Birthday: Jun 28, 1954

Birthplace: Upinton, South Africa

Biography: Alice Maud Krige was born in Upington, South Africa on June 28, 1954 where her father, Dr. Louis Krige, worked as a young physician. The Kriges later moved to Port Elizabeth where Alice grew up in what she describes as a "very happy family," a family that also included two older brothers (both of whom became physicians) and her mother, Pat, a clinical psychologist. "I just remember it as being supremely safe and very warm," she says. "It was an absolutely golden childhood." Interestingly, ... ... (read more...) she also grew up without television, something which the actress calls a "huge black hole in my education" (South Africa didn't start getting television until 1976, a year after Alice left the country to pursue an acting career in London...the South African system of apartheid would continue for yet another 18 years).