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Christina Schmidt, sometimes credited as '''Chrissy Schmidt''', (born September 16 , 1987 ) is a Canadian Actress and Plus-size Model who was born in the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Schmidt took acting classes with television actor Dean Armstrong, known in the United States for his participation on Showtime 's '' Queer As Folk '' series. She also trained, before becoming an actress, with Kids on Camera, and The Second City , two prestigious training companies for aspiring actors. Her classes led to her first appearance, in the 2000 short Film ''Notes from Mother''. Her big break came when she was hired to play Terri MacGregor in the Canadian television hit ''''. Playing Terri represented a challenge for the Teenage actress, because the character becomes entangled in an abusive relationship near the end of her run on the show. By 2005 , Schmidt had begun to gain worldwide fame, as Degrassi was being seen in countries such as Australia and the United States, where it is broadcast by Nickelodeon 's The N channel. At the 2005 Young Artist Awards in ''. Christina is represented for fashion and print modelling by the Wilhelmina agency (ten20 division) in New York. She appears in the Fall 2007 ad campaign for MXM, which is Canada's best-known junior plus-size clothing line, and has modelled extensively for Torrid , which is a major junior-plus retailer in the U.S.A. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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