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Mary Christina Brown is an American actress. Her heritage is of Korean, Japanese, Dutch, English, and Native American Indian. Born on a military base in Fort Bragg in North Carolina and having lived in small towns in the mid-west, Queens of New York, Hawaii, and raised in San Francisco. It was in San Francisco where she was compelled to embrace different cultures and the performing arts, including dance, music, theater, art, and martial arts. She booked her first commercial for Fox television at age seven and performed on stage throughout the city.
As a member of the Young People's Musical Theater Company, she was trained in drama, singing, and dance. She was also classically trained in violin, cello, and voice. Mary Christina also studied acting at the young conservatory of A.C.T. and with Philip Bennett at the Bennett Theater Lab in San Francisco. She also attended School of the Arts High School focusing on drama and dance. She danced professionally with Ronnie Reddick with City Slam and Spirit of Polynesia Dance Company. She's modeled for print advertising campaigns and competed in pageants such as Miss Hawaiian Tropic being 1st runners up in the San Francisco Bay Area just to name a few.
After a short stint in Silicon Valley, Mary Christina moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
As an actress, she played Maricar Sanchez in the Urban Comedy "A Night in Compton", which won a 2004 audience choice award at the Hollywood Black Film Festival and aired on the Black Stars channel. She also starred opposite Peter Greene (The Mask, Pulp Fiction, The Black Donnelly's) in "King of Hollywood" also featuring Joe Hursley (Accepted), and Frederico Castelluccio (Sopranos). She was next a candy raver in "Rolling" about the Ecstasy culture in LA, which won audience choice and best feature award in the 2007 San Francisco Independent Film Festival and chosen as an official selection at the 2007 Seattle True Independent Film Festival and Danceswithfilms in Los Angeles. She played Lith in the horror film "Night of the Dead: Leben Tod", which won Best Makeup Special FX at the 2006 Shriekfest and Jury Award at the 2006 Chicago horror film festival and also stars as Sybil in the Sci-Fi Horror film, "Doomed", which is airing on Showtime Network. Other film credits include Bollywood film, "That Game of Chess", "Shadow Man", and "Loaded" starring Jesse Metcalfe. She plays the sniper in "Another Lonely Road" starring Will Yun Lee, Russell Wong, and Ron Yuan and plays Jamie Lee in the Sci-Fi Action film "Repeat Offenders" and Anastasia alongside British actor Julian Sands in "Blood and Bone" coming out in 2008. You will also see her starring as Japoniko in "Night of the Templar" with David Carradine, Udo Kier, Billy Drago, Norman Reedus, and Paul Sampson.
As a singer and dancer, Mary Christina has performed with Shar Jackson in the all girl group, Mpulz. She has danced on shows such as the BET Club Comic View, Spike Television's Mountain Dew Network show, Dance 360, Your Face or Mine?, Boystown, featured dancer/choreographer on Univision's Caliente and Estudio 2. She has appeared in two of Carlos Santana's music videos featuring Musiq Soulchild and Alex and the Calling, featured dancer for UK's rising British artist Jem in "Wish I", and for Universal Music Group/Machete Records Latin Reggaeton Concert. She can also be seen dancing in feature films such as "A Talent for Trouble" and as Valentina, Desmonds back-up dancer in the first latin/hip hop reggaeton movie "Spin" starring Shalim Ortiz.
She has also shown talent working behind the camera. She co-produced a project "Another Lonely Road" starring Will Yun Lee, Ron Yuan, and Russell Wong. As a producer she has also worked with such talents Joe Hursley (Accepted) also known for his band "The Ringers", Nadia Bjorlin (Redline, Days of Our Lives) and the YMI top fashion model Lauren James. She worked in production as an associate producer on the feature film "Shut Up and Shoot!" directed by Silvio Pollio starring Joe Cortese, Tom Sizemore, Gary Busey, Daniel Baldwin, John Savage, James Russo, Willie Gault, and Debra Wilson. She worked with award winning director Jon Shear (Urbania) producing comedy videos featuring comedian/writer Sam Brown (The whitest kids you know) and Christa Flanagan (Mad TV, the Epic movie) and produces and art directs on several photo shoots with models, celebrities, and editorials for magazines.
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