Cristina Raines
| Cristina Raines | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 February 1952 Manila, Philippines |
Cristina Raines (born Cristina Herazo; 28 February 1952) is an American nurse and former actress. She achieved her big break in the TV movie Sunshine, with Cliff De Young.
Raines was born in Manila, Philippines to American parents. She grew up the daughter of a chemical engineer and a dancer. Her paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Colombia and her paternal grandmother was of Swedish and German ancestry, while her mother is of Scotch-Irish descent.
Raine's first major role was co-starring as a central character in the 1978 television miniseries, Centennial. Originally a novel by James Michener, the program was a 26-hour epic depicting the history of Colorado and is one of the first groundbreaking miniseries' created for television. Raines' role was that of Lucinda McKeag Zendt, an Arapaho and French-Canadian woman. Living during the 1840s through the 1880s, Raines' character was born to an Arapaho mother and trapper father named Pasquinel who hailed from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Following the death of her father, her mother married another trapper, a Scotsman named Alexander McKeag, who adopted the young Indian girl as his own. In young adulthood, Lucinda McKeag married a Pennsylvania Mennonite farmer who had left his home in the east for the west. They settled together in a western Colorado Territory outpost originally called "Zendt's Farm" that later became a town named "Centennial". Raines was featured in ten of the twelve Centennial episodes.
Raines is also known for her role as Lane Ballou in the 1980s prime-time soap opera, Flamingo Road. Other TV credits include: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Kojak, Fantasy Island, Hotel, The Love Boat, Simon and Simon, Matt Houston, The Fall Guy, T.J. Hooker, Murder She Wrote, Riptide, Highway to Heaven, The Tenth Month, and Moonlighting.
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