Mary Christina Brown(I)

Mary Christina Brown is an American actress whose diverse background in the performing arts has shaped her into a genuine, experienced, and versatile talent. Born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, her journey began with a rich tapestry of influences, as her father served in the United States Army stationed in South Korea, where he met her mother. With both parents being visual artists and musicians, Mary Christina was immersed in creativity from an early age. Her mother's guitar melodies and lyrical singing ignited her passion for dance and music, and classic Hollywood musicals inspired her. The rich blend of her father's Scottish, English, Danish, Welsh, Irish, and Dutch heritage, paired with her mother's South Korean and Japanese roots-and her stepmother's Filipino, Chinese, and Spanish influences-contributes to Mary Christina's captivating screen presence, showcasing a celebration of cultural richness.

Gracefully educated with foundational values of the ethnic spectrum, Mary Christina embodies the spirit of a cultural chameleon, effortlessly adapting to diverse environments and cultures. With transient beginnings living in the South, Midwest, and New York, her family eventually settled in San Francisco, where her artistry continued to flourish.

Raised in a talented warrior home, passion for the arts was inevitable from a young age, foreseeing a journey that would enact her vocation in visual arts, acting, voice, music, dance, martial arts, and performing on stage throughout San Francisco, as well as booking commercials and modeling for print ad campaigns. Identity discovery in her elementary school to early teen years revealed an inherent competitive drive, advancing her interest in various martial arts styles and performing arts. She didn't stop there either, eventually adding theater, classical vocal and instrumental training in violin and cello, and professional dance in different styles such as tap, jazz, modern, modern jazz, ballet, hip-hop, Afro-Haitian, and traditional Hawaiian and Tahitian.

Mary Christina's teen years saw further evolution performing on stages around San Francisco and attended a raft of performing art schools (Young People's Musical Theater Company, A.C.T. Conservatory, School of the Arts High School, and Bennett Theatre Lab, to name a few). Her creative path became clearer to a full commitment; visions of performing on Broadway were within a reachable distance. Ultimately, life had an alternative plan. The blessing of motherhood arrived sooner with the arrival of her beautiful daughter, Isabella, and with it, a surge forward in dynamic professional action beyond previous-set goals.

Mary Christina revisited her experience and education in Silicon Valley's growing Information Technology field as a Network technician and Internet Systems Engineer. Albeit prosperous and professionally stable, her passion rested with performing, and through the strength and support of her family, she relocated to Los Angeles to explore entertainment opportunities. Knowing the struggle of family, auditions, sustainable employment, and maintaining marketable proficiency in her performance and martial arts training, she persisted.

Seasoned from balancing between motherhood and corporate, she reclaimed her performance stride, cutting her teeth on BOTH sides of the camera. Her career progression has since landed her next to the likes of The Walking Dead headliner Norman Reedus, martial arts action star Michael Jai White, Bokeem Woodbine, John David Washington, Luke Goss, Russell Crowe, Steven Bauer, music and movie multi-hyphenate R.Z.A., Corin Nemic, Udo Kier, Julian Sands, Peter Greene, Taryn Manning, Jake Weber, the late film and television legend David Carradine, and the Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss.

Her film and T.V. roles invoke a wide range of depth and scope in her acting caliber with select credits such as that of undercover agent Monica in the American crime thriller "AWOL 72" (2015), Barrington's Henchwoman Swan in HBO's pulse-pounding action film "Vigilante Diaries" (2016), Fasma, a Special Forces soldier in the SyFy television feature thriller "MindBlown" (2016), Kana, a Yakuza hitwoman whose centuries-old Samurai lineage has since destined her with a longstanding duty to protect the world from the evil power of the sought after Japanese doomsday stone in SyFy / Lionsgate "Doomsday Device" (2017) (a.k.a. Pandora's Box).

Mary Christina plays Kioko, a free-spirited burner from Joshua Tree, in the American crime thriller "Paydirt" (2020), which stars Val Kilmer and Luke Goss. She plays the role of Jan in "Karen" (2021), an Asian American woman living in the fictional affluent suburban Atlanta community of Harvey Hill. She is part of the HOA - a nosy neighbor living next door to a closeted racist woman named Karen, played by Taryn Manning; it also stars Cory Hardrict and Jasmine Burke. Mary Christina also plays the role of Kim, a deputy sheriff who sets out to find the missing girls who vanished in her small town in the desert. While uncovering information and in pursuit, she crosses paths with an ex-Black Ops soldier, played by Paul Sloan, desperate to find his missing daughter and uncover what happened the night she disappeared. Kim discovers that his daughter vanished just like the other lost girls; she helps him uncover the truth in the American action thriller film "Every Last One of Them" (2021), which also stars Jake Weber, Taryn Manning, Mike Hatton, Michael Madsen, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Collectively, along with characters such as that of a henchwoman, raver, courtesan, martial arts master, troubled mother, and burlesque dancer, that very depth and scope she has earned, in part, hails from playing roles generally meant for men (i.e., special-ops soldier, enigmatic minimalist vengeful swordswoman, international undercover special agent, lieutenant).

Mary Christina worked internationally on Star World Asia's longest-running reality competition television show, The Apartment, on Netflix. On social media, she maintains a fan following via Instagram at @themarychristinabrown with posts that gravitate to audiences, aiming not only to interact but to motivate and inspire.

More than the average face, set of legs, and perfunctory memes popular in today's societal currents, Mary Christina is as real as real gets and the quintessential sum of her life story. She's far from intangible and materialistic in her day-to-day life, with a proven acumen for health and concerns for today's important issues, valuing insight in all things healthy for one's own growth on a spiritual and humanistic level.

She's a mother, an animal lover, a daughter, a friend and confidant to a deserving few, and a progressive, motivational figure to many. Her craft is further amplified by all aforementioned, having attained an array of values and qualities that deem her vital to any director or showrunner in search of a diverse, professional, mature, and organic performer - all of which she provenly and continually demonstrates time and again.

Mary Christina Brown, a vibrant resident of Los Angeles, California, embodies a life of passion and creativity. She harmonizes her life with the arts, immersing herself in voice, guitar, and piano while honing her skills in martial arts. As she pursues a degree in Communicative Disorders, focusing on Speech-Language Pathology, she balances her studies with joyful moments with her beloved dog, Peanut, family, and loved ones. As a skilled mixologist, she enjoys crafting unique drinks and embraces the beauty of nature through hiking and running, and her fascination with arthropods-especially jumping spiders-reflects her curiosity for the wonders of life.