CHRISTOPHER TEMPLETON

CHRISTOPHER TEMPLETON was born and raised on the "Gold Coast" of Chicago where she went to New Tier High School - home of Ann-Margaret, Charlton Heston, Rock Hudson and many other notable performers. She arrived in Hollywood with $90 in her pocket in the early 1980's after spending eight years "growing up" and learning her craft in Phoenix, Arizona.

Within two years she was a contract player on the number one soap opera in the country, "The Young and the Restless". For the next eleven years she not only stayed on "Y&R", but also performed in well over a dozen prime time television shows as a "Guest Star" performer. She then went on to Guest Star in two Movies of the Week, one with Peter Falk (Columbo) and one co-starring with George Wendt with John Candy in his directorial debut (Hostage for a Day). Most recently Chris has starred in two independent films with 1998/1999 releases, both hitting the film festival circuit at this time. One high action movie about a CIA agent that is injured in the line of duty and refuses to retire(which is earmarked for series potential). The other a "talking heads" film about a woman's fight (with the help of a mysterious man who appears in her house) to keep living among people rather than within herself.

Over the next few months, Chris is scheduled to star in another film about a nurse in Viet Nam who gets injured in the line of duty and decided to stay(also earmarked for series potential). She is also in the midst of writing two screen plays, one of which she will star in and is scheduled to begin shooting in the fall of 1999.

In the midst of all this, Chris has established herself as an activist for disability rights and has been awarded for her efforts by not only knowing that she has effected millions of viewers world wide by giving them positive images of people with disabilities, but has also been awarded by organizations such as The Governor of California's Committee on Employment and Disability (Outstanding Contribution and Exceptional Merit Awards), The Dole Foundation, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles Project with Industry and National Legislation Council for the Handicapped. She has been the National Spokesperson for the Rotary International Polio Plus Program, Special Consultant on Public Relations to the President's Committee on Employment of Persons with Disabilities as well as a board member and an Advisory Board member and vice-president of the Media Access Office, Los Angeles.