Early life

Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Her mother, Jackie Sue (née Raymond), was a psychologist. Her father, Robert Hendricks, worked for the United States Forest Service and was from Birmingham, England. Through her father, she has dual US & UK nationality. Her family moved because of her father's profession, living in Fairfax, Virginia; Portland, Oregon and Twin Falls, Idaho.

Career

Hendricks began acting in children's musical theater productions in Twin Falls. She was a model from the ages of 18 to 27. She made her television début in the MTV anthology series Undressed. Her first starring role was in 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, which was filmed in Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. 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 writer opposite Joaquim de Almeida. She appeared in four episodes of the NBC series 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, and Everclear's "One Hit Wonder".

She played Joan Harris on the AMC series Mad Men as the office manager of advertising agency Sterling Cooper & Partners, providing mentoring to a group of women who must deal with the come-ons and callousness of professional advertising executives. Her performance has received critical praise, resulting in six Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

She appeared in the action-thriller Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, alongside Carey Mulligan and Ryan Gosling. In 2014, she played the lead character in Gosling's directorial debut Lost River, and in 2015, co-starred with Charlize Theron and Chloë Grace Moretz in the novel adaptation Dark Places. In 2015, she was cast as one of the leads in Refn's thriller film The Neon Demon.

Cultural influence

Hendricks has been credited as having an ideal shape for a woman. 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." Los Angeles Times television critic Mary McNamara says her portrayal of Joan has revolutionized perceptions of beauty on television. 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." 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." 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.

Hendricks has moved away from accepting the term "full-figured" and once lambasted a reporter who angered her by using the term while interviewing her. 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 and then all anyone was talking about was my body."

Personal life

Hendricks is a natural blonde and began coloring her hair red at age 10, inspired by the book Anne of Green Gables. She plays the accordion like her character Joan in Mad Men.

On October 11, 2009, Hendricks married actor Geoffrey Arend. She has said in interviews that she and her husband do not plan to have children.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	La Cucina	Lily
2007	South of Pico	Angela
2010	Leonie	Catherine
2010	Life as We Know It	Alison Novack
2011	The Family Tree	Alicia
2011	All-Star Superman	Lois Lane/Superwoman (voice)	Direct-to-DVD
2011	Detachment	Ms. Sarah Madison
2011	Drive	Blanche
2011	I Don't Know How She Does It	Allison
2012	Ginger & Rosa	Natalie
2013	Struck By Lightning	April
2013	From Up on Poppy Hill	Saori Makimura (voice)	English dub
2014	God's Pocket	Jeannie Scarpato
2014	The Pirate Fairy	Zarina (voice)
2014	Lost River	Billy
2015	Dark Places	Patty Day
2016	The Neon Demon	Jan
2016	Bad Santa 2		Post-production
2017	Fist Fight		Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Undressed	Rhiannon	4 episodes
1999	Sorority	Fawn	Pilot
2000	Angel	Bar Maid	Episode: "The Prodigal"
2000-01	Beggars and Choosers	Kelly Kramer	Main role, 19 episodes
2001	Thieves	Sunday	Episode: "Casino"
2002	ER	Joyce Westlake	4 episodes
2002	The Court	Betsy Tyler	6 episodes
2002	The Big Time	Audrey Drummond	Television film
2002-03	Firefly	Saffron/Bridget/Yolanda	2 episodes
2003	Miss Match	Sarah	Episode: "The Price of Love"
2003	Presidio Med	Claire	Episode: "Suffer Unto Me the Children..."
2003	Hunger Point	Frannie Hunter	Television film
2004	Tru Calling	Alyssa	Episode: "Murder in the Morgue"
2004-05	Kevin Hill	Nicolette Raye	Main role, 22 episodes
2005	Cold Case	Esther 'Legs' Davis	Episode: "Colors"
2006	Jake in Progress	Tanya	4 episodes
2006	Las Vegas	Connie	Episode: "Chaos Theory"
2006	Without a Trace	Rachel Gibson	Episode: "Check Your Head"
2007	Notes from the Underbelly	Holly	Episode: "First Night Out"
2007-08	Life	Olivia Canton	4 episodes
2007-15	Mad Men	Joan Harris	Main role, 92 episodes
2011	Body of Proof	Karen Archer	Episode: "Dead Man Walking"
2011	American Dad!	Naydern (voice)	Episode: "Gorillas in the Mist"
2015	Another Period	Chair	Lead role, 10 episodes
2015	Rick and Morty	Unity (voice)	Episode: "Auto Erotic Assimilation"
2016	Hap and Leonard	Trudy	6 episodes

Video game

Year	Title	Role
2011	Need for Speed: The Run	Sam Harper (voice)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Notes
2006	SyFy Genre Awards	Best Special Guest/Television	Firefly (Episode: "Trash")	Won
2008	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series	Mad Men	Won
2009	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Won
2009	Monte-Carlo Television Festival	Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama TV Series		Won
2010	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2010	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
2011	Critics' Choice Television Award	Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Won	Tied with Margo Martindale
2011	Monte-Carlo Television Festival	Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama TV Series		Nominated
2011	Screen Actors Guild Award	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series		Nominated
2011	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
2012	Critics' Choice Television Award	Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Won
2012	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
2013	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
2014	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated
2015	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series		Nominated

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