Biografia
Christine Dixon - is a member of African American Women in Cinema, The New York Women in Film and TV and Sag-Aftra. Ms. Dixon, was cast as Harriet Tubman in the short film Era, which is written by army veteran Delaina Waldron. Era, is on the Film Festival circuit. Era, was recently screened in July 2018, at Harlem Week's first annual Film Festival. Ms. Dixon, was recently interviewed on WBAI 99.5 FM "How To Make it in The City." Ms. Dixon was offered a role in a film which will be shooting on the west coast this summer with a Hollywood veteran. In Film and TV she has worked on The Dark Tower, Orange is The New Black, Girl's, Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Jessica Jones, Younger, Line of Sight, Shades of Blue, The Path, The Affair, School of Rock, Spinning Into Butter, Inside Man and the independent film, Descent starring Rosario Dawson, whom Ms. Dixon worked with on Luke Cage. Ms. Dawson asked Ms. Dixon to perform her award winning show for the youth Dawson mentors on the Lower East Side of New York City. Ms. Dixon portrayed a series regular as a police officer on season one of the new CBS drama, Instinct. Ms. Dixon was featured in singer Jasmine Sullivan's music video Meditation with new artist Goldlink. In Theater, prior to the challenge of portraying the great Harriet Tubman, Dixon acted as Aldonza in The Man of La Mancha, Bulrusher, Universal Language, A Colored Museum, and Titania in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. She played a police officer in Staten Island Outloud's production of Rashomon and varied roles in Lawrence Schwabacher's series of monologues Larry's Women Speak Out at the Dramatist Guild on Broadway. Christine has performed Harriet Tubman Herself throughout the New York area, The Caribbean, Georgia, Michigan, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Washington DC, for the NAACP, Black Lives Matter, National Council of Negro Women, Prudential Center in Newark at their 35th annual McDonald's Poetry Competition, museums, Gala's, The National Action Network, The Deltas Sorority, The Alpha Phi Alphas Fraternity, and The Black Bar Association. Ms. Dixon, won her tenth award for Ms. Canada at the Episcopal Actor's Guild for her portrayal of Harriet Tubman. Ms. Dixon was interviewed by the Huffington Post in the article, The Woman Who Portrayed Harriet Tubman 200 Times. Dixon's Fusion Magazine interview garnered almost 2 million views on Facebook. Brooklyn Borough President, Eric L. Adams, gave Ms. Dixon a citation for her work with the NYPD and as Harriet Tubman. Ms. Dixon received six grant awards from Staten Island Arts, to keep her work as Harriet Tubman going. Now heading into its' tenth year. Vera Moore Cosmetics, is now a sponsor of Ms. Dixon. Ms. Dixon's name, along with Traci Ellis Ross, John Singleton, Samuel L. Jackson, and Mary J Blige were put in a time capsule and sent to outer space on the Maven spacecraft, where it will orbit Mars for the next 500 years. Dixon has played the role of Harriet Tubman 450 times, with 440 standing ovations. Harriet Tubman Herself" was written specifically for Christine Dixon, by Hollywood playwright Morna Murphy Martell, the play is scored by music composer Ralph Martell, and styled by the late and great Keith Benedict. The show is booked in San Diego, Canada, Haiti, and Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Timbuktu and Zimbabwe. Ms. Dixon, is the first recipient of the Harriet Tubman Legacy Award, given to her in June 2018, by The Harriet Tubman Purple Hat Society. From August 2018 to December 2018, Ms. Dixon will be portraying a police officer on season two of the CBS show, Instinct. When Ms. Dixon isn't performing she enjoys scuba diving and patrolling the streets of New York City as an auxiliary police officer. Dixon, also collects and drops off food from movie sets to seniors citizens.
