Christine was born Christine Frances Schmidt in 1965 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to Denise Labash, and Hans Schmidt. Her father is of German descent, and her mother is of Syrian and Hungarian ancestry. When she was seven years old, her mother married Glen Robert from Hemmingford, Quebec and he formally adopted her. Due to his French-Canadian influence, she developed a passion to learn everything about French language and culture. French is her second language. She also studied German and Russian in undergraduate school and taught herself Italian before a trip to Italy in the mid-nineties. She also learned American Sign Language - inspired by her near deaf grandmother, Adele.Christine's early performing ambitions leaned toward the theatre. She became interested in acting while a young student in Aurora, Colorado and studied theatre throughout middle school, high school and college (Colorado State University, Fort Collins and the University of Colorado, Boulder). She landed the lead in Our Town as a freshman at CSU in 1983 as the naïve, wistful and forlorn Emily Webb Gibbs.Continuing studies at CU, Boulder, she pursued courses in film production, largely as a cinematographer and via other visual arts including painting, sculpture and performance art adopting the punk lifestyle, with a Mohawk in red, then grown out and dyed blue dreadlocks, and finally purple dyed hair with no particular hairstyle. In 1989 she relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film production. She produced in television (Night Flight, 1991-1992), creating original content and pitching, executing and editing musical artist interviews with Ozzy Osbourne, Simple Minds, Blues Traveller, the Sisters of Mercy, among others. She also directed photography in her own original productions and commercials.As soon as Christine turned her focus back on acting, she landed the lead in the original play, A Geographically Undesirable Romance in Los Angeles. Additionally, Christine has worked on many commercial, film and television projects, most recently as an Assistant District Attorney in 2016 Best Limited Series Emmy winning American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ Simpson directed by John Singleton, an American Sign Language Interpreter for the Indigo Girls performance in the second season of Transparent with Jeffrey Tambor and directed by 2016 Emmy winner Jill Soloway, a Burlesque Dancer in the third season of Masters of Sex (directed by Adam Arkin) and as Dirty Meg in the upcoming TV adaptation of the 1970s feature, Westworld starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Ed Harris. Show less «