You know Alice Krige’s face. Throughout her four decades as an actor in theatre, film, and TV, there hasn’t been another quite like it: the severe cheekbones, the cupid’s bow lips, and most importantly, the intense stares that betray complex mental machinations going on inside – as if she’s always tapping into an unseen dimension, force, or wavelength.
For audiences, it’s a face – and an accompanying performance – that instantly elevates any project on the big or small screen: Mary Brady in 1992’s Sleepwalkers, the Borg Queen in 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact, the evil priestess Christabella in 2006’s Silent Hill, Holda the witch in 2020’s Gretel & Hansel, and, more recently, the ill-fated orphanage caretaker in 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre. How many faces, after all, can claim to…
