Erika Jane Christensen (born August 19, 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), and
The Case for Christ (2017). For her performance in Traffic, she won
the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance and the Screen
Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture along with her co-stars.In 2006, she starred on the
short-lived drama series Six Degrees on ABC. From 2010 until its
ending in 2015, Christensen starred as Julia Braverman-Graham on the
NBC family drama series Parenthood. In 2014, she won a Gracie Award
for her performance in the role. Christensen portrayed Betty
Beaumontaine on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked
City.Christensen was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of
Kathy (née Hendricks), a construction manager, and Steven
Christensen, an insurance worker and 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
has Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh, and Irish ancestry.
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), and
The Case for Christ (2017). For her performance in Traffic, she won
the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance and the Screen
Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion
Picture along with her co-stars.In 2006, she starred on the
short-lived drama series Six Degrees on ABC. From 2010 until its
ending in 2015, Christensen starred as Julia Braverman-Graham on the
NBC family drama series Parenthood. In 2014, she won a Gracie Award
for her performance in the role. Christensen portrayed Betty
Beaumontaine on ABC's short-lived crime drama series Wicked
City.Christensen was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of
Kathy (née Hendricks), a construction manager, and Steven
Christensen, an insurance worker and 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
has Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh, and Irish ancestry.
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