Kristian Michaels

Kristian "Chriserella" Michaels (born Christina Columbus Michaels; July 6th, 1970) is a American-Canadian artist, animator, actress, and LGBT activist, who has worked on multiple shows and for being a transgender woman. She is married to Robert Stainton. She directed Halloween Nightmare and a couple other episodes.

She also starred in The Jeff Jones Show.

History
Kristian was born at Bridgepoint Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as "Christopher Columbus Michaels" to an American father and a Canadian mother. She was given this name because her father was a huge history buff, however he made a typo and gave her the name of "Christina Columbus Michaels".

Kristian and her parents moved to East St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States after her birth. At a young age,



Kristian's mom would force her to wear girl's clothing because she had always wanted a daughter. Little Kris was traumatized, horrified, and sickened...but curious. She was infatuated with the feel of angora on her skin. From that point on, she wanted to become a girl.

She often crossdressed, and often bought girls clothing to keep for herself.

After having a sex change at a teen age in 1983, she got her first VCR and first video camera, a 1978 Panasonic PV-1100 VHS VCR and a VHS-C camcorder with VHS and VHS-C tapes (along with VHS-C cassette adapters), all of which she still owns today. Her most prized possession is her VHS-C of a Conrail lite engine move passing her and a couple friends while she was visiting Maryland in 1987, a hour before the 1987 Maryland train collision. Kristian's first paid job was being a actress, where her agent got her a role, she starred in The Jeff Jones Show as Moose Edwards, Jack Jones' girlfriend (and later wife).

In 1998 she married Robert Stainton. They decided to keep their last names for reasons unknown. She revealed her secret about being transgender to Robert in 2000 and Robert expressed surprise and happiness over it.

List of roles

 * Moose Edwards (1987-1994, The Jeff Jones Show)
 * Thea Stilton and Simon Squealer (1991-1994, voices, The Jeff Jones Show animated segments)
 * Bunny Dwaggin' (1992, Dragons of Tromaland)
 * Evila (1992-1998, Sylvan, American English dub)
 * Evila (1994, Sylvan, DTV film)
 * Marcus (1999-2004, voice, The Dog Pound)
 * Elizabeth (2002, Thomas & Friends read-along audio tapes)
 * Miss Worm (2013, Wayside, DTV film)
 * Moose Edwards (2014, Return to the JeffCave, television movie)