Christine Heldens Played by Rebecca Creskoff
Christine is a member of the upper-crust of White Pine Bay. An intelligent, educated, ex-New Yorker with a sophisticated sensibility, she takes a liking to Norma Bates and takes her under her wing, attempting to guide her into proper society, as well as the arms of her recently divorced brother.
Rebecca Creskoff graduated with a BA in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to get her MFA from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University.
Upon graduating she was cast in the Off-Broadway, Steve Martin hit, "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" at the Promenade Theater in New York City. Other theater credits include the Broadway play Losing Louie at Manhattan Theater Club, Arms and The Man, Midsummer Night's Dream, Enter Laughing, and The Three Sisters, The All-American at Lincoln Center as well as numerous plays at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival and Baltimore Center Stage.
On television, Rebecca most recently starred in the HBO series Hung for three seasons as the pimp Lenore. Other work includes guest appearances and recurring roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Justified, Mad Men, How I Met Your Mother, Parenthood, Party Down, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, The West Wing, New Adventures of Old Christine, NCIS, among others.
Film credits include I Melt With You, Friends and Family, Finding North, Knucklehead and The Suspect to be released this fall.
She currently lives in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania with her new baby, husband, four step-children, and three dogs.