Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks
Christina Rene Hendricksis an American actress. She is best known for her role as Joan Holloway in the AMC drama television series Mad Men, for which she was nominated for six Emmy Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth3 May 1975
CityKnoxville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
good grown knowing saw wish
My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that.
joan walked
My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'
diets lose mom voluptuous
My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.
allow coming gets love respect says side takes women
I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.
great home love perfect solution vintage wear
Caftans are just the perfect solution to what to wear at home. I love Camilla Franks', but I also get great vintage ones on eBay.
salon work
I just thought I would work in a hair salon and do community theater.
hay heels high love miss pencil smell
I really do love being outdoors - I mean, you'd never think it in my high heels and pencil skirt! But I really do miss the smell of hay and farms, and I like milking a cow.
cut maybe
I like the old-fashioned, vintage-inspired swimsuits with halters and maybe a little ruching, and the longer cut that's almost short-shorts, like Ava Gardner used to wear a lot, right?
bad car constantly days head lucky saying stay straight
I'm constantly saying that I have bad hair days when I'm in New York. It's so hard. I've been lucky enough to jump immediately into a car, head straight to the location, and stay in the air-conditioning.
character thinking giving
I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.
badass firefly opportunity
All of a sudden I was Joan [Mad Man] and they're going, "Oh, so she plays a badass in this." And I'm like, "Oh my god, I get to play badasses." Firefly was a little bit of that, but she started out as a mouse and then she turned into a dragon. But I never really had that opportunity. So all of a sudden people were like, "Oh, do you feel like you're being typecast?" I would say, "No, this is just opening the doors." No one thought I could do it and someone finally trusted me to do it.
sweet doctors sides
I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her."
character way sidekicks
I often played the nerdy friend or the goofy sidekick or the sort of naïve movie character in some ways.
character men mad
I was the nerdy one. I always played those kind of characters until Mad Men.