Trivia

She made her stage debut in 1905.

Christine van Meeteren was a teacher and a Dutch film actress of the silent era.

In the mid-1930s, van Meeteren began acting again, and played a role in Suikerfreule.

At the end of the 1940s, she finally retired from the stage.

In 1913, she and Chrispijn were invited by producer and director Maurits H. Binger to join his steady core of actors at Filmfabriek Hollandia. At Hollandia, Van Meeteren acted alongside e.g. Annie Bos in a number of comic films about the Zeeland girls 'Mijntje en Trijntje'.

Together with stage director Louis Chrispijn Sr. she toured the Dutch East Indies in 1908.

Van Meeteren stopped working at Filmfactory Hollandia, and in 1917 traveled to the Dutch East Indies for a second tour. During the voyage, she met her second husband. She then withdrew for almost twenty years from the theatre and film worlds.

In 1936, she also founded a film school that would help prepare beginning actors for a film career.

In 1936 she made a one-time return to the film industry, with a small role in: Komedie om geld (Comedy for Money), for which she also wrote the dialogue.

On 17 June 1909, Van Meeteren married the 30-year-old actor-director Louis H. Chrispijn, with whom she had a son.