Ebersole, Christine 1953–

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Ebersole, Christine 1953–

PERSONAL

Born February 21, 1953, in Chicago (some sources cite Winnetka), IL; daughter of Robert (an engineer and executive) and Marian (a psychiatric social worker) Ebersole; married Peter Bergman (an actor), c. 1977 (marriage ended, c. 1982); married Bill Moloney (a real estate agent and former drummer and musical director), 1988; children: (second marriage) Elijah, MaeMae (some sources cite name as May Dawn), Aron; aunt of Janel Moloney (an actress). Education: Attended MacMurray College; trained for the stage at American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Addresses:

Agent—Barry McPherson, Agency for the Performing Arts, 405 South Beverly Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Actress and singer. Performer at various venues, including cabarets and parades. Worked as a waitress and affiliated with benefits, charity functions, and fundraisers.

Awards, Honors:

Daytime Emmy Award nomination, outstanding actress in a supporting role in a daytime drama series, 1984, for One Life to Live; Antoinette Perry Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Drama Desk Award nomination, all best actress in a musical, 2001, for 42nd Street; honorary doctorate, MacMurray College, 2002; Obie Award (with others), outstanding performance, Village Voice, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding featured actress in a play, both 2003, for Talking Heads; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best actress in a play, 2003, for Dinner at Eight; Obie Award, outstanding performance, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award, outstanding actress in a musical, Drama League Award, best performance, and special citation, New York Drama Critics Circle, all 2006, and Antoinette Perry Award, best actress in a musical, 2007, all for Grey Gardens.

CREDITS

Stage Appearances:

Nancy, Angel Street, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1975-76.

Jan, Angel Street, Lyceum Theatre, 1976.

Dana, Green Pond (musical), Westside Theatre (Upstairs), Chelsea Theatre Center, New York City, 1977, also produced at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City.

I Love My Wife (musical), Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, c. 1977-79.

Agnes, On the Twentieth Century (musical), St. James Theatre, New York City, 1978-79.

Margaret, Gossip, PAF Playhouse, New York City, 1979.

Ado Annie Carnes, Oklahoma! (musical), Palace Theatre, New York City, 1979-80, then John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC.

Guenevere, Camelot (musical), Lincoln Center, New York State Theater (some sources cite Palace Theatre), New York City, 1980.

Natasha, The Three Sisters, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage I, New York City, 1982-83.

Skye Bullene, Geniuses, Playwrights Horizons Theatre Company, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City, 1982-83.

Gerta Granville, Harrigan 'n Hart (musical), Longacre Theatre, New York City, 1985.

Beatrice, Much Ado about Nothing, Old Globe, San Diego, CA, 1986.

The Blue Dahlia, Court Theatre, Los Angeles, 1989.

The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, 1989-90.

Miss Trixie Delight, Paper Moon (musical), Paper Mill Playhouse, Millburn, NJ, 1993.

Emily West, "Allegro" (concert), Encores! (also known as Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert), City Center Theatre, New York City, 1994.

Liza Elliott, "Lady in the Dark" (concert), Encores! (also known as Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert), City Center Theatre, 1994.

Dossie Lustig, Getting Away with Murder, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1996.

Babe Williams, The Pajama Game (musical), Reprise! Broadway's Best in Concert, University of California, Los Angeles, Freud Playhouse, Los Angeles, 1998.

"Ziegfeld Follies of 1936" (concert), Encores! (also known as Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert), City Center Theatre, 1998.

Title role, Mame (musical), Paper Mill Playhouse, 1999.

Diana, Current Events, Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, 2000.

Mabel Cantwell, Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" (also known as The Best Man), Virginia Theatre, New York City, 2000.

Guest, Seth Rudetsky's "Broadway Chatterbox," Don't Tell MaMa (cabaret), New York City, 2000.

Fay Morgan and Morgan Le Fay, "A Connecticut Yankee" (concert), Encores! (also known as Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert), City Center Theatre, 2001.

Dorothy Brock, 42nd Street (musical), Ford Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, 2001-2002.

Millicent Jordan, Dinner at Eight, Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City, 2002-2003.

Irene Ruddock, "A Lady of Letters" (monologue), Talking Heads, Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 2003.

Aimee Semple McPherson (title role), Hurricane Aimee (readings of musical), c. 2003.

M'Lynn, Steel Magnolias, Lyceum Theatre, 2005.

Edith Ewing "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, Grey Gardens (musical), Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, 2006, then Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 2006-2007.

Appeared in Los Angeles productions of Into the Woods (musical) and Laughing Wild. Appeared in the musicals Evita, Guys and Dolls, and My Fair Lady. Appeared in other productions, including a concert production of Sunday in the Park with George with the Eos Orchestra.

Television Appearances; Series:

Lily Darnell, Ryan's Hope, ABC, 1980.

Member of the ensemble, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's "Saturday Night," Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live '80, SNL, and SNL 25), NBC, 1981-82.

Maxie McDermott, One Life to Live (also known as Between Heaven and Hell), ABC, 1983-85.

Barbara Goodwin, The Hogan Family (also known as The Hogans, Valerie, and Valerie's Family), NBC, 1986.

Katherine "Kit" Cavanaugh, The Cavanaughs, CBS, 1986-89.

Voice of Mrs. Generic, Bobby's World (animated), Fox, 1990-98.

Title role, Rachel Gunn, R.N., Fox, 1992, 2000.

Belinda Carhardt, Ink, CBS, 1996-97.

Renee, a recurring role, Related, The WB, 2005-2006.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Miss Vashinski, The Dollmaker, ABC, 1984.

Lee Snyder, Acceptable Risks, ABC, 1986.

