Hayden Christensen

Movie Actor

Hayden Christensen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on April 19th, 1981 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 42, Hayden Christensen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Den, H
Date of Birth
April 19, 1981
Nationality
Canada
Place of Birth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Age
42 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aries
Networth
$12 Million
Profession
Actor, Film Actor, Film Producer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Voice Actor
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Hayden Christensen Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 42 years old, Hayden Christensen has this physical status:

Height
183cm
Weight
74kg
Hair Color
Light Brown
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Athletic
Measurements
Not Available
Hayden Christensen Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Christianity
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Unionville High School, Markham, Ontario, Canada
Hayden Christensen Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Not Available
Children
1
Dating / Affair
Natalie Portman (2001), Reena Hammer (2001-2002), Eva Longoria (2005), Sienna Miller (2006), Rachel Bilson (2007-2010, 2010-2017), Emma Roberts (2017)
Parents
David Christensen, Alie Christensen
Siblings
Tove Christensen (Older Brother) (Actor and Producer), Hejsa Christensen (Older Sister) (Former Trampoline Champion), Kaylen Christensen (Younger Sister)
Other Family
Rose Rao Schwartz (Maternal Grandmother)
Hayden Christensen Life

Hayden Christensen (born April 19, 1981) is a Canadian actor and producer.

He started his career on Canadian television at the age of 13, and then transitioned to American television in the late 1990s.

He was lauded for his portrayal of Sam in Life as a House member (2001), receiving the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.

Christensen gained international recognition for his portrayal of Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader in the Star Wars prequel trilogy films. Act II – Attack of the Clones (2005) and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005).

These films have been nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actor and the Cannes Film Festival Revelation Award.

Stephen Glass' portrayal in the film Shattered Glass earned him further recognition.

Early life

Christensen was born in Vancouver to Alie, an American speechwriter, and David Christensen, a Canadian computer programmer and communications executive. His father is of Danish descent, and his mother has traces of Swedish and Italian descent. Christensen is one of three children, with three siblings; older brother Tove, older sister Hejsa, and younger sister Kaylen. Rose Schwartz, his maternal grandmother, spent summers on Long Island with him.

Christensen attended Unionville High School in Markham, Ontario. He played hockey competitively and tennis on a provincial level. He attended the Actors Studio in New York City, and he also studied at the Arts York drama department in high school. After accompanying his older sister to her agent's office after she landed a role in a Pringles advertisement, he began appearing in commercials, including Triaminic cough syrup in 1988.

Personal life

Christensen began dating actress Rachel Bilson, with whom he appeared in the film Jumper in 2007. They got engaged on December 25, 2008. They broke up in mid-2010 but a few months later, they began dating again. Bilson gave birth to their daughter on October 29, 2014. In September 2017, Christensen and Bilson were divorced.

Christensen acquired a farm near Uxbridge, Ontario, in 2007. In 2008, he said he had been renovating the house himself and was devoting time to researching "livestock, crops, and agricultural machinery." Christensen co-created with RW&Co in November 2013 to create a men's clothing collection based on his farm.

Christensen, a long-time Toronto Maple Leafs fan, made a public service announcement for Do Something's Teens Campaign in 2008. He appeared in Louis Vuitton's advertisements and was also listed as the face of Lacoste's newest fragrance, the Lacoste Challenge. He was included in RED's Lazarus Effect Campaign, which is designed to raise funds for the fight against AIDS in Africa.

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Hayden Christensen Career

Career

Christensen made his acting debut in September 1993, when he was 12 years old and appeared on the German-Canadian television program Macht Der Leidenschaft/Family Passions. In the year after, he had played a small part in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. He appeared in many films and television series from 1995 to 1999, including Harrison Bergeron, Forever Knight, Goosebumps, The Virgin Suicides, and Are You Afraid of the Dark.

He became more aware while acting in Fox Family Channel's television series Higher Ground in 2000, depicting a boy who was sexually assaulted by his stepmother, who then turned to heroin to drown his rage.

