Overview (4)

Born May 3, 1975 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA Birth Name Christina Rene Hendricks Nickname Christy Height 5' 8" (1.73 m)

Mini Bio (1)

Christina Rene Hendricks was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her father, Robert, originally from England, worked for the U.S. Forest Service, while her mother, Jackie Sue (Raymond), was a psychologist. At the age of 13 her father transferred to the Forest Service Washington, D.C. headquarters and the family moved to nearby Fairfax, Virginia. She began acting at school and went into modeling from the ages of 18 to 27. In her early 20s, she also began appearing on television, landing a recurring role in Beggars and Choosers (1999) in 2000 and another on Kevin Hill (2004) before rising to international fame in Mad Men (2007). As well as her more famously conventional awards nominations (Emmys) and wins (SAG Awards) she also won a SyFy Genre Award in for "Best Special Guest/Television" for her role as Saffron in Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly: Der Aufbruch der Serenity (2002).

- IMDb Mini Biography By: IMDb Editors

Spouse (1)

Geoffrey Arend (11 October 2009 - present) ( filed for divorce)

Trade Mark (7)

Known for playing intelligent and dominating women



Bright red lipstick



Voluptuous figure



Red hair and blue eyes



Breathy, girlish voice



Wearing glasses



Soprano voice



Trivia (22)

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.



In 1989, her family moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where she appeared in several high school plays and local community theatre.



She was a model from the ages of 18 to 27.





Always loved redheads like Ginger Grant from Gilligans Insel (1964).

Dyed her hair because of "Anne of Green Gables".



Ranked #89 in the 2012 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".



Ranked #33 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".



Ranked #82 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".



Ranked as having one of the most "beautiful famous faces" by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World." She was ranked #10 in 2010 and #21 in 2009.



Ranked #87 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011).



Ranked #14 on Askmen's list of the top 99 "most desirable" famous women for 2013.



Lived in Islington, London, England, UK. [1996]



Her father is originally from England. Her mother, who is American-born, has English, and small amounts of Norwegian and German, ancestry.





On her wedding day, she and her husband Geoffrey Arend danced to "The Origin of Love" from the film Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) as their first dance as a married couple.



Is a fan of British writer-director Richard Curtis



(December 13, 2019) Filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years Geoffrey Arend . Hendricks cited "irreconcilable differences" in the documents as her reasoning for the split, and listed their date of separation as April 19, 2019.



Her hand appears on the poster for American Beauty (1999) (the navel belonging to actress Chloe Hunter ).



Wanted to play Wonder Woman and her Drive (2011) director Nicolas Winding Refn wanted to cast her as well.

Has marionettes and makes crafts.



Personal Quotes (5)

I don't think any woman in the world could get tired of being compared to Marilyn Monroe.





I know that when I play Joan and she's going to react a certain way, I have to remember that she can only behave this way because the men at work wouldn't want her to act this way, or it's only appropriate to act this way, or a lady would do this. It's become so natural to me to look at the scripts of Mad Men (2007) in that way that I immediately almost become a woman of the 60's in my mindset.

I choose a project based on who's involved and my faith in them and the script and the rest you just let go.



It's so bizarre that people are constantly asking if my breasts are real or fake. They're so obviously real that anyone who's ever touched a breast would know.



[on her high school experiences in Fairfax, Virginia, where she and her parents had moved to from the small town of Twin Falls, Idaho, at the age of 13] I wore Birkenstocks and hippy dresses. I was surprised when I saw the other girls her age in Fairfax carrying purses [handbags]. I was like, 'Ooh, purses!' To me, only moms had purses. They were much more sophisticated and they were having sex and wearing makeup - all these things that had not happened for me. We had a locker bay, and every time I went down there to get books out of my locker people would sit on top and spit at me. So I had to have my locker moved because I couldn't go in there... I felt scared in high school. It was like Lord of the Flies. There was always some kid getting pummelled and people cheering. [She became a goth, dying her hair black and purple, shaving it at the back and wearing leather jackets and knee-high Doc Marten boots. Were her clothes a type of armour against what she was experiencing?] Yeah, exactly. My parents would say, 'You're just alienating everyone. You'll never make any friends looking like that.' And I would say, 'I don't want those people to be my friends. I'm never going to be friends with the people who beat up a kid while everyone is cheering them on. I hate them.'

