Christine Williams is a fictional character on the Australian drama series Tangle

Tangle (TV series)

Tangle is an Australian drama series for the Showcase subscription television channel. It focuses on the lives of two generations of two families and their tangled lives. Tangle is filmed in Melbourne and first screened on 1 October 2009...

. She is portrayed by Catherine McClements

Catherine McClements

Catherine McClements is an Australian actress.-Early life:Catherine is the third of four children, and after acting with the St Martin's Youth Arts Centre in Melbourne for a couple of years, she successfully auditioned for the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Art when she was 17...

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Character biography

The wife of Tim and stepmother to Max, Christine is a highly strung classical music-loving psychologist who works hard at life and never takes anything for granted. She's a fantastic mother to Max and a strong, challenging partner to her politician husband Tim. Organised, thorough and secretly ambitious, Christine is someone who is generally able to think a problem through and respond rationally and strategically, except when her family is threatened as it is here on manifold fronts.

In season two, Christine finds herself questioning her own morality

Morality

Morality is the differentiation among intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are good and bad . A moral code is a system of morality and a moral is any one practice or teaching within a moral code...

 when she becomes attracted to Spiros Georgiades

Spiros Georgiades

Spiros Georgiades is a fictional character on the Australian drama series Tangle. He is portrayed by Don Hany.-Character biography:Spiros Georgiades is a politician who was assigned to be an adviser to help further the up and coming career of Tim Williams . He is an ambitious man, with the...

 (Don Hany

Don Hany

Don Hany is an Australian award-winning actor. He is best known for his role in the series White Collar Blue, the film Lucky Miles and in the mini-series East West 101.-Biography:...

), Tim's political adviser. When Tim is told to take a job in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Christine doesn't go with him, fearing that if she did she would lose Max. After Tim leaves, she eventually succumbs to her growing attraction to Spiros.