Kristina Wagner is an American actress who was born on October 30, 1962 in Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from high school, her love of acting and dance led her to the local university to enroll as a theater major. While attending I.U.P.U.I in Indianapolis, she appeared in television commercials. At the age of 22, she landed her first acting job in Chicago and went straight to Los Angeles to work for the ABC long-running serial, General Hospital (1963). In 2006, she went back to college and enrolled as a history major at California State University Northridge. After graduation, Kristina directed, wrote, and produced her first historical documentary, Children of Internment (2013), with her brother, Joe Crump. In 2014, Kristina joined the cast of Hallmark's, When Calls the Heart (2014). She plays the role of "Nora Avery". She has two sons: Peter Wagner was born in 1990 and Harrison Wagner was born in 1994.