Krista Errickson was an American actress from 1978-1992, and is a life
time member of the Actors Studio. She appeared in films and television
productions in the 1980s and 1990s. She is perhaps best known for her
breakout role in the 1980 movie
Kleine Biester (1980), and the
1992 film,
Mortal Passions (1989), for which
she won numerous acting awards for, including the prestigious Deauville
and Taormina Best Actress Awards. She also co-starred in TV series such
as Hello, Larry (1979),
Nam: Dienst in Vietnam (1987), and
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
Krista Errickson's professional career as a News Journalist began with
RAI's (RadioTelevisioneItaliana) Channel 1 before becoming host for the
first Italian private radio station, followed by the first private
Italian Television, RAI International and RAISAT, winning the Best
Emerging Young Journalist (Giovane Personalità ) in 1995.
She became a Senior Producer and Journalist, reporting on current
events and international politics, with a focus on Middle East
relations. Some her more well-known programs were, The Yellowcake
Uranium Scandal (2007), RAWA's Meena: The Story of a Revolutionary
(2006), and In the Name of God (1996), about Iran's Islamic
fundamentalism. She was the first female journalist to interview
Sheikh Sayyid Hassan Nasrullah
for her documentary, Inside the Hezbollah (2001), which later became
the subject of an award winning book she helped coauthor. For CBS and
Discovery, she was Co-executive Producer for controversial programs
such as,
The Mysterious Man of the Shroud (1997),
Inside the Vatican and The Genetic Revolution (1998), a four-part
series which in part, exposed secret genetic experiments conduced by
Monsanto Corporation. She has won two Boccaccio Awards for Program of
the Year, the Pasolini Award and the Film Advisory Board Award for Best
Documentary.
Errickson was a Contributing Development Director for GRB Productions,
GA & A Productions, Capmar Productions, and DocLab Productions, which
produced programs for major American cable channels, and a
Segment/Field Producer for Sundance Channel, The Learning Channel,
Discovery Channel and the CBC.
She worked as an Intelligence Analyst at a Washington, DC think tank
until 2008. In 2007, as part of a team, she went to Pakistan and
Afghanistan, which ultimately resulted negotiating the release of a
kidnapped Italian journalist from the Taliban. In 2008, she
successfully aided a political prisoner escape a Teheran jail and
certain death, which was chronicled in the New York Times. She was
recognized for her work in Iran with the Filippo Mazzei Award and The
Bridge Iran-It.
She works as freelance journalist as President of Free Verse
Productions, which develops and produces documentaries and news
programs, specializing in political, human interest and human rights
issues. She is a contributing writer to Italy's La Repubblica.
Errickson holds a B.A. in Political Science, and received her master's
in 2008 from the University of Wales at Lampeter in Islamic Studies.
She was married to the journalist and Deputy Director of RAI
International Piero Di Pasquale. She
is a member of the International Press Association, Foreign Press
Association, The Committee to Protect Journalists, and The
Daniel Pearl Foundation.
She is also the granddaughter of famed Broadway set designer,
Jo Mielziner, considered one of the most
influential theatre designers of the 20th century, designing the
scenery and often the lighting for more than 200 productions, many of
which became American classics. Errickson is also the goddaughter to
the late Elia Kazan, legendary American film
and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter,
novelist and co-founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in
1947.
