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Christina Hendricks Profile |
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Birth Date: May 3, 1975
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Birth Place: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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Birth Name: Christina Rene Hendricks
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Christina Hendricks is an American actress best known for
her starring role as Joan Holloway in the AMC cable
television series Mad Men, and as Saffron in Fox's short
lived series Firefly.
Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in
Twin Falls, Idaho from third through eighth grade. In 1989,
her family moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where Hendricks
appeared in several high school plays and local community
theatre. She got her start acting in Junior Musical
Playhouse productions, including Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat. Hendricks is a natural blonde; she
has been dyeing her hair red since she was 10 years old.
As an actress, Hendricks has made her mark in a number of
guest TV appearances. Her first television break came when
she became a regular in the series Beggars & 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
law 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. 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.
However, her best-known role is that of Joan Holloway on the
Emmy- and Golden Globe- winning AMC series Mad Men. The show
centers on the macho, booze-soaked world of advertising in
New York City in the early 1960s. Hendricks' character is
the office manager of Sterling Cooper, providing dubious
mentoring to a group of women who must deal with the
come-ons and callousness of professional advertising
executives. Mad Men premiered on July 19, 2007 and wrapped
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Her character in the TV series "Firefly" (2002) never gave
her real name. The three aliases the character used,
Yolanda, Saffron, and Bridget, were contracted into the
nickname "Yo-Saf-Bridge" in the episode "Trash".
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, but raised in Twin Falls,
Idaho since the age of three.
Although known as a redhead, Hendricks is a natural blonde
having dyed her hair since she was 10 years old. |
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since April 9, 2009