Alice Krige
Alice Krige, 1 October 2006
Born	Alice Maud Krige (1954-06-28) 28 June 1954 (age 57) Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1980–present
Spouse	Paul Schoolman (1988–present)

Alice Maud Krige (pronounced /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[link]

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[link]

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.

Personal life[link]

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

Filmography[link]

Title	Year	Special Notes	Character
BBC: Play for Today	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
Judgement 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[link]

External links[link]

• Alice Krige at the Internet Movie Database
• Alice Krige at AllRovi
• Alice Krige at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Alice Krige interview at www.sci-fi-online.com
• Alice Krige at Who's Who Southern Africa

Lady Jessica (10,154-10,256 A.G.)^[1] is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. A key character in the 1965 science fiction novel Dune, Jessica also plays an important role in the later novel Children of Dune (1976). The events surrounding Jessica's conception, her birth and her early years with Leto are chronicled in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy (1999–2001) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. The character is brought back as a ghola in the Herbert/Anderson sequels which conclude the original series, Hunters of Dune (2006) and Sandworms of Dune (2007).

Jessica is described in Dune as having "hair like shaded bronze ... and green eyes" as well as an "oval face." This shape is later notable as a marker of Jessica's bloodline.^[5][6][7]

Lady Jessica was portrayed by Francesca Annis in the 1984 David Lynch film Dune. Saskia Reeves played the role in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune, and was succeeded by Alice Krige in the 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune.

According to the dedication of The Road to Dune (2005), the character of Jessica is patterned after Frank Herbert's wife Beverly Herbert.

The original series[link]

[edit] Dune

In accordance with Bene Gesserit protocol, Jessica was conceived by unnamed parents as part of the Bene Gesserit breeding program; she was raised to be a legal concubine to the Duke Leto Atreides I, and instructed to produce for him a daughter, but no sons. This daughter was to be wed to Feyd-Rautha, nephew of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and heir to House Harkonnen, healing the generations-old rift between House Atreides and House Harkonnen, and producing the Kwisatz Haderach for the Bene Gesserit. The Kwisatz Haderach is the long-sought-after male Reverend Mother-equivalent who possesses the Other Memory of his male line (something the all-female Bene Gesserit lack), as well as the female line.

However, Jessica falls in love with Leto, and produces a son for him, Paul (there is some indication that Jessica believed she could achieve the Kwisatz Haderach herself, one generation early). Paul is the Kwisatz Haderach, and eventually sets the Imperium on a course lasting thousands of years in the person of his son, Leto Atreides II. Much to the frustration of the Bene Gesserit, they do not control Paul, and the events of the coming millennia leave Jessica noteworthy as a figure of history who committed a great wrong (according to the Bene Gesserit); in the coming centuries, for a Bene Gesserit to choose her love over the instructions of her order is known as "the Jessica crime."^[8]

As Dune begins, Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Jessica's former instructor) is still furious over Jessica's insubordination, but is somewhat intrigued by the potential she sees in 15-year old Paul. House Atreides is given the planet Arrakis in fief-complete, taking possession (from House Harkonnen) of the only melange-producing world in the Imperium. The change of fief is a trap, however; shortly after committing themselves there, the Atreides are overcome by a Harkonnen invasion with the tacit support of the Emperor (using the Emperor's Sardaukar disguised as Harkonnen soldiers). The plot is made possible by the betrayal of the Duke by the family's Suk doctor, Wellington Yueh; Duke Leto is killed, and House Atreides is essentially destroyed. Paul and Jessica narrowly escape to the desert, finding refuge with the Fremen thanks to the legends planted there by the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva, which practices religious engineering. Jessica casts Paul as the Lisan al'Gaib, the messiah, and herself as the Reverend Mother who shall bring him, even though she has not yet experienced the spice agony that transforms an acolyte into a full Reverend Mother.

