JUNE CHRISTOPHER BIOGRAPHY
Native New Yorker June Christopher was also raised in Germany and Jamaica, so she speaks German and conversational French. She started as a stage actress in New York and attended Barnard College at Columbia University there. She has acted at the renowned New York Public Theater and did “Threepenny Opera” off-Broadway. She was a member of the famed Negro Ensemble Company before going back to Germany to tour with “Porgy and Bess” and doing a television series while living in Munich.
June then moved to Los Angeles where she appeared on dozens of TV shows, including “Now We’re Talking,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Close to Home,” “JAG”, “So Little Time,” and “The Jamie Foxx Show.” She has also appeared in roles in “Misery,” “Free Willy II,” “Dr. Dolittle,” “Blankman,” web series “Boxer,” and more.
Her heart is her family Michael Haney, and her twins Angela and Alex. While raising her family, June became one of the top voiceover actors in film and television. Some of her voiceover film credits include “Frozen,” “Frozen II,” The Angry Birds Movie 2,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse,” “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “X-Men: The Apocalypse, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,“ “The Incredibles 2,” “Big Hero 6,” “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” the Shield Computer voice on “Captain America,” and more.
She has also been a regular performer for voice on television, appearing often on the series “Law and Order,” “24,” “Chicago Med,” Chicago PD,” “Homeland,” “Madam Secretary,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Power,” “Snowfall,” “Greenleaf,” “The Resident,” and others.
As a writer, June has had deals at HBO, NBC, and Motown Productions. For years, she wrote a one-hour, weekly national radio anthology on the history of black music which led to a 12-hour history of Motown for radio and a 10-history of The Apollo Theater, which became “Motown Returns to the Apollo” for television.
As a producer, June and her husband, Michael Haney, produced the anti-bullying film “Charity” which won Best Family Film at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, Gold Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston, Award of Merit at the Accolade Global Film Competition. “Charity” was invited as an Official Selection to the Irvine International Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival, Kansas City FilmFest, Julien Dubuque International Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Social Commentary Award and Best Outstanding Cast Performance Award at the Action on Film Festival. She and her family have an anti-bullying foundation, the Stop Bullying Foundation, which uses this film to present in schools, college, and youth conferences to speak out against bullying. In everything she does, June looks to make the world a better place, seeking to touch hearts and minds.