Christensen's critically acclaimed portrayal of a misunderstood teen in Life as a House (2001) earned him Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations, as well as the National Board of Review's award for Outstanding Achievement of the Year. Nevertheless, the results were not widely distributed in the media. Christensen made his London debut with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin in This Is Our Youth in 2002.

He went on to write glowing reviews for Shattered Glass's 2003, which tells the true tale of journalist Stephen Glass, who was discovered to be fabricating stories for The New Republic and other publications. "Hayden Christensen is as stunning as Glass," Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said, "Hayden Christensen is sensational as Glass, with the wonder boy and the weasel in a poor boy fluttering for a name he hasn't earned." Christensen made his Broadway debut in 2005 when he appeared briefly in a 10-minute play.

He participated in the fifth annual "24 Hour Plays" fundraiser in the Big Apple in 2005, which raises funds for nonprofit organizations.

Christensen revealed on May 12, 2000 that he would appear in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2001), and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2004). Skywalker was previously seen as a youth by Jake Lloyd in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999). Before director George Lucas selected Christensen, the casting director looked at nearly 1,500 other candidates. Lucas is credited with selecting Christensen because he "wanted an actor who has the appearance of the Dark Side." This was vital to solidify Lucas's story: Anakin Skywalker's demise and rebirth into Darth Vader.

Christensen asked Lucas if a special Vain suit could be made to fit his own body rather than having another actor don one of David Prowse's original sets of Vain armour. Lucas agreed, and a suit was engineered to fit Christensen's body, even including extensions to enable the actor to reach Vain's 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) height. Despite being dubbed by James Earl Jones, who first made the voice famous in the original trilogy, his voice as the "robotic" Vader was dubbed over by James Earl Jones.

In the 2004 DVD-release version of Return of the Jedi, Christensen was used, replacing Sebastian Shaw as the force ghost of the redeemed Anakin Skywalker. This was one of the most controversial reforms. Anakin's inner person should be restored to what he was before he shifted to the dark side, according to Lucas. Christensen argued that this was done without his knowledge, an act that was confirmed by Lucasfilm itself in the film "Return of the Jedi: What has changed?" The official website to honor the 2006 DVDs.

Critics generally disagreed with Christensen's appearance in both Episode II and III, although recent reports show that his execution was mainly affected by Lucas' directing and the dialogue, and that there has been a positive reappraisal in retrospect.

Christensen was one of the top 50 Most Beautiful People and Teen People under the age of 25 in both People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People and Teen People's Top 25 Hottest Stars under 25. He received the MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for his role in Episode III.

He appeared in Awake, a film about a man who is awake but compelled by heart surgery, as well as co-starring Factory Girl, opposite Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce. Christensen appeared in the film Jumper, a young man who finds he has the ability to teleport, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, and Rachel Bilson; the film was released on February 14, 2008. Bilson and Christensen co-starred in the same scene of the film "I Love You" in New York. In the Virgin Territory, which was released directly to DVD in North America on August 26, 2008, Christensen appeared opposite Mischa Barton. The film, which is based on The Decameron, is about a group of people who survived the Black Plague epidemic by hiding out in a Tuscan villa in Italy.

Christensen started shooting Vanishing, directed by Brad Anderson, in October 2009. Christensen appeared in the crime drama Takers with Idris Elba and Paul Walker, which was released in the United States on August 27, 2010. Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey is Christensen's fourth film in which he stars Samuel L. Jackson.

Christensen filed a lawsuit against USA Network in 2010 after being told that they stole his idea for the TV show Royal Pains. Christensen is accused of attending a conference in the United States to promote a similar type of housecalls, according to the complaint. Christensen claims he was never told that a similar project was under construction at the meeting. Though a federal judge dismissed Christensen's case in 2011, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision and remanded the case back to the district court for further hearings, according to what was considered a procedural victory for Christensen.

