While this thread's initial post highlights her...
physique, Hendricks seems smart to me, too.
Christina Hendricks
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Born Christina Rene Hendricks, May 3, 1975,
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1999???present
Known for Role as Joan Holloway
Height 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m)
[1]
Spouse Geoffrey Arend (2009???present)
Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress known for her role as
Joan Holloway in the
AMC cable television series
Mad Men, and as Saffron in
Fox's short-lived series
Firefly. Hendricks was named "the sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of female readers taken by
Esquire magazine.
[2]
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Career
Hendricks has made a number of guest television appearances, starting as a regular in the series
Beggars and Choosers. Since then, she has starred in the series
The Big Time and
The Court, opposite
Sally Field and
Craig Bierko, as well as the legal drama
Kevin Hill. She has also had recurring roles in
ER and
Firefly and guest-starred in episodes of
Angel,
Miss Match,
Tru Calling,
Presidio Med,
Without a Trace, and
Las Vegas. Hendricks starred opposite
Kip Pardue in
South of Pico.
La Cucina, an award-winning
indie film, premiered on
Showtime in December 2009 and stars Hendricks as a sexy writer opposite
Joaquim de Almeida. She has appeared in four episodes of the
NBC TV show
Life in the recurring role of Olivia, detective
Charlie Crews' soon-to-be stepmother and Ted Earley's love interest. She also starred in music videos for "The Ghost Inside" by
Broken Bells,
[3] and
Everclear's "One Hit Wonder".[
citation needed]
Her best-known role is that of
Joan Holloway on the award-winning AMC series
Mad Men. Hendricks' character is the office manager of advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (SCDP), providing mentoring to a group of women who must deal with the come-ons and callousness of professional advertising executives.
She is set to appear in a new action-thriller directed by
Nicolas Winding Refn called
Drive alongside
Carey Mulligan and
Ryan Gosling.
[4]
Cultural influence
Hendricks, who in July 2010 was a U.S.
size 14,
[5] has received considerable positive attention due to her voluptuous figure.
[6] She has been credited as a role model for full-figured women
[5] and was nicknamed the "sexiest woman in the world" in 2010 in a poll of female readers taken by
Esquire magazine.
[2]
British Equalities Minister
Lynne Featherstone praised Hendricks'
hourglass figure as an ideal shape for women, saying "Christina Hendricks is absolutely fabulous... We need more of these role models. There is such a sensation when there is a curvy role model. It shouldn't be so unusual."
[5] Hendricks commented in September 2010 that the media is too focused on women's bodies and not their actual talents, "I was working my butt off on the show [Mad Men] and then all anyone was talking about was my body."[7]
A study by the British Association of Aesthetic
Plastic Surgeons attributed a 10% rise in 2010 of the number of British women receiving
breast augmentation surgery in part to Hendricks' influence.
[8]
Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara says her portrayal of
Joan Holloway has revolutionized perceptions of beauty on television.
[9] She has been called the "new modern ideal of Hollywood glamour???full figured, voluptuous; a throwback to the days of Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell and Veronica Lake."
[10] British designer
Vivienne Westwood selected her to represent its "Get A Life" Palladium jewelry collection in March 2011. Westwood described Hendricks as "the embodiment of beauty."
[11]
Personal life
Hendricks is a natural blonde and began coloring her hair red at the age of ten.
[12][13] She began acting in children's musical theater productions in Twin Falls, Idaho. On October 11, 2009, Hendricks married actor
Geoffrey Arend.
[14]
Awards and nominations
- Won the 2006 SyFy Genre Awards for Best Special Guest/Television for the Firefly episode "Trash".
- Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men (2007) shared with Bryan Batt, Anne Dudek, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, Elisabeth Moss, Maggie Siff, John Slattery, Rich Sommer and Aaron Staton.
- Won for the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men (2008)
- Won the 2009 Best Actress???Drama Series for Mad Men at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival
- Voted Best Looking American Woman by Esquire magazine in 2010.[15]
- Nominated for the 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Mad Men
- Tied with Margo Martindale for the Critics' Choice Television award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
- Nominated for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Mad Men
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