Christine Garrott

Christine Garrott has worked on several features, TV shows, independents, industrials, a commercial, and a music video. She was a stand-in for Sarah Jessica Parker in the pilot for Equal Justice, a stand-in for Sherilyn Fenn in The Assassination File, and a Stand-in For Janeane Garofalo and for Salma Hayek in Dogma. She has also worked on King Pin, Bob Roberts, Sudden Death, Iron Maze, Two Evil Eyes, Daddy Cool, The Young and The Restless, Bump in the Night, The Bride in Black, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, among other productions.From the time she was a child, she was a creative powerhouse. She created, acted in, directed, cast, came up with sets, costumes, and makeup for skits and plays. She also put on dances and puppet shows. She put on a puppet show and recited Shakespeare from memory for her second grade class. She also put on a skit for a fundraiser for The Free Clinic in Shadyside, Pittsburgh, PA. In addition to the usual playing with dolls, playing dress up, and playing house, she also created models of the interiors of houses from anything she could find, sculpted soap into sculptures, made miniature design displays, designed and built buildings with Dominoes, LEGOS, Lincoln Logs, and Pick-Up Sticks; created epic movies with marbles; and smaller production movies with dolls, matchbox cars, toy soldiers and horses, and chess pieces (basically, everything became alive and part of a movie plot of her own creation); wrote & illustrated her own books, and created all different types of artwork. She loved acting, dancing in her tutu, creating and singing little songs and jingles, playing pretend, listening to music, and playing piano. At Shannock Valley Elementary School, she won a school-wide rhythm/memory contest, and was carried on the crowd. (The second time she was carried on the crowd was way in the future, after showing her final film project at Pittsburgh Filmmakers for her Filmmaking II class, who said it was more like a Filmmaking IV final project.) In the 3rd grade, after testing well above average on an IQ test, she was offered to be in the gifted program, but she declined (something she regretted later when she had friends who were in it).In high school she was in the National Honor Society, on the Honor Roll throughout, received the Presidential Academic Fitness Award, was chosen for and attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Conference, and graduated 3rd in her class. Standardized testing showed her to test higher than 98-99% of the nation in most every subject. Math was the exception. She especially enjoyed English, music, art, and biology classes. She was the master of ceremonies for a school-wide assembly for Foreign Language Week, during which she spoke basic phrases in several different languages, and introduced the international students. She was an INFJ personality type. She felt that if she could ever become a successful, well-known actress in the future, she could use her position to influence the world about causes she is passionate about; such as better support and protection for the homeless, disabled, elderly, children, animals, sick, and the poor.When she got her B.A. degree in Communication Arts, with a minor in English/Writing from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Cum Laude with Departmental Honors, was an Alden Scholar, and on the National Dean's list every term. She chose Communication Arts, because it encompassed many of her greatest subjects of interest (theater, art, photography, videography, writing, percussion [and won many percussion contests], piano [her piano professor told her she "would be famous by Friday" if she continued her lessons, but she did not, as she had too many humanities credits as it was], voice, etc.). She also enjoyed writing comedy skits for a college video magazine (and was told she "should write for Saturday Night Live" by some of her peers). She was copy editor and a photographer for The Campus newspaper. She was also a newscaster for the college radio station, WARC; and a member of the college chorus. She became engaged to her college boyfriend, the future filmmaker, Jeffery Garton. After the engagement fell through, she never married.After college, in addition to working on films (acting, stand-in, production), she was also a local performance artist, performing numerous different performance pieces she created (sometimes collaborating with other artists, musicians, & performers--including her performance art duo, Two Blue Moons, as mentioned in Intrigue Magazine). Her performance art involved any combination of the following: movement, installations, the spoken word, the visual word, original prerecorded or live sound/music, video and visual art. Her photographs, paintings and ceramic sculptures were also exhibited in various local galleries and art shows. She was a member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She also studied filmmaking at Pittsburgh Filmmakers, won a Shakespearian cold reading acting contest during a festival, modeled for a runway hair show on the Gateway Clipper, modeled for a stained glass window of Mother Mary (and was asked to model for a ceramic stature of her, as well--by another artist), won a business idea contest against a millionaire businessman (she was always coming up with creative business ideas that she did not know what to do with), and took classes in jewelry making, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, yoga, Chinese painting and calligraphy, massage therapy, reiki, therapeutic touch, myofascial trigger point therapy, Bach flower remedies, homeopathy, Waldorf/Rudolph Steiner educating, got a certificate to be a home health aide, and and graduated from the Pittsburgh Peace Institute. Additionally, she studied and experienced many different types of religions/spirituality, which have also been of great interest to her since she was a little girl (and many of her performance pieces had spiritual themes). Despite peer pressure, she has never been into smoking, drinking, drugs, or tattoos. However, she does not try to force her views on others. To each their own. She has also studied a great deal about nutrition, herbs, and supplements. She also loves interior design; especially creating, beautiful, peaceful, spiritual, whimsical, exotic, traditional, and historical interior designs. Even though she loved acting, she was not into in acting in real life--only on a stage, in a gallery, or a film set. In real life, she prefers peace and lighthearted playfulness to drama.She had Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomylitis since she was a teenager, after getting Epstein Barr. It started out with daily fevers, and the symptoms became progressively worse over time. So, all the work she did was by sheer willpower alone, and was very difficult to sustain (she worked with fevers, beyond exhausted, with muscle pain from head to toe, with her middle bandaged from vomiting for 8 hours straight [something that happened to her often], with infections, with burning pain and skin soreness in her head, neck, and torso regions; with no sleep, with no place to sit down, etc.). She never told anyone at work that she was sick. She just endured everything, and pretend she was healthy (what she almost always does in life). She never did get any proper healthcare. She is completely on her own her in life. Due to the difficulties in enduring working enough to pay for her daily living expenses, and concerned that her coworkers were starting to figure out that she was not perfectly physically healthy, through extreme difficulty, she went on disability. Trying to find safe living conditions has been her biggest difficulty her entire adult life (and still is). As a result of having to live in unsafe places, she also developed Environmental Illness. Currently, she resides in coastal Southern California, and is looking for a safe place to live (without rats, mold, or heavy chemical usage inside). Retiring was not what she wanted to do, but it seemed the most logical course of action, given that she has no alternative means of support. Finding a safe place to live is her current goal in life. Show less «