Christen Mestre
- Actor
- Originating in the heart of the Midwest, Christen Mestre, daughter of community theatre actors Jim and Emily Williams. Her early years unfolded between down-to-earth Iowa and teeth-chattering Minnesota, where the frigid winds seemed to seep into her very bones. Yet it was in these lands that she gained peculiar skills: painting eerie portraits, and sewing fantastical items of clothing as if her hands held secrets only the fabric could hear. It is here where she had her acting debut in a fire safety video for AT&T employees.
- A 20-year stint in Chicago followed a city that welcomed her with baseball curses and blood-red pizza pies. It was there, under the dim lights of Wrigley Field, that she fell victim to the strange, cult-like fever of the Chicago Cubs. Her life grew stranger still as she learned to fly single-engine planes, soaring alone above the darkened city. It was at university here that her acting career took a dark turn when the director assigned a heart-wrenching role which had her immediately faint and lay still on stage for the remaining 2 acts of the play.
- Then, her path twisted westward, to the Pacific Northwest's mist-laden forests and shadowed hills. It was there, amid the looming evergreens near Portland, Oregon, that her acting career found its haunting roots, thanks to the enigmatic writer-director-producer Jason Hawkins. Christen slipped into the world of eerie indie films, her face flickering on screen as she portrayed characters caught in nightmares. Rumor has it that she's since retreated from the spotlight, trading scripts for quiet, moonlit nights... or perhaps waiting. For once in the shadows, one can never fully leave, only linger until the next darkened role calls her back.
