome to Paradox	1998	TV series	Aura Mendoza
Deep in My Heart	1999	TV	Annalise Jurgenson
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien	1999		Mother Marianne Cope
In the Company of Spies	1999	TV	Sarah Gold
Becker	1999	TV series	Sondra Rush
The Little Vampire	2000		Freda Sackville-Bagg
The Calling	2000		Elizabeth Plummer
Attila	2001	TV	Placidia
Superstition	2001		Mirella Cenci
Vallen	2001		Monique
Star Trek: Armada II	2001	VG (voice)	Borg Queen
Star Trek: Voyager	2001	TV series	Borg Queen
Dinotopia	2002	(mini) TV series	Rosemary Waldo
Six Feet Under	2002	TV	Alma
Reign of Fire	2002		Karen Abercromby
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton	2003	TV	Snubby Eaton
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune	2003	(mini) TV series	Lady Jessica
Threat Matrix	2003–2004	TV series	Senator Lilly Randolph
The Mystery of Natalie Wood	2004	TV	Maria Gurdin
Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion 4D	2004	Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas	Borg Queen
Shadow of Fear	2004		Margie Henderson
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure^[3]^[4]	2005	TV	Joan Collins
Deadwood	2004	TV Series	Maddie (2005)
Silent Hill	2006		Christabella
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2006	TV series	Gillian Booth
Stay Alive	2006		The Author
The Line of Beauty	2006	TV	Rachel Fedden
The 4400	2006	TV series	Sarah Rutledge
Lonely Hearts	2006		Janet Fay
The Contract	2006		Miles
Ten Inch Hero	2007		Zo
Persuasion	2007		Lady Russell
Heroes and Villains: Napoleon	2007	TV	Laetitia Ramolino
Solomon Kane	2008		Katherine Crowthorn
Midsomer Murders: Secrets and Spies	2009	TV	Jenny Frazer
Skin	2009		Sannie Laing
The Sorcerer's Apprentice	2010		Morgana
Waking The Dead	2011	TV	Karen Harding
Will	2011	Film	Sister Carmel
Page Eight	2011	TV Film	Emma Baron
Spooks	2011	TV	Elena Gavrik

References

^ Alice Krige biodata at Yahoo! Movies
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e The Alice Krige Home Page biography
^ Heffernan, Virginia (1 January 2005). "Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure: If You've Got It, Flaunt It: ABC Trumpets an 80's Hit". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2009.
^ "Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure: Credits". Der-denver-clan.de. Retrieved 27 February 2009.

External links

Alice Krige at IMDb
Alice Krige at AllMovie
Alice Krige at Memory Alpha
Alice Krige interview at www.sci-fi-online.com
Alice Krige at Who's Who Southern Africa

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[1] Alice Krige biodata at Yahoo! Movies

[krige-bio-2] The Alice Krige Home Page biography

[NYT_2005-01-3] Heffernan, Virginia (1 January 2005). "Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure: If You've Got It, Flaunt It: ABC Trumpets an 80's Hit". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 February 2009.

[4] "Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure: Credits". Der-denver-clan.de. Retrieved 27 February 2009.

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