Cristina Raines, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Cristina Raines

American actress

Date of Birth: 28-Feb-1952

Place of Birth: Manila, Luzon, Philippines

Profession: actor, nurse, television actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Cristina Raines

  • Cristina Raines (née Herazo; born February 28, 1952) is an American former actress and model who appeared in numerous films throughout the 1970s, mainly horror films and period pieces.
  • She went on to have a prolific career as a television actress throughout the 1980s. Born in Manila, Philippines to American parents, Raines was primarily raised in Florida.
  • After graduating high school, she relocated to New York City to pursue a career as a model, and signed with the Ford Modeling Agency.
  • Urged by Eileen Ford to audition for acting roles, Raines was subsequently cast as a lead in the independent horror film Hex (1973), opposite Keith Carradine and Scott Glenn.
  • She had a minor part in the Charles Bronson-led thriller The Stone Killer, followed by a lead in the television film Sunshine, in which she played a young mother with terminal cancer. In 1975, Raines was cast in a supporting role in Robert Altman's ensemble comedy Nashville, portraying a folk singer, followed by a lead in the supernatural horror film The Sentinel (1977), in which she starred as a model tormented by supernatural goings-on in her new apartment building.
  • Raines also co-starred in Ridley Scott's directorial debut, The Duellists (1977), a period piece based on the Napoleonic Wars. Raines had her first major television role in the twelve-part miniseries Centennial (1978), playing the daughter of a fur trapper in 1800s Colorado.
  • Raines continued to act throughout the 1980s, with such film credits as the anthology horror film Nightmares (1983).
  • She spent the majority of the decade acting in television, notably with a lead role on the NBC series Flamingo Road (1980–1982).
  • She appeared as Poppea in the miniseries Quo Vadis? in 1985, followed by guest-starring roles on Riptide (1985), Hotel (1987), and The Highwaymen (1988).
  • In 1991, she formally retired from acting and pursued a career as a nurse, specializing in patients undergoing kidney dialysis.

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