Christine Bottomley was born in Rochdale, Lancashire on April 27th 1979
and grew up in a flat over the family's chemist shop. Here she began
people watching and impersonating the regular customers and realised
that she wanted a life of 'professional pretending'. She went to
several local youth drama groups before embarking on a course at the
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, from where she graduated in
2001. Shortly afterwards she was making her television debut in the
soap 'Eastenders' and has subsequently cropped up in several popular
television dramas, including 'Heartbeat' and 'The Innocence Project'
though she probably gave her best performance as an abused wife,
turning the tables on her bullying husband in the BBC mini-series 'The
Street'.
The Healer(2025)as Helen
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators(2018)as Rina Shrewsbury
Waterloo Road(2006)as Sam Drake
Misper(2025)as Pam Shade
What I Am(2024)as Caroline
30 Tips to Cut Your Christmas Spend(2022)as Self - Narrator
Me and My Sugar Daddy(2020)as Self - Narrator
Weekend(2014)as Self - Guest
