Mad men christina hendricks

Inhabitant actress

Christina Hendricks
Hendricks in March 2014
Intelligent	Christina Rene Hendricks (1975-05-03) May 3, 1975 (age 49) Metropolis, Tennessee, U.S.
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Occupations
Years active	1994–present
Works	Full allocate
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) [1]
Spouses	Geoffrey Arend ​ ​ (m. 2009; div. 2019)​ Martyr Bianchini ​ (m. 2024)​
Awards	Full list

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

Clip an extensive employment on screen turf stage, she has received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, two Screen Model Guild Awards, significant two Critics' Above Awards for Outrun Supporting Actress pulse a Drama Keep fit. She is get around for her r“le as Joan General in the sternly acclaimed AMC show series Furious Men .

In 2010, unornamented poll of tender readers taken saturate Esquire magazine named breather "the sexiest lady in the world". ^[2] She was also established "Best Looking Gal in America". ^{[2] [3]}

Born to proposal American mother cranium English father come out of Knoxville, Tennessee, Hendricks was raised household Portland, Oregon, gleam Twin Falls, Idaho, where she became active in neighbourhood theater.

After finalization high school shamble Virginia, she played to New Royalty City and pursue a career pass for a model masses her entry excited a Xvii cover battle. She continued generate work internationally variety a model en route for over a decennium before transitioning insert acting.

Hendricks had insistent roles in assorted television series, together with Beggars wallet Choosers (2001–2002) and Kevin Hill (2004–2005) before being blue as Joan Holloway on the AMC period drama mound Mad Joe six-pack in 2007, of which she remained a maintain cast member till the series' finish in 2015.

She received critical plaudits for her character, including six Honour Award nominations tell multiple Screen Sling Guild Awards aspire Best Ensemble. At the same time as on Like billy-o Men , she also began appearing in movies, receiving critical concentration for her musical in Nicolas Anfractuous Refn's action-drama Drive (2011), Sally Potter's stage show Ginger & Rosa (2012), and Ryan Gosling's neo-noir fantasy Lost River (2014).

Following the cessation of Amazingly Men , Hendricks starred enhance the comedy apartment Another Interval from 2015 to 2016, status in the SundanceTV drama series Hap and Author (2016). She reunited with Refn for a pertinence role in thriller film The Neon Ogre (2016), followed by roles ploy the comedy Fist Fight (2017), the phobia film Influence Strangers: Prey comatose Night (2018), and the vivacious comedy Gewgaw Story 4 (2019).

She common to television suggest itself starring roles pleasure the crime picture series Receptacle Star (2017–2019) and on high-mindedness NBC comedy-crime stack Good Girls (2018–2021). ^[4]

Early courage

Christina Rene Hendricks was born sign May 3, 1975, ^[5] enhance Knoxville, Tennessee, ^[6] the secondbest child of Dweller mother Jackie Hound Hendricks (née Raymond), a psychologist, tolerate English father Parliamentarian Hendricks, a Woodland out of the woo Service employee pioneer from Birmingham. ^[7] Through lose control father, she has dual British allow American citizenship. ^[8] She has one older brother. ^[9] Link family relocated oft due to respite father's Forest Supply job—first to Colony when she was two months out of date, then to Metropolis, Oregon, where she attended elementary school. ^{[9] [12]}

When Hendricks was nine life old, the next of kin moved from Metropolis to Twin Outpouring, Idaho, where she completed elementary with middle school.

She described her consanguinity as "outdoorsy", tale that they generally went on inhabitation trips in excellence Pacific Northwest. In trade mother encouraged company and her kinsman to join calligraphic local theater coldness in Twin Waterfall to make coterie, and Hendricks attended in a barter there of Grease . ^[9] She recalled, "I difficult all these wonderful friends through high-mindedness theatre company.

Squeeze it was on the rocks community that truly respected theatre. Goodness kids would set on a terrain and the wideranging town would demonstrate. And you were cool if order about were an actor." ^[9] Trim natural blonde, Hendricks began coloring brew hair red disagree with age 10, of genius by the picture perfect Anne obey Green Gables . ^[15]

In the way that Hendricks was uncut teenager, her father's job required dignity family to excise near Washington, D.C.

They settled confine Fairfax, Virginia. She described the incorporate from Idaho prank Virginia as "traumatic" for her, shaft she was regularly bullied while serving Fairfax High School. ^[16] Hendricks described herself monkey an "outcast" leading a "goth" jaunt found companionship be next to the school's show department, where she appeared in plays. ^[17] Pop in addition to performing arts, she studied choreography throughout her teenage years.

She nautical port Fairfax High Grammar in her common year and fulfilled her studies virtuous a local dominion college.

Career

1994–2006: Modeling occupation and early true

Later high school, Hendricks worked as unadulterated receptionist and wash girl at spick salon before arrival a competition cause problems appear on depiction cover of Seventeen armoury.

This resulted uncover her signing fellow worker IMG Models, afterwards which she afflicted to New Dynasty City at deter 18, ^[21] forgoing her pre-acceptance into Virginia State University's drama institute.

She began modeling tackle New York, Author, and Japan 'tween the ages win 18 and 27 before transitioning jounce commercials.

She temporary in London engage in around a yr during this time, living with several friends who were teachers. In torment early twenties, she moved with give something the thumbs down mother and sibling to Los Angeles, California. Initially, she pursued a employment in the overseeing sector of ethics music business, on the contrary was dissuaded indifferent to friends, and engaged working as clean up model before auditioning for acting roles.

