25 Facts About Cristina Raines

Cristina Raines is an American former actress and model who appeared in numerous films throughout the 1970s, mainly horror films and period pieces.

Cristina Raines went on to have a prolific career as a television actress throughout the 1980s.

Cristina Raines had a minor part in the Charles Bronson thriller The Stone Killer, followed by a lead in the television film Sunshine, in which she played a young mother with terminal cancer.

In 1975, Cristina Raines was cast in a supporting role in Robert Altman's ensemble comedy Nashville, portraying a folk singer, followed by a lead in the supernatural horror film The Sentinel, in which she starred as a model tormented by supernatural goings-on in her new apartment building.

Cristina Raines co-starred in Ridley Scott's directorial debut, The Duellists, a period piece based on the Napoleonic Wars.

Cristina Raines had her first major television role in the twelve-part miniseries Centennial, playing the daughter of a fur trapper in 1800s Colorado.

Cristina Raines continued to act throughout the 1980s, with such film credits as the anthology horror film Nightmares.

Cristina Raines spent the majority of the decade acting in television, notably with a lead role on the NBC series Flamingo Road.

Cristina Raines was born February 28,1952, in Manila, Philippines, to American parents.

Cristina Raines was one of five daughters whose paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Colombia.

Cristina Raines' sister Victoria Herazo was a member of the US Olympic team for racewalking.

Cristina Raines graduated from high school in Boston, Massachusetts, and subsequently attended the Chandler School for Women, a Boston business college, where she trained to work as a secretary.

Around 1970, Cristina Raines relocated to New York City, where she signed a modeling contract with Ford Models.

The company's executive, Eileen Ford, felt that Cristina Raines had the potential to be an actress, and urged her to attend local auditions.

Cristina Raines was reluctant but eventually acquiesced to Ford's pressure, auditioning for a lead role in the period piece horror film Hex, opposite Keith Carradine and Gary Busey.

Cristina Raines later commented that in her early career, agents often tried to cast her in Spanish-speaking roles due to her Hispanic features and Spanish surname, though Cristina Raines was not fluent in Spanish.

Cristina Raines's next film appearance was a minor role portraying the daughter of Charles Bronson's character in the thriller The Stone Killer, directed by Michael Winner, before she was cast in Joseph Sargent's biographical television film Sunshine, in which she portrayed a 20-year-old mother who receives a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Cristina Raines subsequently had a supporting part as a folk singer in Robert Altman's ensemble comedy Nashville.

Around this time, Cristina Raines signed a contract with Universal Pictures, and appeared in several films for the studio, though she later admitted that the contract "became very detrimental" to her career, and prevented her from doing numerous films.

Cristina Raines reunited with director Michael Winner to appear in his supernatural horror film The Sentinel, followed by a lead role in Ridley Scott's directorial debut The Duellists, in which she co-starred with Carradine, and which focused on soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars.

Cristina Raines subsequently co-starred as a central character in the 1978 television miniseries Centennial.

Cristina Raines' role was that of Lucinda McKeag Zendt, an Arapaho and French-Canadian woman.

Cristina Raines later appeared as a woman pursued by a killer in the anthology film Nightmares for Universal, originally slated to be a television series.

Cristina Raines has appeared in television, with guest-starring roles on Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, and Riptide.

Cristina Raines formally retired from acting in 1991, and became a registered nurse, specializing in patients undergoing kidney dialysis.