Cheryl New, Dying to Love You (also known as Lethal White Female), 1993.

Tessie Tura, Gypsy (musical), CBS, 1993.

Ruth Whitney, An Unexpected Family, USA Network, 1996.

Ruth Whitney, An Unexpected Life, USA Network, 1998.

Peggy, Double Platinum (also known as Double platine, Double Platinum—Doppel Platin!, Duo de platino, and Kaksi taehteae), ABC, 1999.

Cecile Andrews, Mary and Rhoda, NBC, 2000.

Kathy Stanford, Pros & Cons, HBO, 2000.

Sandy, An Unexpected Love (also known as This Much I Know), Lifetime, 2003.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Herself, Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center Tonight, 1982.

The Truth about Teachers (also known as Raising Good Kids in Bad Times), syndicated, 1989.

Herself, "Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall," Great Performances, PBS, 1997.

Herself, "The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty," Great Performances, PBS, 1999.

Dorothy Brock, The Lullaby of Broadway: Opening Night on 42nd Street, 2001.

Voice of Pat Dixon, The Electric Piper (animated rock opera), Nickelodeon, 2003.

(In archive footage) Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost & Found, NBC, 2005.

Herself, Broadway under the Stars, CBS, 2006.

Television Appearances; Awards Presentations:

Presenter, The 60th Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 2006.

Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts, CBS, 2006.

The 61st Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 2007.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

"The Enormous Radio," Tales from the Darkside (also known as Beraettelser fraan andra siden, Histoires de l'autre monde, Historias del mas ella, and Keskiyoen kauhutarinoita), syndicated, 1987.

Dolly (also known as The Dolly Show), ABC, 1987.

Maddy, "The Bummer of 42," Murphy Brown, CBS, 1990.

Laura, "All about Harry," Empty Nest, NBC, 1991.

Voice of Lana Vail, "Heat/Snow," Hey Arnold! (animated; also known as Hey, Arnold!), Nickelodeon, 1996.

Margo Langhorne, "How Nina Got Her Groove Back," Just Shoot Me!, NBC, 1998.

Marie Stokes, "Just Looking," Ally McBeal, Fox, 1998.

Norma, "Remember?," The Love Boat: The Next Wave, UPN, 1998.

Herself, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, syndicated, multiple appearances, between 1998 and 2002.

"Three Guys, a Girl, and a Conversation Nook," Madigan Men, ABC, 2000.

Candy Pruitt, "Poker? I Don't Even Like Her," Will & Grace, NBC, 2001.

Herself, Intimate Portrait: Rosie O'Donnell, Lifetime, 2003.

Mrs. Maguire, "Fire in the Sky," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2004.

Myra Hudson, "Tick Tock, Writer's Block," Wild Card (also known as Zoe Busiek: Wild Card), Lifetime, 2004.

Herself, "Production: Grey Gardens," Working in the Theatre, 2006.

Herself, The View, ABC, 2006.

(Uncredited; in archive footage) Edith Ewing "Big Edie" Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, La mandragora, Television Espanola (TVE, Spain), 2007.

Herself, Live with Regis & Kelly, syndicated, 2007.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Thea Jones (title role), Miss Jones, ABC, 1991.

Helen, Breaking News, Bravo, 2002.

Ruth Winterhalter, The Mayor, The WB, 2003.

Television Theme Performer:

Miss Jones (pilot), ABC, 1991.

"Working for a Living," Rachel Gunn, R.N. (series), Fox, 1992, 2000.

Film Appearances:

Linda, Tootsie (also known as Would I Lie to You?), Columbia, 1982.

Janie Pointer, Thief of Hearts, Paramount, 1984.

Katerina Cavalieri/Costanza, Amadeus (also known as Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" and Amadeusz), Orion, 1984, director's cut released as Amadeus: Director's Cut (also known as Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus": Director's Cut, Amadeus: El montaje del director, Amadeus—ohjaajan versio, and Amadeus—version integrale).

Janet Cruise, Mac and Me, Orion, 1988.

Carol, Ghost Dad, Universal, 1990.

Lydia Larsen, Dead Again, Paramount, 1991.

Arlene Aldrich, Folks!, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992.

Cynthia Lewis, The Lounge People (also known as L-Dopa), 1992.

Regina Rich, Richie Rich, Warner Bros., 1994.

Rose Zsigmond, My Girl 2, Columbia, 1994.

Governor Tracy, Black Sheep, Paramount, 1996.

Mom Dunlap, Pie in the Sky (also known as Mr. Traffic), Fine Line Features, 1996.

Beebee Moss, 'Til There Was You (also known as Ate tu apareceres …, Ha-Dereh el Ha-Osher, Hasta que te encontre, Idoeszamitasom eloett, L'amour de ma vie, Si on s'aimait, Solo se ilm destino, and Zwei Singles in L.A.), Paramount, 1997.

Bridget Rossiter, True Crime (also known as True Crimes, Crimenes verdaderos, Ein Wahres Verbrechen, Ejecucion inminente, Fino a prova contraria, Juge coupable, Oegonblicket foere tystnaden, Pahin rikos, and Um crime real), Warner Bros., 1999.

Mrs. Loralie Brown, My Favorite Martian (also known as My Favourite Martian), Buena Vista, 1999.

Miriam Prigusivac, Love Comes to the Executioner, Velocity Home Entertainment, 2006.

Herself, Grey Gardens: From East Hampton to Broadway (documentary), East of Doheny, 2007.

Herself, Dying for Change (documentary), Scott Goldberg Films, c. 2007.

Herself, Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon (documentary), Automat Pictures, 2008.