Christina O'Neill is a Helpmann award winning actor whose versatile talents have seen her excel from stage to screen to song. Since graduating from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in 2005 she has established herself as one of Australia’s most versatile and distinctive performers.

Christina is currently in appearing in Jez Butterworth’s The River at Australia’s leading ensemble theatre company, Red Stitch Actors Theatre. She has been an ensemble member since 2013 and her Red Stitch Theatre credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, Straight, Belleville and Middletown.

Christina is most well known for her break out role as Christmas Eve in the acclaimed Australia/NZ tour of Avenue Q (Arts Asia Pacific) for which she won a Helpmann Award (Best Supporting Actress in a Musical) in 2010.

More recently, she has appeared in a variety of theatrical roles such as Julie LaVerne in Showboat (The Production Company), the Baker’s Wife in Into The Woods (Victorian Opera) and Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (Victorian Opera).

Other theatre credits include Gaybies (Midsumma Festival), April in Savage in Limbo (Workhorse Theatre Company), Maddy in Prodigal (45 Downstairs), Lady of the Lake standby in Monty Python’s Spamalot (Louise Withers & Associates), Tell Me on A Sunday (Kookaburra) and as a Diva in Priscila, Queen of the Desert the Musical.

She also features on the original Australian cast recording of Priscilla Queen of the Desert and on the albums, Showqueen Sessions and Together Apart (which are all available for purchase on iTunes).

Christina has also performed at various cabaret nights and concerts such as Trevor Ashley’s Showqueen, Light the Night, the A.P.E.C Gala Concert at the Opera House, Helpmann Awards, Sydney Cabaret Showcase (El Rocco Jazz Room) and Up Close and Musical for Kookaburra.

Christina’s screen credits include Winners & Losers (Seven Network), The Divorce (ABC), City Homicide (Seven Network), feature film The Great Raid (Miramax) and numerous live television appearances including The Morning Show and Mornings with Kerrie-Anne.

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