Christine Dunford

Christine Dunford is an American actress born in the Bronx, New York. She trained at Juilliard and has worked extensively across stage, television, film, and voice performance.

Dunford spent two years at the Public Theater, where her stage work included both the off-Broadway and Broadway runs of Serious Money, which brought her to Broadway in 1988. At the Public Theater she also took the lead role in Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Gerald Freedman. Additional New York stage credits include Infidelities at Primary Stages and the title role in Tamara. On the West Coast, she starred opposite Ed Begley, Jr. in David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Geffen Playhouse, appeared 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.

Following her relocation to Los Angeles, Dunford accumulated more than 100 television episode appearances. She served as a series regular on Good Sports, Hudson Street with Tony Danza, Something So Right, Bob with Bob Newhart, and The Secret Lives of Men. Her guest credits span Law & Order: LA, Harry's Law, Two and a Half Men, Boston Legal, Seinfeld, Frasier, 'Til Death, and Without a Trace, among others. In 1992 she co-starred in Fox's The Please Watch the Jon Lovitz Special, and in 2019 she recurred on The Purge in the role of Andrea Ziv.

Dunford's film career began with the 1989 release Slaves of New York. The following year she appeared in Reversal of Fortune alongside Jeremy Irons. Subsequent film roles include Ulee's Gold opposite Peter Fonda in 1997, Love & Basketball in 2000, How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, and the short film Dos Corazones.

As a playwright and solo performer, Dunford presented her monologue series Out Loud at HBO's Aspen Comedy Festival and at the Edgemar Theater in Los Angeles. She also performed the solo show Toucan in the Bronx at the Improv in Los Angeles. Her voice work encompasses animated series, television and radio commercials, documentary narration, and museum installations. Her video game credits include titles in the Mass Effect, Lord of the Rings, Civilization, Hitman, and X-COM franchises, as well as Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, EverQuest, and Infamous Second Son.