Alice Krige was born in Upington, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, is a South African actress and producer. Her first feature film role was in Chariots of Fire (1981) as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon. Since then, she has played a variety of roles in various genres. She is well-known for playing the Borg Queen in the Star Trek franchise, beginning with the film Star Trek: First Contact.
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 Eva Galli/Alma Mobley in Ghost Story 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. She then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, playing Cordelia in "King Lear", Cordelia in Edward Bond's "Lear", Miranda in "The Tempest", Bianca in "The Taming of The Shrew," and Roxanne in "Cyrano de Bergerac". 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 at the Almeida Theatre in London and in "Toyer" at the Arts Theatre in the West End. She appeared in television movies as Baja Oklahoma (1988) and Ladykiller (1992), in mini-series such as Ellis Island (1984) and Scarlet and Black (1993), and in such horror films as Ghost Story, Sleepwalkers, and Silent Hill. Krige appeared in films Solomon Kane, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and Thor: The Dark World.
