Trivia

Learned to play the bass for her role in How I Met Your Mother (2005).

Her paternal grandfather was of Italian (Sicilian and Calabrian) origin, and Cristin calls her family "Olive Garden" Italian. The rest of her ancestry is Belgian, Czech, Irish, Scottish, and English.

Took acting classes at New York University.

Graduated from Cherry Hill High School East. in 2003.

She played cancer patients in How I Met Your Mother (2005) and in Season 2 of Fargo (2014).