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Christine Finn

Christine Finn
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As Barbara Judd in Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59)
Born 1929/1930
Wellington, Tamil Nadu, India
Died (aged 77)
Guildford, Surrey, England
Nationality English
Alma mater London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation Actress
Years active 1940s–1970s
Organization Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Bristol Old Vic
Television Quatermass and the Pit
Thunderbirds

Christine Finn (died 5 December 2007; Guildford, Surrey) was an English actress, known primarily for her role in the 1950s TV serial Quatermass and the Pit, and, after that, her voice work for the 1960s Thunderbirds television series. She also performed in film, radio and theatre in a career that started in the 1940s and lasted until the mid-1970s.

Finn was born and brought up in India. She moved to Britain in 1946, just before the end of British rule, and found a clerical job with the BBC. Noticed for a performance with the BBC Staff Amateur Company, she was then sent to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Her first professional work was a part in Edmond T. Gréville's film The Romantic Age (1949), followed by a juvenile lead in a tour of the play Random Harvest.

After joining the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, she remained in the company of actors for two years, departing with the role Lady Grey in Henry VI Part III at the Old Vic. A television role followed, as Mrs Crichton in Larger Than Life. At the Arts Theatre in London, she played Sybil Merton in the play Lord Arthur Saville's Crime. She returned to Birmingham to play David in The Boy David; then, back in London, as Ophelia in Hamlet and Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Central School of Speech and Drama's Embassy Theatre.


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