Christina Nolan is the American mother of Christopher Nolan, a former United Airlines flight attendant whose nationality gave her son a transatlantic identity and a lifelong familiarity with global displacement.
Christina's American background and occupation gave Christopher Nolan dual nationality and a childhood split between London and Chicago — the transatlantic duality that permeates his films' tension between British reserve and American scale.
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