Alice Krige

Best Known As...

Alice is most familiar to sci-fi fans as the Borg Queen from Star Trek: First Contact and the series finale of Star Trek: Voyager.

Current / Recent Work

Alice has recently appeared as the Lady Jessica Atreides in the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Frank Herbert's Children of Dune, and recently completed work as the Borg Queen for the 3-D theme park ride Star Trek: Borg Encounter.

Bio

Born and raised in South Africa, Alice attended Rhodes University where she planned to train as a clinical psychologist. At school, the University started a drama school and with one free credit, Alice took a dramatic acting class. She decided that she wanted to act and so she next attended The Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Alice made her professional acting debut on British Television in 1979 and appeared in the Television movie A Tale of Two Cities (1980). She went on to roles such as Sybil in Chariots of Fire (1981) and Eva in Ghost Story (1981). She has played Bathsheba in King David (1985) and Mary in Haunted Summer (1988).

She has appeared on stage in plays such as the production of Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved. Alice has appeared in what she calls "Tons of TV" in both the U.S. and U.K. This includes made for Television movies from Baja Oklahoma (1988) and Ladykiller (1992), to mini series from Ellis Island (1984) and Scarlet & Black (1993). In the eighth Star Trek movie, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), she plays the Borg Queen who is on a mission to assimilate Earth into the Borg collective.

She chose not to reprise her portrayal on Star Trek: Voyager. Actress Susanna Thompson played the Borg Queen a few times on Voyager, but she was not available during the filming of the show's final episode, so Alice resumed the role for the finale.