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.