South African actress who created the role of the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact and reprised it in Voyager's finale.
Alice Krige, a South African actress born in 1954, played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact, giving the collective a single seductive and menacing voice as she tries to win over Data and reclaim Picard. The character became one of the most recognizable villains of the Next Generation era.
Krige returned to the role in the Voyager series finale Endgame. Her breakthrough came in 1981 with Chariots of Fire and Ghost Story, and she has since worked extensively in film and television.