Christine Page

When she was only 12, Christine's parents, horrified by Fidel Castro's communist takeover, secretly sent her to the United States alone via the clandestine kids' rescue operation known as Pedro Pan (Peter Pan). To cope with the pain of exile, she turned to comedy and -inspired by legendary performers like Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Jack Benny, Carol Burnett and Peter Sellers- began a successful career as a ground-breaking bilingual actress, writer and producer. She quickly became the top Hispanic commercial pitch-woman, starring in hundreds of national, English and Spanish-language television and radio spots. She was the first Hispanic woman in South Florida to host a television talk show, a weekly English-language program called Getting Together. She was also the first Hispanic hired by Players Theatre at Miami¹s Coconut Grove Playhouse...working first (as Company Manager) with actors like a then-unknown Denzel Washington - and later as an actress, co-starring with (and