- Born
- Birth nameChristina N Griggs
- Born in London in 1939, Christina enjoyed extraordinary success as one of London's top models in the swinging sixties. During the era of David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, and Lord Snowden she graced the covers of numerous magazines, starred in many cinematic films and television series. Well-known through her acting and modeling work, she still enjoys fame with her many fans in the UK. Her book, "Beauty My Way" and exercise recording "Music 'n Motion." Christina understood the correlation between health and beautiful skin far before the current industry trends and in the 1980s founded Vitamin E, a company dedicated to promote health and beauty for the skin.
In the eighties she married and moved to Canada where she turned her endless energy to focus on philanthropy and charitable works. Always the champion of children, healthful living, and the arts she went on to found The Minstrel Foundation which funds inner city youth music programs and with her husband, Lyle initiated the Shakespeare Globe Centre of Canada. Through their fundraising efforts, the Blairs assisted noted director Sam Wanamaker in his initiative to build the Globe Theatre which now graces the banks of the Thames in London. With acclaimed actor Christopher Plummer, the Blairs created a scholarship for Canadian actors and directors to learn and work on the stage of the Globe Theatre in London.
Never content to sit idly, Christina joined with Wimbledon and US Open Champion Stan Smith to initiate a fundraising Gala for the Boys & Girls Club of Hilton Head, bringing noted performers to the island to raise several million dollars over the last 20 years.
She enjoys spending time with her three children and her five grandchildren.
She credits her boundless energy to a lifelong devotion to healthful living and fitness. "Without good health, we have nothing. Life is for living to the fullest."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christina Gregg Blair
- SpousesLyle Blair(1981 - July 15, 2021) (his death, 1 child)Alan Joelson(October 21, 1962 - 1980) (divorced, 2 children)
- Docile, Naïve Ingenues
- Now lives in Canada.
- Like many ingenues in England, she was often cast in romances (or possible romances) with older men (in their late thirties while she was in her early twenties).
- Most of her movie roles and television show guest spots were crime potboilers or involved crime in some way, including Rag Doll, The Break, Fate Takes A Hand, Two Wives at One Wedding, Cover Girl Killer, Don't Talk to Strange Men and even television's classic The Saint starring Roger Moore.
- Starred in two films by veteran crime/thriller director Lance Comfort, The Break and Rag Doll.
- Her one film made for American audiences was Roger Corman's The Young Racers, but it was not filmed in America. She was part of a group of European beauties billed in the opening credits as "International Playgirls".
- [Starting her career as a model and then actress] "I won a huge beauty contest when I was 17... Miss ABC Television... I would have won Miss Great Britain as well, but they told me I was too young to win! With this prize was a film test with Robert Day, director of Women Magazine, leading to a theatrical coach, Flossy Freedman, who also helped train Marlon Brando plus Angela Lansbury!" --Interview from CultFilmFreaks.com
- "I remember working with Mel Ferrer and the director asked him how Audrey was. I thought oh he means Audrey Hepburn! He reminded me to always know my lines, as I was not with him in response for a scene at that time: no doubt, nerves!" -- from a CultFilmFreaks.com Interview, 2021
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