Celebrity Biographies
christina hendricks
Hold on, curves are coming. Her explosive boss secretary in “Mad Men” has launched the acting career of Christina Hendricks, who began as a model before making it big on the small screen.
Christina Rene Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, on May 3, 1975. However, she spent her childhood in Twin Falls, Idaho, where her English-born father worked in the forestry department. Her spectacular guy and her red hair have made her famous, but the reality is that her hair originates from Christina is blonde, although she began to dye it at an early age.
He did his first acting steps at school, in musical productions for parents and students. His physical attractiveness facilitated a career as a model, between the ages of 18 and 27. And she would begin to have brief appearances in television series, some as well-known as ER , where she was in 2002. But let’s not kid ourselves, they weren’t great roles.
His first truly major role was in a short-lived series, Firefly , Joss Whedon ‘s sci-fi revolving around the wanderings of the crew of the spaceship Serenity. Curiously, despite its early cancellation, it is considered a cult series, and later had a film version, Serenity , by Whedon himself. Then he would be on the small screen in products unknown outside the United States, such as Kevin Hill and Jake in Progress .
But if Hendricks owes her celebrity to a television series, it is Mad Men , created by Matthew Weiner in 2007, an acid look at the world of advertising in the 1960s, where she is Joan Harris, the voluptuous and controlling head of secretaries. of an agency, a character that is not easily forgotten. Another series where the actress was seen is Life.
In cinema, Hendricks has made some first steps, although there he has not excelled, let’s be clear. His most prestigious film is Drive , by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn , but of course, in this film about a criminal driver in search of redemption, the actors one remembers are Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan . In any case, it is a prestigious title, as is the television series that has given it just fame. And the work is not lacking, because apart from undertaking the fifth season of Mad Men , the actress shot up to five films in 2011, including The Professor (Detachment) , The Family Tree -where she is the protagonist- and Temptation in Manhattan .
Married since 2009 to Geoffrey Arend , who is also a rather secondary actor , Hendricks is looking at the new film Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter , perhaps a new mark of prestige for a career on the rise.