Roseanna Christiansen (Teresa the Maid) Dies at 71

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Roseanna Christiansen, Teresa the Maid on "Dallas", Dies at 71
by Mark Barnes
August 6, 2022


Roseanna Christiansen, who took care of the Ewing family’s sprawling Southfork ranch as the maid Teresa on the final nine seasons of the blockbuster CBS primetime soap opera "Dallas", has died. She was 71.

Christiansen died July 14 at Antelope Valley Medical Center in Lancaster, California, her husband, Steven Rizzo, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed.

Christiansen joined the David Jacobs-created series in 1982 for its sixth season and remained through the 14th and final season in 1991. She recurred on 112 episodes, with Tony Garcia as Raoul the butler giving her character a hand.




Christiansen met Rizzo at bible study in Culver City, not far from the Sony studios where Dallas was taped, and they married in June 1989. Survivors also include their children, Josiah and Grace, and her sister, Elba.

Christiansen was an ordained minister and an acting coach. Through her school Action! Acting, she guided thousands of students during her career.

“Many of her students refer to their private sessions as their ‘therapy sessions,'” her husband said. “Though in years her life was too short, she spent enough time here to plant the seeds of love, encouragement and beauty into everyone she met.”

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