Christine Dunford

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Christine Dunford
Born
Christine Dunford

OccupationActress
Years active1979–present
Known forCoach Davis in Love & Basketball

Christine Dunford is an American actress from the Bronx. [1]

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Early life and education

Christine Dunford was born in the Bronx. [1] She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1979, the year that she played a featured role in the school's production of Dark of the Moon . She was also voted class president during her senior year.

She received theater training at the Juilliard School and began her career in the New York theater, cast in Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival production of Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

Career

Dunford spent the next two years working at the Public Theater in the American premiere of the off-Broadway and Broadway runs of Serious Money and in the lead role of Love's Labours Lost , directed by Gerald Freedman.

Other New York stage appearances include Infidelities at Primary Stages and the title role in Tamara . On the west coast, Dunford starred with Ed Begley, Jr. in David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Geffen Playhouse. She appeared and in the Bottom's Dream Theater Company productions of Losing Venice and 7 Blow Jobs, and was directed by fellow Juilliard alumnus Keith David in The Shadow Box at the Edgemar Theater.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Dunford has appeared in over 100 television episodes, both as a series regular ( Good Sports , Hudson Street with Tony Danza, Something So Right , Bob , with Bob Newhart, and The Secret Lives of Men ) and as a guest star ( Law & Order: LA , Harry's Law , Two and a Half Men , Boston Legal , Seinfeld , Frasier , 'Til Death , Without a Trace and others). She also co-starred in Fox's The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special in 1992. In 2019, Dunford recurred on The Purge as the evil Andrea Ziv. She also appeared on the mentalist (season 6 episode 3).

On film, Dunford made her debut in the 1989's Slaves of New York . The following year, she appeared in Reversal of Fortune alongside Oscar winner Jeremy Irons. Her other film roles include 1997's Ulee's Gold opposite Peter Fonda, 2000's Love & Basketball , How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, and the award-winning short Dos Corazones.

Dunford is also a playwright, and was invited to perform her series of monologues, Out Loud, at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival as well as at the Edgemar Theater in Los Angeles. She performed another solo show, Toucan in the Bronx, at the Improv in Los Angeles.

In addition to her work on stage and screen, Dunford is a voice artist on several animated series as well as television and radio commercials. She provides narration for documentary films and museum installments, and does voice work for video games in the Mass Effect , Lord of the Rings , Civilization , Hitman , and X-COM series, as well as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War , EverQuest , and Infamous Second Son .

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1989 Slaves of New York B
1990 Reversal of Fortune Ellen
1997 Ulee's Gold Helen Jackson
2000 Love & Basketball Coach Davis
2001 Soul Survivors ER Nurse
2006How to Go Out on a Date in QueensAnn Marie
2011The American DreamCheryl
2012 Hello Herman Senator Cox / Computer Voice
2016The Bandit HoundDeb
2019 Bad Impulse Radio Announcer

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1989 Loving Betty Sossnen2 episodes
1990 Law & Order ReporterEpisode: "By Hooker, by Crook"
1990 Monsters Laura DanielEpisode: "Sin-Sop"
1991 Good Sports Missy Van Johnson6 episodes
1991Guilty Until Proven InnocentKathy PanzerTelevision film
1991...And Then She Was GoneAmanda
1991 Pros and Cons Mary Elizabeth DavisEpisode: "May the Best Man Win"
1991, 1994 Seinfeld Saleswoman / LeslieEpisodes: "The Pie", "The Baby Shower"
1992 Civil Wars Sharon BeckwithEpisode: "Chute First, Ask Questions Later"
1992 Rachel Gunn, R.N. Evelyn BigelowEpisode: "A Kept Woman"
1992–1993 Bob Shayla7 episodes
1993 The John Larroquette Show Con WomanEpisode: "Pilot"
1994Betrayal of TrustMs. KingTelevision film
1994 Grace Under Fire Trish BaldwinEpisode: "Grace and Beauty"
1994 Hotel Malibu Carol RadleyEpisode: "Advance Reservations"
1994 Dave's World SimoneEpisode: "One Mump or Two?"
1995 Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Danka / SwikEpisode: "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?"
1995 Cybill ClaireEpisode: "The Curse of Zoey"
1995–1996 Hudson Street Off. Kirby McIntire22 episodes
1996 Millennium A.D.A. Rhonda PreshutskiEpisode: "The Well-Worn Lock"
1996–1998 Something So Right Stephanie Farrell20 episodes
1997 Early Edition ElizabethEpisode: "Psychic"
1998 Ally McBeal Eva CurryEpisode: "The Playing Field"
1998 Since You've Been Gone Debbie JohnsonTelevision film
1999 Chicago Hope Marcia LoeyEpisode: "Curing Cancer"
1999 Judging Amy Linda OakesEpisode: "Victim Soul"
1999 Jack & Jill Workshop LeaderEpisode: "Fear and Loathing in Gotham"
2000 Bette NadineEpisode: "Diva, Interrupted"
2000, 2001 Family Law Deborah Atchinson2 episodes
2003 The Wild Thornberrys Ms. CollinsEpisode: "Look Who's Squawking"
2003 Two and a Half Men GloriaEpisode: "The Last Thing You Want Is to Wind Up with a Hump"
2003 Frasier NancyEpisode: "Guns 'N Neuroses"
2004 Without a Trace Lily GarrettEpisode: "The Season"
2005 What I Like About You LeahEpisode: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying to Be a Lesbian"
2005 Crossing Jordan NicoleEpisode: "Sanctuary"
2005Wiener ParkPam ParkTelevision film
2006 Four Kings DanaEpisode: "Follow the Money"
2006, 2007 Boston Legal Attorney Shelley Ford2 episodes
2007 'Til Death VickiEpisode: "The Anniversary Party"
2008, 2018 The Young and the Restless Warden Rogers / Jean Whitman2 episodes
2009 Raising the Bar Ilene ThomasenEpisode: "Hair Apparent"
2011 Harry's Law Judge Virginia Eden2 episodes
2011 Law & Order: LA Attorney FinleyEpisode: "Reseda"
2011 Glenn Martin, DDS Nem-NemEpisode: "Windfall"
2012 Rizzoli & Isles Claire Koneff DeluthEpisode: "No More Drama in My Life"
2013 Arrested Development Lynda the ProducerEpisode: "Señoritis"
2013 The Mentalist Mrs. BonnerEpisode: "Wedding in Red"
2014 Bones Harriet KentEpisode: "The Nail in the Coffin"
2015 Longmire Naomi BradleyEpisode: "The Calling Back"
2017Back to LoveJillTelevision film
2017 The Gifted DOJ OfficialEpisode: "eXtreme measures"
2019 9-1-1 SadieEpisode: "New Beginnings"
2019 The Purge Andrea Ziv4 episodes
2019–2020 Star Wars Resistance Lt. Galek / Stormtrooper Guard5 episodes
2021 NCIS Jeri FleckmanEpisode: "Sangre"
2021 Cowboy Bebop Whitney Matsumoto2 episodes
2025 General Hospital Mabel1 episode
TBAArrivals & DeparturesJaelynnEpisode: "Exotic Creatures"

References

  1. 1 2 "Christine Dunford (visual voices guide)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2021-05-31.