Enjoy Movies, a Russian company that works with Christensen and his brother Tove, announced the creation of Glacier Films on May 20, 2013. Glacier Films aims to produce 11 "micro-budget" films worth $1.5 million each over a three-year period. In June 2013, the first project, American Heist, starring Christensen, Adrien Brody and Jordana Brewster, began filming. It's a remake of Steve McQueen's The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery. He appeared in the American-Chinese-Canadian film Outcast, an action drama, with Nicolas Cage in 2014.

Christensen appeared in the film 90 Minutes in Heaven co-starring Kate Bosworth and directed by Michael Polish based on the best-selling book by the same name in 2015. Filming of an unveiled World War II Nazi zombie horror film titled Untöt began in 2015, starring Christensen. He appeared in the film First Kill in 2017 alongside Bruce Willis. He appeared in Little Italy, a Canadian-American romantic comedy, in 2018, and in the same year was in The Last Man.

Christensen returned to Anakin Skywalker in 2019, giving the character's voice in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Despite the fact that the dialogue used for the episode's final season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars was reused archival recordings from Revenge of the Sith, Christensen received a voice credit as Anakin Skywalker together with Matt Lanter for the penultimate episode of the final season of the animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Christensen will also reprise his role in the Disney+ series Ahsoka on October 22, 2021.

Christensen reprised his role as Anakin Skywalker / Darth Vader in the Obi-Wan Kenobi limited series on Disney+ in May 2022. Critics are applauding his portrayal, noting a dramatic change from his prequel trilogy appearance. He appeared in the documentary special Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return, which premiered on September 8, 2022, Disney+ Day.

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As he commemorates the iconic film's takeover event in New York, Darth Vader creator Hayden Christensen addresses Star Wars characters

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2024
On Thursday, Hayden Christensen stepped into the dark side once more as he posed with his Star Wars villain alterego Darth Vader at a special function at NYC's Empire State Building. As he met Anakin Skywalker and the ruthless Sith Lord in the Star Wars prequel trilogy from 2002-2005, the actor, 42, appeared excited as he clashed with the supervillain and a Stormtrooper at the function ahead of May 4th.

Hayden Christensen reveals he didn't think he'd get cast in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and opens up about the negative reactions to it

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 29, 2024
Hayden Christensen, more than two decades after he landed the role that changed his career - Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy - is sharing more of his story. In 2002's Star Wars: Episode II - The Clones' Edward Carter, the 42-year-old actor was just 19 years old when he accepted the role of Anakin Skywalker, the future Darth Vader. In a wide-ranging interview with Empire, Christensen is now talking about the complete process, from audition to filming to all of the film's negative reactions.

While looking back on her time with Hayden Christensen ahead of the saga's 25th anniversary, Natalie Portman admits that worrying Star Wars could have damaged her career: 'I was worried.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 10, 2024
Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen admit that being cast in the Star Wars prequels was a dream come true, but there were other questions as well. In an interview with Empire magazine, the actors who play star-crossed lovers Padme/Queen Amidala and Anakin Skywalker/future Darth Vader are revealing what it was like to play the iconic roles destined for them. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, the magazine has released two different covers to go along with the article. Both will be announced on February 15.

'Constant Conflicts' by Rachel Bilson & Hayden Christensen & her Differing Personalities Lead to their split

perezhilton.com, September 21, 2017
More details are coming out about Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen‘s separation news! On Wednesday, it was revealed that the couple of almost ten years had split, without giving any reason. Now, it’s being said their personalities are to blame!Related: Audrina Patridge’s Estranged Husband Under Criminal Investigation According to People, a source close to Rachel says the actors and parents have been struggling with their differences: "Rachel is outgoing, and her friends are really important to her." Hayden is the opposite. He can be very antisocial. Hayden hasn't wanted to attend special occasions, such as weddings. Rachel had to attend by herself. Her parents believed she should do better."

After ten years of marriage, Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen split

perezhilton.com, September 19, 2017
Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen have split after nearly 10 years together!Related: Ryan Phillippe Plans To Sue Ex For Defamation An Us Weekly source spilled: "She's back in Los Angeles, working full time." They've been on the outside for a few months. They are now officially completed.”
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