Erika Christensen
Biography
Erika Christensen is an American actress, born in Seattle, who started in television commercials and a supporting role in Leave It to Beaver (1997) before guest roles on shows such as Frasier and The Practice. For her performance as Caroline Wakefield in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000), she won the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance and a Screen Actors Guild Award with the cast. She went on to films including Swimfan (2002), The Banger Sisters (2002), The Perfect Score (2004), Flightplan (2005), and The Case for Christ (2017). On television, she starred on Six Degrees, played Julia Braverman-Graham on Parenthood from 2010 to 2015 and won a 2014 Gracie Award for it, and later appeared in Wicked City, Ten Days in the Valley, and Will Trent as Angie Polaski.
44years old
Turns 45 on August 19in 311 days
- Born Seattle
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Also credited as Erika Jane Christensen
Movie Career
- Films
- 19
- Career span
- 25 years1997 to 2022
First and latest
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Behind the award
In Steven Soderbergh's crime drama Traffic (2000), Christensen played Caroline Wakefield, a cocaine user. That part brought her the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance, the Young Hollywood Award for Standout Performance - Female, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
Beyond film
Christensen recorded multiple songs for the soundtrack of MTV's 2003 television film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, in which she also starred.
Beyond film
In 2005, Christensen recorded "Let's Fall in Love" with John Stevens. The version appeared on Red, which was Stevens's debut album.
Erika Christensen movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Steven Soderbergh directed two of these films, Terry Ingram two. Three actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Fulvio Cecere's page
Matthew Carey's page
Terry IngramDirector, 2 films, 2014 to 2016
All films by Terry Ingram
Box office
What Erika Christensen's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$574 million
11 of the 19 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 19 films: 11 worldwide figure; 5 never in cinemas; 3 figure not found.
- 11Worldwide figure
- 5Never in cinemas
- 3Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$223M38.9% of the total
- 2$208M36.2% of the total
- 3$38M6.6% of the total
- 4$34M6.0% of the total
- 5$28M4.9% of the total
- 6$18M3.2% of the total
- 7$11M1.9% of the total
- 8$11M1.9% of the total
$2.3 millionfrom the other 3 films with a worldwide figure, 0% of the total
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