Cristina Raines

Cristina Raines ( born February 28, 1952 in Manila, Philippines as Tina Herazo ) is a former American film actress who has worked 1973-1991 in a variety of films and television series.

Life

Had her breakthrough as an actress Raines in the movie Sunshine, where she played the role of young cancer-stricken Kate, who writes a diary for her little daughter Jill that will help her if she is no more. 1973 The film is based on the true story of Jacqueline M. Helton, which was written by Carol Sobieski after their diaries. 1975 Raines worked in Robert Altman's film Nashville with over the American country music scene in a smaller role. In Ridley Scott's first major film The Duellists of 1977, based on a story by Joseph Conrad, Raines played alongside Keith Carradine, with whom she lived at the time. In the same year, the actress played the lead role in the horror thriller Witches' Sabbath, in which she played a photo model, which has rented in a spooky New York apartment house. In the American miniseries Loose Change from 1978 she played one of three girlfriends who remain connected to each other even after their time at school. Also in 1978, Raines was given the role of Lucinda McKeag Zendt in the historical epic saga Colorado, a literary adaptation by James Michener, which she starred in ten episodes of the series. A wide audience was the actress best known for her starring role in subsequent of then-popular American soap opera Flamingo Road, where she played the honky-tonk singer Lane Ballou Curtis. 1980 Raines appeared in the racing film Silver Dream Racer and 1983, she played a lead role in the horror film Nightmares ( German title nightmares ).

In the aftermath Raines appeared in various television series, such as head physician Dr. Welby, A Fall Guy, Murder, She Wrote, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Highway to Heaven, The Moonlighting and 1991 in an episode of the American drama series TV fever ( OT: WIOU ).

The actress is married to the writer, director and producer Christopher Crowe since 1984. The couple has two children.

Filmography (selection)

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