Christina Hendricks

 Christina Renee Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress and model. She has enjoyed a long career in the world of stage and screen, winning numerous awards including six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. The critics also awarded two Critics' Choice Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Her most well-known performance is that of Joan Harris on the AMC drama series Mad Men. In 2010, a survey of female readers conducted by Esquire magazine named her "the sexiest woman in the world". Hendricks was also voted the "Best Looking Woman in America." She was born to an American mother in Knoxville, Tennessee and an English father in Twin Falls, Idaho. After high school, she graduated. in Virginia she relocated to New York City, where she pursued a career of modeling after winning an Seventeen cover contest. She continued to travel the world as a model for more than 10 years before transforming into acting.Hendricks played recurring roles on several television series, including Beggars and Choosers (2001-2002) and Kevin Hill (2004-2005) before being chosen to play Joan Holloway on the AMC period drama series Mad Men in 2007, and remained an integral part of the cast until the series' conclusion in the year 2015. The role was praised by critics as well as six Emmy Award nominations as well as numerous Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was also in the action-drama Mad Men's Drive (2011) and Sally Potter's drama Ginger & Rosa (2012) and Ryan Gosling’s neo-noir fantasy Lost River (2013). Hendricks also starred in the SundanceTV drama series Hap and Leonard (2016). Refn brought her back with her for a role in The Neon Demon (2016). It was followed by roles in Fist Fight (2017) and The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018). Her return to television was as a star on the crime drama series Tin Star (2017-2019) and on the NBC comedy-crime series Good Girls (2018-2021).