Christina Prokop

Posted by Gary Wiggins on Feb 25, 2017
 
Classification – Christina Prokop
  • Heritage 75% Russian, 25% Latvian
    • Great Grandmother, Mother (now 100 years old) and Father came to Canada after life in a refugee camp
    • Mother was born in Paris
    • Lived in Montreal when they came to Canada
    • Christina was born in Montreal
  • Grandmother had a great influence in her life
    • Taught her how to be ladylike, not swear or smoke in public, attend church every Sunday
    • Gave her a sense of independence
    • Spoke 7 languages
  • Christina has a brother – Ralph
  • Growing up her father's form of punishment was to sit with him and play chess
  • She debated with her father on boy and girl chores because she wanted to do the outside ( boy chores) work
and didn't understand why she had to do the inside (girl chores) work
  • Her parents spoke French, Russian and English
    • They separated after 18 years of marriage
  • Christina was a tomboy and played lots of sports while at the same time did modeling from age 12 to 24
    • At age 14 she had to make a decision to either continue in sports or modeling because the modeling agents 
were tired of trying to hide the bruises on her body from all sports activities.  She chose modeling.
  • Her first modeling contract took her took her to Japan, Munich and the USA over a 3 month period
  • Then she signed a 4 year contract in Tai Pai and traveled back and forth to Japan on a regular basis
  • Got sick, cut the contract short and went back home
  • She went to Toronto enrolled in the University of Toronto to study languages and took a job as a bartender
  • Then she got into the film industry as a Production Assistant to the Talent Co-ordinator to assist the Producer for 
12 years.   
  • She left the industry and her first husband and moved to the West Coast in 2005.
 
Here is where we ran out of time and we will have to wait for part 2 of her very interesting life's story.