Trivia
- Crista's nickname is Cris.
- Crista is of Irish-American descent.
- Crista is 5'2" tall.
- She has brown hair and blue eyes.
- She attended Mount Vernon High School in Illinois and graduated from there in 1994.
- She hosted the second annual "The Ladies First Celebrity Golf Tournament," the only all-female charity event, along with then-fellow Mad TV actress Daniele Gaither in 2005.
- She plays "Hermoine" in the movie "Epic Movie." This is Crista's first movie role.
- She currently lives in Los Angeles (as of February 2007).
- Crista's first paying gig was as a heroine-addicted jogger on "ER."
- Crista claims her worst job before making it big was at "Country Cookin'," a buffet in Virginia where she was a waitress.
- She wears adult braces.
- Her favorite color is blue.
- Special skills include:
- Comedy improvisation
- Stage combat: unarmed, rapier/dagger
- Roller-skating
- Singing (alto)
- Stand-up comedy
- Dance
- Falls - Impressions on "Mad TV" include Meredith Viera, Lindsay Lohan, Heidi Klum, and Patricia Arquette.
- All of the characters Crista played on MTV’s “You’ve Got a Friend” were based on characters from her stand-up and sketch shows.
- She was the winner of 15 Minutes of Fem (a one-woman show festival) in 2003.
- Has done stand-up at:
- The L.A. Improv
- The Brea Improv
- The Comedy Union
- Knitting Factory
- The Comedy Store - Crista graduated from The University of Evansville, Indiana, with a Bachelor of Science and from UC, Irvine with a Master of Fine Arts.
- Supporting her background in live performance, she developed her own one-person show, But Wait…I Have Impressions, which played at the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles.
- Crista plays the title character in 'Hope is Emo' which is an very popular internet comedy podcast.
