Erika Christensen

  

Erika Jane Christensen (born on the 19th of August, 1982) is an American actress and singer whose filmography includes roles in Traffic (2000), Swimfan (2002), The Banger Sisters (2002), The Perfect Score (2004), Flightplan (2005), How to Rob a Bank (2007), The Tortured (2010) as well as The Case for Christ (2017). She won the MTV Movie Award in Breakthrough Female Performance for Traffic and also the Screen Actors Guild Award in Outstanding Performance by a Cast or a Group in a Motion Picture for her role in How to Rob a Bank (2007) as well as The Tortured (2010) and The Case for Christ (2017). Christensen was on the show from 2010 until the end of the series in 2015 as Julia Braverman-Graham on the NBC family drama Parenthood. She won a Gracie Award in 2014 for her performance in the role. Christensen played Betty Beaumontaine in ABC's crime drama series Wicked City. Christensen was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Kathy an engineer, and Steven Christensen, an insurance worker and human resource executive. She has an older half-brother Nick, and two younger twin brothers, Dane (who appeared in the film The Upside of Anger) and Brando. Her family tree includes Irish, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Welsh ancestry. Christensen was raised in Seattle she moved with her family to Los Angeles at the age of four. She began acting in television commercials for McDonald's, Volvo, and Volvo. Christensen belongs to the Church of Scientology. In her 20s, her parents were Scientologists. They raised her as one.