Christina Hendricks

At 49 years old, Christina Hendricks has this physical status:

Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and former model.

Her awards include six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actor Guild Awards, and two Critics' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

Hendricks was born in Portland, Oregon, and Twin Falls, Idaho, where she became active in local theater as a result of a 2010 survey of female readers published in Esquire magazine. She was dubbed "the sexiest woman in the world" and named as America's Best Looking Woman in America.

Hendricks, who attended high school in Virginia, migrated to New York City and pursued a career as a model after winning a Seventeen cover contest.

For more than a decade, she performed professionally as a model before transitioning to acting. Hendricks appeared in numerous television series, including Beggars and Choosers (2001–2002) and Kevin Hill (2004–2005), before being cast as Joan Holloway on the AMC period drama series Mad Men, in which she remained a key cast member until the series's conclusion in 2015.

She has received critical esteem for her work on the series, earning six Emmy Award nominations and multiple Screen Actor Guild Awards for Best Ensemble.

Hendricks appeared in films as a result of Nicolas Winding Refn's thriller Drive (2011), Sally Potter's drama Ginger & Rosa (2012), and Ryan Gosling's neo-noir fantasy Lost River (2014), as well as Mad Men. Hendricks appeared in Another Period from 2015 to 2016, as well as in the Sundance TV drama series Hap and Leonard (2016).

She returned to Refn for a supporting role in his thriller film The Neon Demon (2016), Fist Fight (2017), The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), and the animated comedy Toy Story 4 (2019).

Tin Star (2017–present) and the NBC comedy-crime series Good Girls (2018–present) returned to television with starring roles.

Early life

Christina Renée Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the second child of American mother Jackie Sue Hendricks (née Raymond), a researcher and English father Robert Hendricks, a Forest Service employee originally from Birmingham, was born on May 3, 1975. She has dual British and American citizenship through her father. She has one older brother. Her family moved often due to her father's Forest Service work—first to Georgia, then to Portland, Oregon, where she spent elementary school.

The family moved from Portland, Idaho, where Hendricks spent elementary and middle school. She referred to her family as "outdoorsy" because they were on camping trips in the Pacific Northwest often. Her mother encouraged her and her brother to join a local theater company in Twin Falls to make friends, and Hendricks appeared in a Grease production. "I had all these amazing people through the theatre company," she recalled. And it was a community that genuinely valued theatre. The kids will perform a play and the whole town will be on display. "You were cool if you were an actor." Hendricks, a natural blonde, started coloring her hair red at age ten, inspired by Anne of Green Gables' book Anne of Green Gables.

When Hendricks was a child, her father's occupation required the family to move near Washington, D.C. They settled in Fairfax, Virginia. She referred to the change from Idaho to Virginia as "traumatic" for her, and Fairfax High School has a reputation for bullying her. Hendricks described herself as a "outcast" and a "goth" and found companionship in the school's drama department, where she appeared in plays. She trained ballet as a child, rather than theater. She graduated from Fairfax High School in her senior year and continued her studies at a local community college.

Personal life

Hendricks married actress Geoffrey Arend on October 11, 2009. Ten years ago, it was revealed that they had split, with a divorce finalized in December 2019.

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Career

After high school, Hendricks worked as a receptionist and shampoo girl at a salon before entering a competition to appear on the cover of Seventeen magazine. This resulted in her signing with IMG Models, after which she moved to New York City at age 18, forgoing her pre-acceptance into Virginia Commonwealth University's drama school.

She began modeling in New York, London, and Japan between the ages of 18 and 27 before transitioning into commercials. She lived in London for around a year during this period, living with two friends who were teachers. In her early twenties, she moved with her mother and brother to Los Angeles, California. Initially, she pursued a career in the administrative sector of the music business, but was dissuaded by friends, and kept working as a model before auditioning for acting roles. She appeared in commercials for Carl's Jr. and Dr. Pepper, and starred in the music video for Everclear's "One Hit Wonder" (1997). She was the hand model in the poster for the film American Beauty.

She made her television debut in the MTV anthology series Undressed. Her first starring role was as an intern on Beggars and Choosers, a Showtime comedy series about a group of young professionals that was filmed in Vancouver and ran from 1999 to 2001. She also had a guest role on the series Angel in 2000. She subsequently appeared in the television film The Big Time (2002), and had recurring guest roles on ER (2002), The Court (2003), and Firefly (2002–2003).

After a guest appearance on Tru Calling, she was cast as Nicolette Ray in the UPN legal drama Kevin Hill, which aired during the 2004–05 television season.

In perhaps her best-known role to date, Hendricks played office manager Joan Holloway on the AMC series Mad Men, set in the fictitious advertising agency in 1960s New York City. Her performance received critical praise, and earned her six Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series over the show's seven seasons.

Also in 2007, Hendricks made her feature film debut in La Cucina, a drama film that premiered on Showtime in December 2009, starring Hendricks as a writer. That year, she also starred in the thriller film South of Pico, and appeared in four episodes of the NBC series Life (2007–2008) in the recurring role of Olivia, detective Charlie Crews' soon-to-be stepmother and Ted Earley's love interest.

In 2010, she appeared in the musical video for "The Ghost Inside" on Broken Bells by Broken Bells.

She appeared in a supporting role in the action-thriller Drive (2011), directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. The following year, she was cast in a supporting role in Sally Potter's drama film Ginger & Rosa, playing the countercultural mother of a teenager growing up in the 1960s. In 2011, she appeared onstage in a production of Stephen Sondheim's Company at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She lent her voice and likeness in the 2011 racing video game Need for Speed: The Run, playing the role of Sam Harper.

In 2014, she played the lead character in Ryan Gosling's directorial debut Lost River, a fantasy film set in Detroit; it received mixed reviews. She starred in the novel adaptation Dark Places (2015). After the conclusion of Mad Men in 2015, she starred as a prostitute in two seasons of the Comedy Central series Another Period (2015–2016), set in the early 20th century.

In 2016, she appeared as one of the leads in Refn's thriller film The Neon Demon, portraying a modeling agent. Critical response to the film was polarized, though the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma named it the third-best film of 2016. The same year, she starred in six episodes of the series Hap and Leonard, playing the ex-wife of investigator Hap Collins.

In 2018, she appeared in home-invasion based horror film The Strangers: Prey at Night, playing the matriarch of a family under siege by killers. Upon release, the film received generally unfavorable reviews from critics, though The Guardian's Benjamin Lee praised Hendricks' performance. It was a commercial success, however, grossing $30 million.

In 2018, Hendricks returned to television in the Amazon Prime series The Romanoffs, reuniting with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. She stars as one of the leads on the NBC comedy crime series Good Girls, playing a woman who attempts to gain financial control of her life by holding up a grocery store. The show was ran to 2021. In late 2018, Hendricks starred opposite Sienna Miller in the drama American Woman, portraying a woman helping her sister raise her family in rural Pennsylvania. She also supplied the voice of Gabby Gabby, the main antivillain in the Disney/Pixar animated sequel Toy Story 4 (2019). In 2020, Hendricks voices Officer Jaffe in the Warner Bros. 2020' Scooby-Doo film Scoob!.

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