Christina Crawford

Biography

Christina Crawford was born on June 11, 1939, to Bernice Iva Siglar in Los Angeles and later adopted by film star Joan Crawford at age one. She became an actress in the 1960s, notable for her role as Monica George in "Wild in the Country" (1961). Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest (1978) exposed alleged abuse she suffered at the hands of her adoptive mother, catapulting her to notoriety and cementing her place in pop culture history.