Christina Hendricks is an award-winning actress and former model who currently leads the comedy-drama series, Good Girls. Hendricks has had success in both television and film with roles that range from an animated children’s toy in a blockbuster hit to a con artist in a cult-series. Her career spans over twenty years and during that time has become a well-renowned actress with accolades to show for it.
Here are the ten best roles, so far, of Christiana Hendricks’s career according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Kevin Hill, 83%
The 2004 drama series follows Kevin Hill, a high-power Manhattan lawyer, whose life is turned upside-down when a family member dies and he is left to care for his infant niece. Hendricks played the role of Nicolette Raye, a strong-powered woman who works with the lead. Raye is a character who has a complicated relationship with Kevin Hill, as one of the many women in Hill’s life.
The show explores the changes children and family brings while demonstrating what it is to have a full life. Despite the series having high reviews and a promising storyline, the show ended after the first season in 2005.
Firefly, 85%
This 2002 space-western TV series also didn’t make it past the first season but has become a cult favorite, which lead to the 2005 feature film Serenity. The show follows the lives of a group of people living in a futuristic society among the stars where a civil-war raged and they now survive on the fringe of civilization. The renegade crew live together on the spaceship, “Serenity” and make their living as outlaws.
Hendricks portrays Saffron, a con-woman whose real identity remains a mystery to all the people she meets. Saffron is a character of questionable morals who enters the lives of the crew members under different aliases and pretenses. Throughout the show, Saffron utilizes her skills to survive in the futuristic, chaotic universe.
From Up On Poppy Hill, 86%
This 2011 animated drama takes place in 1963 Japan when the country enters a period of modernization. The people are preparing for the upcoming Olympics while dealing with the painful memories of the scarring events from the second World War.
The film was successful around the world, combining mature subject matters, the spirit of teen drama, and the magic of the anime genre.
Angel, 88%
Before she was a household name, Christina Hendricks had a small part as the Bar Maid in the episode “The Prodigal” of Angel. The show aired for five seasons from 1999 to 2004 and started as a spin-off from the hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The show surrounds Angel’s new life in Los Angeles after he left his true-love but what he discovers that his fresh start will be harder to find than he thought. Along the way, viewers get to see more about his mysterious past including the fifteenth episode of the first season, which is when Hendricks’s part aired.
American Woman, 89%
American Woman is a 2018 drama film about a woman named Debra in a small blue-collar town in Pennsylvania. Debra’s teenage daughter goes missing and she searches for answers while caring for her infant grandson. The film explores the strange mystery of the missing daughter and what a mother would do in that kind of situation.
Hendricks portrays Debra’s friend Katherine who is by her side through the testing trials that face them in their small-town drama.
Drive, 92%
This 2011 crime-drama is an ultra-violent thriller that explores the dueling life of those involved in the criminal world. The film follows the life of a Hollywood stuntman, Driver, who moonlights as a criminal getaway driver.
Driver’s life becomes complicated when he gets involved in the lives of his neighbor and her son. He is thrown into a dangerous situation between his neighbor and her recently released-from-prison husband; who enlists him into a million-dollar heist and all the dangers that come with that.
Mad Men, 94%
As one of perhaps the most successful television series ever, Mad Men, is a drama series, which first aired in 2007 and ended in 2015 after seven seasons. The award-winning series takes place in 1960s New York and follows the conflicting life of Don Draper as he tries to balance his high-pressure job as a top advertising executive at a Madison Avenue firm and his home life as a father and husband.
Christina Hendricks, in perhaps her most recognizable role, portrayed Joan Holloway an office manager at the advertising firm. Holloway is a commanding character who works in the high-pressure, male-dominated world by utilizing her particular skill set.
Hap & Leonard, 94%
This mystery series, that began in 2016 and is in its third season, is based on Joe R. Lansdale’s literary series by the same name. The series follows Leonard Pine and Hap Collins, two amateur investigators with very different backgrounds who team up for the adventure and hope of finding sunken treasure in the Deep South.
Hendricks portrays Hap Collins’s ex-wife, Trudy, who brings the possibility of finding the treasure to Collins and Pine. The wild adventures of these unlikely pairings have created a dynamic series with rave-reviews.
Toy Story 4, 97%
The 2019 film is the fourth installment of the successful film saga which follows the adventures of the toys Woody, Buzz, and all their friends. As the final adventure of the wildly popular films, the gang goes to save their child’s new creation and get sidetracked. The team goes on one last wild adventure where old friends come back and new faces are introduced.
In her role as Gabby Gabby, Christina Hendricks takes on the part as the main antagonist of the film who is after Woody so she can find love. Toy Story 4 finds all the toys their place and a conclusion that brings the journey to an end.
Egg, 100%
This 2018 comedy was a huge hit with critics, giving it a perfect score. The film approaches the subject of motherhood and everything women go through when the topic is approached. The film follows Tina and her surrogate as she reunites with an old frenemy.
Christina Hendricks takes on the role of the very pregnant rival of the main protagonist. Hilarity ensues as the women face their ridiculous and sometimes challenging shortcomings. The film addresses the personal, professional, emotional, and social issues that come with motherhood.
