Joanna Christie  Joanna Lauren Christie (born 10 April 1982) is an English actress and singer. She is noted for her work in the play "Equus" (2007) alongside Daniel Radcliffe, but is best known for her role as Girl in the Broadway musical "Once". Christie played Connie Murphy, one of the lead female characters, in the hit Netflix television series "Narcos". Christie was born and raised, in Huddersfield in West Yorkshire until the age of 13, when she was awarded a music scholarship to study flute, piano, and voice at Oundle School in Northamptonshire. Five years later, she moved to London to attend drama school at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. She joined the National Youth Theatre at 17, where she made her breakthrough stage role in "Immaculate Conceit", a play about a stripper who is pregnant with the next messiah. She then found small roles in television, before joining Kevin Spacey's "Old Vic, New Voices" collective for a year in 2005. She was delighted to be part of the collective of actors taking part in the 24-hour plays at The Old Vic. The group received its name because Spacey, who selected the actors, believed them to be the best new actors around. After a five-month tour of India performing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Jaipur in 2006, she returned to Britain, but endured a lean year and nearly gave up acting altogether when she landed the role of Jill Mason in her West End debut in "Equus" at the Gielgud Theatre. She beat over 300 other actresses to the role opposite "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe in Thea Sharrock's high-profile revival of Peter Shaffer's award-winning play. Christie lives in New York and her hobbies include yoga, running, kickboxing, and scuba diving. She used to be part of her brother's band called "Luke J Christie & The Held Breath" until she moved to New York City to star as Girl in "Once". Christie said that being on Broadway is "every dream [she's] ever had come true." However, right before she landed the role in "Once", she was about to give up. "I felt like I was at my lowest, and I decided to go back to university to do anthropology," she said in an interview with broadway.com. Her audition process was rather strenuous, having to learn two full songs on the piano and three scenes in a Czech accent in a mere 24 hours.