Christine McKenna

Christine McKenna (born 1951) was a British actress during the 1970s and 1980s and 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, Great Expectations, and was "Polly" in, The Boy Friend, with Glynis Johns, "Sally Bowles" in, Cabaret, and "Moll" in Moll Flanders.^[1]

McKenna was also a member of the Royal Lyceum Theatre company, in Edinburgh, and with that company appeared in Kidnapped, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and played the "Principal Girl" in several traditional pantomimes.^[1]

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 Mask of Murder (1985).^[2][1]

McKenna relates in her autobiography, Why Didn't They Tell The Horses?, that when she auditioned for the part of "Christina" in, Flambards, her most notable role, she had never ridden a horse before. She was so determined to gain the part that she described the horse-obsessed childhood of a friend as her own and got the part. McKenna then had to learn to ride sidesaddle very quickly.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} McKenna on The Byre Theatre website
2. ^ Christine McKenna at the Internet Movie Database
3. ^ McKenna, Christine Why Didn't They Tell The Horses? Published by Puffin Books (1981) ISBN 0140314539

External links

• McKenna's Filmography on the Internet Movie Database

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