Alice Krige
Acting • Born 1954-06-28
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.
Filmography
122 credits
Star Trek: First Contact
Movie • 1996
Borg Queen
Lonely Hearts
Movie • 2006
Janet Long
Silent Hill
Movie • 2006
Christabella
The Contract
Movie • 2006
Miles
Joseph
Movie • 1995
Rahel
Barfly
Movie • 1987
Tully Sorenson
Inside The Institute
Movie • 2010
The Little Vampire
Movie • 2000
Freda Sackville-Bagg
Ghost Story
Movie • 1981
Eva Galli / Alma Mobley
Chariots of Fire
Movie • 1981
Sybil Gordon
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Movie • 2010
Morgana le Fay
The Commissioner
Movie • 1998
Isabelle Morton
Solomon Kane
Movie • 2009
Katherine Crowthorn
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Movie • 1995
Lisa Benjamenta
Persuasion
Movie • 2007
Lady Russell
Haunted Summer
Movie • 1988
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
King David
Movie • 1985
Bathsheba
Ten Inch Hero
Movie • 2007
Zo
The Calling
Movie • 2000
Elizabeth Plummer
Star Trek: Picard - The IMAX Live Series Finale Event
Movie • 2023
Borg Queen (voice)
A Tale of Two Cities
Movie • 1980
Lucie Manette
Shadow of Fear
Movie • 2004
Margie Henderson
Page Eight
Movie • 2011
Emma Baron
Sharpe's Honour
Movie • 1994
La Marquesa
Thor: The Dark World
Movie • 2013
Eir
Habitat
Movie • 1997
Clarissa Symes
See You in the Morning
Movie • 1989
Beth Goodwin
Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
Movie • 2006
Self
Superstition
Movie • 2001
Mirella Cenci
Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan
Movie • 1997
Rebecca Daly
Judgment Day: The John List Story
Movie • 1993
Jean Syfert
Reign of Fire
Movie • 2002
Karen Abercromby
Jack Reed: Badge of Honor
Movie • 1993
Mrs. Anatole
Second Serve
Movie • 1986
Gwen
Hidden in America
Movie • 1996
Dee
Arms and the Man
Movie • 1983
Raina
The Betrayed
Movie • 2008
Falco
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Movie • 1997
Zephyr Eccles
Spies, Inc.
Movie • 1992
Isabelle
The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton
Movie • 2003
Snubby Eaton
Vergeet My Nie
Movie • 1976
Welma de Villiers
Deep in My Heart
Movie • 1999
Annalise Jurgenson
The Strauss Dynasty
Movie • 1991
Olga
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
Movie • 2004
Maria Gurdin
Jail Caesar
Movie • 2012
Pirate Captain
Amanda
Movie • 1996
Audrey Farnsworth
Sharpe: The Legend
Movie • 1997
La Marquesa
Dinotopia
Movie • 2002
Rosemary
Double Deception
Movie • 1993
Pamela Sparrow
A Christmas Prince
Movie • 2017
Queen Helena
The Little Vampire 3D
Movie • 2017
Freda Sackville-Bagg (voice)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien
Movie • 1999
Mother Marianne
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
Movie • 2018
Queen Helena
A Rose in Winter
Movie • 2019
Anna Reinach
Skin
Movie • 2009
Sannie Lang
Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure
Movie • 2005
Joan Collins
Gretel & Hansel
Movie • 2020
Witch
Donor Unknown
Movie • 1995
Alice Stillman
Ladykiller
Movie • 1992
May Packard
The Bay of Silence
Movie • 2020
Vivian
Sleepwalkers
Movie • 1992
Mary Brady
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
Movie • 2019
Queen Helena
In the Company of Spies
Movie • 1999
Sarah Gold
Will
Movie • 2011
Sister Carmel
Max and Helen
Movie • 1990
Helen Weiss
Falling
Movie • 2001
Monique
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Movie • 2022
Mrs. Mc.
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
Movie • 1997
Self - actress
Heroes & Villains: Napoleon
Movie • 2007
Letizia
Echoes of the Past
Movie • 2021
Andrea Foss
Attila
Movie • 2001
Placida
She Will
Movie • 2022
Veronica
Baja Oklahoma
Movie • 1988
Patsy Cline
The Sandman
Movie • 2000
The Happy Autumn Fields
Movie • 1980
Emily
Discovering Dinotopia
Movie • 2002
Rosemary
Stay Alive
Movie • 2006
The Author (uncredited)
Wildcat
Movie • 2025
Mrs. Christina Vine
To the Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager
Movie • 2024
Self
The Restoration at Grayson Manor
Movie • 2025
Jacqueline Grayson
Princess Furball
Movie • 1993
Narrator
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Nita Cochran
Threat Matrix
TV • 2003
Senator Lily Randolph
Six Feet Under
TV • 2001
Alma
Deadwood
TV • 2004
Maddie
The 4400
TV • 2004
Sarah
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV • 1990
Anne Berrisford
Star Trek: Voyager
TV • 1995
The Borg Queen
The Professionals
TV • 1977
Diana Molner
Dirty Sexy Money
TV • 2007
Becker
TV • 1998
Dr. Sondra Rush
Frank Herbert's Children of Dune
TV • 2003
Lady Jessica Atreides
Frank Herbert's Dune
TV • 2000
Dream West
TV • 1986
Jessie Benton Fremont
Star Trek: Picard
TV • 2020
The Borg Queen (voice)
NCIS
TV • 2003
Maggie Clarke
Star Trek: Lower Decks
TV • 2020
Borg Queen (voice)
The Syndicate
TV • 2012
Lady Hazelwood
Tyrant
TV • 2014
Amira Al-Fayeed
Waking the Dead
TV • 2001
Karen Harding
The OA
TV • 2016
Nancy Johnson
The Line of Beauty
TV • 2006
Rachel Fedden
Ellis Island
TV • 1984
Bridget O'Donnell
Dinotopia
TV • 2002
Rosemary Waldo
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Jenny Frazer
Partners in Crime
TV • 2015
Rita Vandemeyer
Scarlet and Black
TV • 1993
Madame de Renal
The Strauss Dynasty
TV • 1991
Olga
The Mystery of Natalie Wood
TV • 2004
Maria Gurdin
Attila
TV • 2001
Placida
Close Relations
TV • 1998
Louise
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Spooks
TV • 2002
Elena Gavrik
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV • 2001
Gillian Booth
Joseph
TV • 1995
Rachel
Carnival Row
TV • 2019
Haruspex Tsimani
Devil's Advocate
TV • 1995
Alessandra Locatelli
The Alienist
TV • 2018
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
TV • 1985
Baroness Lisl Kemeny
The Rig
TV • 2023
Lennox
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Emily
Iran: Days of Crisis
TV • 1991
Parveneh Limbert