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Christine McKenna


Christine McKenna (born 1951) is a British actress active during the 1970s and 1980s, best known for playing "Christina" in the television series Flambards.

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).


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