Paul soon molds the Fremen into a massive army with which he can retake the planet and restore his House. The Fremen have their own 'wild' Reverend Mothers, women who undergo their own version of the spice agony to awaken their Other Memory. With the Reverend Mother of their home sietch about to die and the group about to travel into the desert, Jessica accepts the ritual of the spice agony and becomes the Sayyadina of the tribe. Unfortunately, Jessica is pregnant with the Duke's daughter, Alia Atreides. For a fetus to undergo the spice agony results in what the Bene Gesserit call Abomination: because the ordeal awakens the ego-memories of one's ancestors, these children (also called "pre-born") experience this heightened awareness before they have formed a personality of their own. This makes them vulnerable to eventually being overtaken by one of their ancestral personalities. It is revealed that Jessica's father is none other than the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen; in Children of Dune, his is the ego-memory that possesses Alia, leading her to attempt the complete destruction of the restored House Atreides while she rules as regent.

[edit] Children of Dune

By the time of Dune Messiah, Jessica has returned to Caladan, the ancestral home of the Atreides. She has also, by some accounts, returned to the Sisterhood following the death of her Duke, and while she cannot influence Paul, she does act as distant counselor. It is also implied that she and Atreides Weapons Master Gurney Halleck have become lovers.^[2]

In Children of Dune, Jessica returns to Dune to inspect Paul's children, Leto II and Ghanima, to see if they can be returned to the control of the Sisterhood. Leto notes the identity of Jessica's birth mother: Tanidia Nerus.^[9] Realizing that Alia is fully possessed, Jessica survives an assassination attempt by Alia and flees to the desert once more, taking refuge with Fremen leader (and old friend) Stilgar in his sietch. A civil war has divided Arrakis, with Fremen revolting against the transformation of the desert started by Pardot Kynes. Alia's husband, Duncan Idaho, also realizes that Alia is possessed. When Alia instructs Duncan to make her mother disappear, Duncan kidnaps her on the orders of the Preacher, a mysterious desert figure that some suspect is Paul Atreides, who disappeared into the desert. Duncan takes her to Salusa Secundus, the home of exiled House Corrino and the previous Emperor, where the Preacher has told Jessica, through Duncan, to train the pupil she finds there: Prince Farad'n Corrino. She trains him in the Bene Gesserit way, and at the end of Children of Dune, he becomes Ghanima's concubine and Leto's Royal Scribe.

Jessica is quoted via epigraph in Heretics of Dune:

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. — The Lady Jessica, from Wisdom of Arrakis^[10]

In Chapterhouse: Dune it is noted that she "lived out her years on Caladan." According to the Appendix IV: The Almanak en-Ashraf (Selected Excerpts of the Noble Houses) in Dune, Lady Jessica dies in the year 10,256 A.G. after 102 years of life.

[edit] Prelude to Dune

In the Prelude to Dune series, it is revealed that Jessica's mother is in fact Mohiam; according to the authors, this fact was pulled directly from Frank Herbert's working notes for the original Dune series.^[11] In the storyline, Mohiam blackmails the homosexual Baron Harkonnen into a sexual encounter; when the first daughter she conceives proves genetically undesirable, she is forced to return. At this point the Baron drugs and viciously rapes Mohiam, and in retribution she secretly infects him with the disease that will later leave him horribly obese. The daughter born of this second union is Jessica.

The Prelude series also follows Jessica and Leto's relationship from their first meeting through the birth (and subsequent kidnapping and return) of their son Paul. It is indicated that Jessica's choice to bear a son is partially due to her desire to help Leto overcome the devastating loss of his first son, Victor, by his concubine Kailea Vernius.

Journal entries are attributed to Jessica via epigraph in the Prelude to Dune series:

• The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown. — Dune: House Harkonnen
• It is not easy for some men to know they have done evil, for reasoning and honor are often clouded by pride. — Dune: House Corrino
• There is no mystery about the source from which love draws its savage power: It comes from the flow of Life itself — a wild, torrential, outpouring that has its source in the most ancient of times... — Dune: House Corrino

Notes and references[link]