Name Christine McKenna Role Actress | Movies Mask of Murder | |
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Education The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Books Why Didn't They Tell the Horses? Similar People Alan Parnaby, K M Peyton, Christina McKenna, Steven Grives, Edward Judd | ||
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Christine McKenna (born 1951) is a British actress active during the 1970s and 1980s, best known for playing "Christina" in the television series Flambards.
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McKenna was a drama student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in the early 1970s. During her summer holidays she learned stage management and theatrical wardrobe at the Byre Theatre. Upon graduating, she appeared in productions for the National Theatre and in the West End of London, including Stephen Sondheim´s A Little Night Music with Jean Simmons and Hermione Gingold, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Great Expectations, and played "Polly" in The Boy Friend with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.
McKenna was also a member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre company in Edinburgh, and with that company appeared in Kidnapped and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and played the "Principal Girl" in several traditional pantomimes.
Her television credits include 41 episodes of The Kids from 47A (1973–4), playing Georgina Hogarth in Dickens of London with Roy Dotrice (1976), "Christina" in 13 episodes of Flambards (1979), Friends and Other Lovers (1981) for ITV Playhouse, and the film Mask of Murder (1985).
In her autobiography, "Why Didn't They Tell The Horses?", McKenna shares that prior to her audition for the role of "Christina" in "Flambards," her most distinguished performance, she had no experience with horseback riding. Her eagerness to secure the role led her to claim her friend's horse-centric upbringing as her own during the audition, which successfully landed her the part. Consequently, McKenna was quickly tasked with learning how to ride sidesaddle.