Erika Christensen

Erika Jane Christensen is an American actress and singer whose filmography includes roles in Traffic , Swimfan , The Banger Sisters , The Perfect Score , Flightplan , How to Rob a Bank , and The Tortured . 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 costars.

Christensen was born in Seattle, Washington, the daughter of Kathy , a construction manager, and Steven Christensen, an insurance worker and human resources executive. She has an older halfbrother, Nick, and two younger twin brothers, Dane and Brando. She has Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Welsh, and Irish ancestry. Christensen was raised in suburban Los Angeles, California. She started out acting on television in commercials for McDonalds. Christensen is a member of the Church of Scientology. Her parents became Scientologists in their 20s and raised her to be a Scientologist. Her parents also decided to homeschool her.

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