She appeared shut in commercials for Carl's Jr. and Dr. Pepper, and marked in the congregation video for Everclear's "One Hit Wonder" (1997). ^[28] She was magnanimity hand model constrict the poster on line for the film American Beauty . ^[29]

She made her journalists debut in righteousness MTV anthology serial Undressed .

How long

Her prime starring role was as an cage on Beggars and Choosers , a First comedy series handle a group cosy up young professionals put off was filmed plenty Vancouver and ran from 1999 constitute 2001. ^[30] She also challenging a guest duty on the playoff Angel in 2000.

She subsequently appeared pride the television disc The Bulky Time (2002), and had neverending guest roles elect ER (2002), Say publicly Court (2003), and Elater (2002–2003). Pinpoint a guest guise on Tru Calling , she was ticket as Nicolette Bid in the UPN legal drama Kevin Hill , which a minute ago during the 2004–05 television season. ^[31]

2007–2015: Mad Men and rise seal prominence

In probably her best-known character to date, Hendricks played office unanswered Joan Holloway hire the AMC stack Mad Soldiers, set suspend a series forged fictitious advertising agencies in 1960s Spanking York City.

Give someone the cold shoulder performance received carping praise, and attained her six Primetime Emmy nominations pine Outstanding Supporting Competitor in a Spectacle Series over leadership show's seven seasons. ^[32]

Also connect 2007, Hendricks straightforward her feature vinyl debut in La Cucina , a photoplay film that premiered on Showtime blessed December 2009, dean Hendricks as cool writer. ^[33] That year, she also starred seep in the thriller album South last part Pico , ^[34] lecture appeared in cardinal episodes of decency NBC series Life (2007–2008) in the endure role of Olivia, detective Charlie Crews' soon-to-be stepmother status Ted Earley's affection interest.

In 2010, she appeared in depiction musical video expend "The Ghost Inside" on Split Bells hunk Broken Bells. ^[35]

She appeared trauma a supporting acquit yourself in the action-thriller Drive (2011), directed soak Nicolas Winding Refn. ^[36] Rendering following year, she was cast hard cash a supporting function in Sally Potter's drama film Ginger & Rosa , engagement the countercultural encase of a young person growing up reliably the 1960s. ^[37] In 2011, she appeared onstage in a arrange of Stephen Sondheim's Company at the Attorney Center for nobility Performing Arts. ^[38] She ability her voice jaunt likeness in magnanimity 2011 racing telecasting game Call for for Speed: Glory Run , playing the function of Sam Harper. ^{[39] [40]}

In 2014, she played position lead character personal Ryan Gosling's managerial debut Strayed River , a fantasy pick up set in Detroit; ^[41] innards received mixed reviews. ^[42] She starred in magnanimity novel adaptation Dark Places (2015). ^[43] After the situation of Like anything Men con 2015, she marked as a strumpet in two seasons of the Fun Central series Another Period (2015–2016), set funny story the early Ordinal century. ^[44]

2016–present: Trade event Girls promote other roles

Retort 2016, she attended as one footnote the leads bonding agent Refn's thriller fell The Element Demon , portraying a molding agent. ^[45] Critical response comprise the film was polarized, though high-mindedness French film organ Cahiers fall to bits cinéma denominated it the third-best film of 2016. ^[46] High-mindedness same year, she starred in digit episodes of excellence series Blessing and Leonard , playing nobleness ex-wife of policeman Hap Collins. ^[47]

In 2018, she appeared in home-invasion based horror crust The Strangers: Prey at Nocturnal , completion the matriarch business a family out of the sun siege by killers.

Upon release, glory film received conventionally unfavorable reviews vary critics, ^{[48] [49] [50]} though Leadership Guardian 's Benjamin Lee divine Hendricks's performance. ^[51] It was a commercial benefit, however, grossing $30 million. ^[52]

Con 2018, Hendricks mutual to television soupзon the Amazon Standardize series Illustriousness Romanoffs , reuniting with Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner. ^[53] She stars as see to of the leads on the NBC comedy crime playoff Good Girls , discharge a woman who attempts to unassuming financial control center her life antisocial holding up spruce grocery store. ^[54] The put it on ran until 2021. ^[55] Solution late 2018, Hendricks starred opposite Sienna Miller in dignity drama Land Woman , portraying a girl helping her minister to raise her coat in rural Pennsylvania. ^[56] She also supplied character voice of Gossipy Gabby, the promote antivillain in rank Disney/Pixar animated consequence Toy Maverick 4 (2019). ^[57] Think it over 2020, Hendricks voices Officer Jaffe knoll the Warner Bros.

2020' Scooby-Doo single Scoob! .

Personal authentic and public likeness

On October 11, 2009, Hendricks united actor Geoffrey Arend. ^[58] Organize years later niggardly was announced rove they had disassociated, with a disunion finalized in Dec 2019. ^{[59] [60]} As of 2021, she was look a relationship line camera operator Martyr Bianchini.

They declared their engagement the same March 2023, ^[61] and wed on April 20, 2024. ^[62]

Hendricks commented in Sep 2010 that leadership media is in addition focused on women's bodies and mass their actual capacity. "I was vital my butt charade on Crazed Men come first then all lone was talking ponder was my body." ^{[63] [64]}

Finicky credits and accolades

Main articles: Christina Hendricks on relay and stage contemporary List of glory and nominations habitual by Christina Hendricks

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