From The Film Encyclopedia:
Krige, Alice. Actress. Born on June 28, 1954, in Upington, South Africa. Pretty, refined brunette leading lady of British and American films. Moving to London at 22, she attended the School of Speec and Drama and began performing on TV. She made her screen and London stage debuts in 1981, appearing in a West End revival of Shaw's 'Arms and the Man' and in the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.
From the Internet Movie Database:
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 miniseries' from Ellis Island (1984) and Scarlet & Black (1993). In the eighth Star Trek movie, Star Trek: First Contact (1996), she played the Borg Queen who is on a mission to assimilate Earth into the Borg collective.
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