Erika Christensen
Erika Jane
Christensen (born August 19, 1982) is an American actor and singer whose
filmography includes appearances in Traffic (2000), Swimfan (2002), The Banger
Sisters (2002), The Perfect Score (2004), Flightplan (2005), How to Rob a Bank
(2007), The Tortured (2010) The Tortured (2010), and The Case for Christ
(2017). She was awarded the MTV Movie Award in Breakthrough Female Performance
for Traffic as well as the Screen Actors Guild Award in Outstanding Performance
by an Ensemble or Cast in a Motion Picture for her role in How to Rob a Bank
(2007) The Tortured (2010) as well as The Case for Christ (2017). From 2010
until the end of the series in 2015, Christensen played Julia Braverman-Graham
on NBC family drama series Parenthood. In 2014 she won a Gracie Award for her
performance in the role. Christensen played Betty Beaumontaine on ABC's
short-lived crime drama series Wicked City. Christensen was a Seattle native,
the child and son of Kathy Christensen and an engineer and Steven Christensen
who is an insurance professional, as well as a human resources executive. She
has an older half-brother Nick and two younger twin brothers, Dane (who
appeared in the 2005 film The Upside of Anger) and Brando. She is of Danish,
Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Welsh, and Irish family ancestry. Christensen
was born in Seattle and lived there until she was 4 years old. Her family
relocated to Los Angeles in suburban Los Angeles as they searched for a new
place to live. Christensen is a member of Church of Scientology. Her parents
became Scientologists in their 20s while living in Seattle and she was raised
as a Scientologist.
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