Christina Chambers
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Christina Mae Chambers (born October 24, 1969, in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American actress and model.
Chambers was born into a family of academics, both parents holding doctorates (her father's in physics and her mother's in mathematics). She is the next-to-youngest of four siblings. Christina admits to being a tomboy at heart, and has never been very interested in her appearance. Her mother informed her at the age of six when she made her first acting debut that she looked petrified, however Christina says she always knew that she'd become an actress.
She studied Shakespeare at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and spent a semester in Stratford on Avon studying with the Royal Shakespeare Company, where she played the character Goneril in King Lear. After joining the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express she went on tour and played Juliet in Romeo & Juliet.
After leaving the tour, while in New York, that she took the big step away from Shakespeare. Chambers was spotted by a New York commercial agency who quickly signed her up, and by pure accident ended up signing with a New York modeling agent too. However, it wasn't until she met her acting agent Peter (who has agencies in New York and Lost Angeles) during a New York showcase that her acting career started to accelerate. On October 16, 1999 she married her present husband Brian Logue.
Chambers became best known to soap fans as Maria Torres-Evans on the NBC soap opera Sunset Beach from 1998 to 1999.
In 2004 (in what was a critically panned recast), Chambers temporarily took over Lesli Kay's role as Molly Conlan on As the World Turns for a few months.
In fall 2006, Chambers assumed the role of Marty Saybrooke (last played by Susan Haskell) on One Life to Live.
[edit] Filmography
- One Life to Live (2006 - present) - Marty Saybrooke Thornhart
- Fighting Tommy Riley (2005) - Stephanie
- Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels (2004) - Jaclyn Smith
- As the World Turns (2004) - Molly Peterson Conlan McKinnon
- Spyder Games (2001) - Taylor Jones
- Scam (2001) - Laura
- Sunset Beach (1998 - 1999) - Maria Torres-Evans
- Life 101 (1995) - Linda