How much is Christina Hendricks worth?
| Net Worth: | $11 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional actress |
| Date of Birth: | May 3, 1975 |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 1.71 m |
About Christina Hendricks
Hendricks played the office manager Joan Holloway in the AMC series Mad Men, which was set in a series of fictitious advertising companies in New York City in the 1960s. This part is considered to be Hendricks’ most well-known to date. Her work was hailed by the media, and she was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series during the course of the program has seven seasons.
Christina Rene Hendricks was the second child to be born to American mother Jackie Sue Hendricks (née Raymond), a psychologist, and English father Robert Hendricks, a Forest Service employee who was originally from Birmingham. Christina Rene Hendricks was born on May 3, 1975 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the second child to be born to American mother Jackie Sue Hendricks (née Raymond).
Because of her father, she is a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States. She has one brother who is older than her. Because her father worked for the Forest Service, her family moved quite a bit throughout her childhood. They moved to Georgia when she was only two months old, and then they moved to Portland, Oregon, where she attended primary school.
She began her modeling career between the ages of 18 and 27 in New York, London, and Japan, before shifting into the commercial acting world. During this time, she spent around one year in London, where she was hosted by two friends who both held teaching positions. She came to Los Angeles, California, with her mother and brother when she was just starting out in her twenties.
Her first appearance on television was in an episode of the anthology series Undressed on MTV. Beggars and Choosers was a Showtime comedy series about a group of young professionals that was filmed in Vancouver and aired from 1999 to 2001. Her first featured role was as an intern on the show, and it ran from 1999 to 2001. In the year 2000, she also appeared as a guest in the television series Angel. After that, she made an appearance in the television film The Big Time (2002), and she went on to have recurrent guest parts on the television shows ER (2002), The Court (2003), and Firefly (2002–2003).
In the drama film La Cucina, which was released on Showtime in December 2009 and starred Christina Hendricks in the role of a writer, Hendricks made her debut in the film industry in the year 2007. In the same year, she also acted in the suspense film South of Pico and made guest appearances in four episodes of the NBC series Life (2007–2008) as the recurring character Olivia. Olivia is the soon-to-be stepmother of detective Charlie Crews and the love interest of Ted Earley.
Hendricks tied the knot with fellow actor Geoffrey Arend on October 11, 2009. After another ten years, it was revealed that the couple had parted ways, and their divorce was formalized in December of 2019. As of the year 2021, she is involved with camera operator George Bianchini in a romantic relationship.
In 2014, she starred as the main character in the fantasy movie Lost River, which was Ryan Gosling’s first film as a filmmaker. The film was shot in Detroit and got a variety of reviews. She has a starring role in the film adaptation of the novel Dark Places (2015). After the final season of Mad Men aired in 2015, she went on to star as a prostitute in the first two seasons of the comedy series Another Period (2015–2016), which was broadcast on Comedy Central. The series was set in the early 20th century.
She played the grandmother of a family that was under siege by killers in the 2018 horror film The Strangers: Prey at Night, which was based on the concept of home invasions. Upon its first release, the movie was met with negative reviews from the majority of the media, with the exception of Benjamin Lee of The Guardian, who commended Hendricks’ performance. Despite this, it was a commercial success, bringing in a total of $30 million.
In the late 2018 drama American Lady, which also starred Sienna Miller, Christina Hendricks played the role of a woman who assists in the upbringing of her sister’s children in a remote area of Pennsylvania. She also provided the voice for Gabby Gabby, the primary antagonist in the Disney/Pixar animated sequel Toy Story 4, which was released in 2010. In the Scooby-Doo film Scoob!, which will be released by Warner Bros. in 2020, Christina Hendricks will lend her voice to the character of Officer Jaffe.
Summing-Up
Hendricks was raised in Portland, Oregon, and Twin Falls, Idaho, where she became prominent in the local theater scene. Although she was born in Knoxville, Tennessee to an American mother and an English father, she was raised in Portland and Twin Falls. Following the completion of her high school education in Virginia, she relocated to New York City and entered a modeling competition, which led to her pursuing a career in the fashion industry. She remained active in the modeling industry on a global scale for more than a decade before making the shift into acting.
After the cancellation of Mad Men, Christina Hendricks went on to feature in the television comedies Another Period and Hap and Leonard, both of which aired on SundanceTV, respectively, in 2015 and 2016. She then had roles in the comedy Fist Fight (2017), the horror film The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018), and the animation comedy Toy Story 4 (2018) after working with Refn again for a supporting role in his thriller film The Neon Demon (2016).
