edgepedia

Arts and culture

124,020 articles

Christine Elise

Christine Elise (Christine Elise McCarthy), American actress born 1965 in Boston; Emily Valentine on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Kyle in Child's Play 2, Cult of Chucky, and the Chucky series; also writer, photographer, novelist.

Christine Estabrook

Christine Estabrook (Mary Christine Estabrook), American actress trained at Yale School of Drama; Obie and Drama Desk winner on stage, known as Martha Huber on Desperate Housewives, Gail Holloway on Mad Men, and Marcy on American Horror Story.

Christine Hà

Christine Hà (born 1979) is a Vietnamese American chef, the first blind contestant and season 3 (2012) winner of MasterChef US, author of the New York Times best-seller Recipes from My Home Kitchen, and owner of Houston restaurants The Blind Goat, Xin Chào, and Stuffed Belly.

Christine Kaufmann

Christine Kaufmann (Christine Maria Kaufmann), Austrian-born German actress (1945-2017): child star of Rosen-Resli, Golden Globe for Town Without Pity, wife of Tony Curtis, later New German Cinema actress and cosmetics author.

Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti, also Christine Ann Lahti, is an American actress and filmmaker born 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan; Oscar winner for the short film Lieberman in Love, Oscar nominee for Swing Shift, Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Chicago Hope.

Christine Lakin

Christine Lakin (Christine Helen Lakin) is an American actress, director and audiobook narrator, known as Al Lambert on 1990s sitcom Step by Step and later a TV director on The Goldbergs.

Christine Lampard

Christine Lampard (née Bleakley), Northern Irish TV presenter born 1979; BBC floor manager turned The One Show co-host with Adrian Chiles, ITV's Daybreak, Dancing on Ice, and Loose Women anchor since 2016; married Frank Lampard in 2015.

Christine McVie

Christine McVie (Christine Anne Perfect, 1943-2022), English singer-keyboardist; Chicken Shack vocalist who joined Fleetwood Mac in 1970, wrote Don't Stop, Little Lies, Everywhere, Songbird; Rumours sold 40 million.

Christine Quinn (actor)

Christine Bently Quinn (born 1988, Dallas) is an American reality TV personality and former actress, the villain of Netflix's Selling Sunset (2019-2022), author of How to Be a Boss B*tch, RealOpen co-founder, and season 10 returnee.

Christine Taylor

Christine Taylor (Christine Joan Taylor Stiller, born 1971) is an American actress from Allentown, Pennsylvania, known as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and for Zoolander, DodgeBall, and Hey Dude, and married to Ben Stiller.

Christine Tremarco

Christine Tremarco (born 1977, Liverpool) is a British actress known for Davina Shackleton in Waterloo Road and Manda Miller in Netflix's Adolescence (2025), earning a 2025 Emmy nomination and a 2026 BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress.

Christmas

Christmas is the Christian festival of Jesus' birth, kept on December 25 since the Roman calendar of 354 A.D., preceded by the older Epiphany feast of January 6; its date's origin is disputed between calculation theory and pagan solar-festival alignment, and since the 19th century it is also a secular, commercialized global holiday.

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) is a 1963 Christmas song by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, and Phil Spector, sung by Darlene Love as the only original on A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, later famous via Letterman and Mariah Carey's 1994 cover.

Christmas (Michael Bublé album)

Christmas (2011) is Michael Bublé's first full-length holiday album, produced with Bob Rock, David Foster, and Humberto Gatica. It has sold over 30 million copies, topped UK and US charts, and returns yearly.

Christmas & Chill

Christmas & Chill is Ariana Grande's second Christmas EP, a six-track, 13-minute original R&B holiday set released December 18, 2015 on Republic Records, later reissued with "Santa Tell Me".

Christmas and holiday season

The Christmas and holiday season, also called the holiday season, is the annual period of celebration, gift giving, and family gathering centered on Christmas, running from late November through New Year.

Christmas carol

Christmas carol: a religious or traditional song sung at Christmas, from medieval burden-and-stanza dance songs through the 19th-century Neale, Helmore, and Sandys revival to modern favorites like Silent Night.

Christmas Carol (크리스마스 캐럴) (2022 film)

Christmas Carol (크리스마스 캐럴) is a 2022 South Korean action thriller directed by Kim Sung-soo, based on Joo Won-kyu's novel, starring Park Jin-young as twin brothers in a juvenile-detention revenge story; released December 7, 2022, 130 minutes, 18+ rating.

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong is a Mischief Theatre comedy about the Cornley amateur society botching Dickens's A Christmas Carol: a 2017 BBC TV special starring Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg, and a 2025 stage version at the Apollo Theatre that toured, was filmed, and returns worldwide in 2026/27.

Christmas carp

Christmas carp: pond-raised carp eaten fried with potato salad on Czech Christmas Eve, also in Poland, Slovakia and Austria; bought live from street tanks, bathtub-kept, scales kept for luck.

Christmas cracker

Christmas cracker: British festive novelty invented by Tom Smith (1823–1869) from French bon bons; patented 1847, silver fulminate snap, Cosaques name, Tom Smith royal warrant, 50 million made yearly.

Christmas dinner

Christmas dinner, the festive meal of Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, or Epiphany, known in Britain and America for roast turkey, stuffing, and Christmas pudding. Its modern menu emerged in the nineteenth century; other traditions center on carp, ham, lamb, or KFC in Japan.

Christmas Eve, Happy Club

Christmas Eve, Happy Club (Nuit de Noël) is a 1963 black-and-white photograph by the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé, showing a young couple dancing at an outdoor nightclub in Bamako.

Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스)

Christmas in August (8월의 크리스마스) is Hur Jin-ho's 1998 Korean melodrama debut, starring Han Suk-kyu and Shim Eun-ha, about a terminally ill photographer; Cannes Critics' Week 1998, Baeksang and Blue Dragon Best Film. Not the 2017 Song Hye-rin short of the same name.

Christmas in Connecticut

Christmas in Connecticut (1945) is a Warner Bros. screwball romantic comedy directed by Peter Godfrey, starring Barbara Stanwyck as columnist Elizabeth Lane, with Dennis Morgan and Sydney Greenstreet; released August 11, 1945, remade for TV in 1991.

Christmas in July

Christmas in July, also called Yulefest or Midwinter Christmas, is an unofficial July celebration with Christmas-themed parties, sales, and events. Oldest reference: Massenet's 1892 opera Werther; first US celebration: Keystone Camp, North Carolina, 1933; popular in Australia as a winter festival.

Christmas in Paris

Christmas in Paris (Christina Aguilera: Christmas in Paris) is a 2025 concert film directed by Sam Wrench, marking 25 years of My Kind of Christmas; 1h 25m, filmed at the Eiffel Tower and Crazy Horse, released December 2025 via Fathom.

Christmas in the Philippines

Christmas in the Philippines, Pasko sa Pilipinas (Pasko), is the September-to-January holiday season widely called the world's longest. Its defining customs are the Ber months, Simbang Gabi dawn Masses, parol lanterns, Noche Buena, and Jose Mari Chan's "Christmas in Our Hearts."

Christmas Karma

Christmas Karma is a 2025 Bollywood-inspired musical adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, directed by Gurinder Chadha, starring Kunal Nayyar as Mr. Sood with Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, and Boy George as ghosts, released November 14, 2025.

Christmas lights

Christmas lights: strings of electric lamps, now mostly LEDs, for decorating trees and homes. Invented as hand-wired bulbs by Edward H. Johnson in 1882; mass-market via GE kits (1903) and NOMA; LEDs use about 70% less energy than incandescent.