"We all know Marilyn just wants to be a Joan..."
Christina Rene Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actor known to geeks and tropers mostly for her two appearances on Firefly as Saffron. Since then, however, she's got considerably more mainstream exposure for her role in Mad Men as Sexy Secretary Joan Holloway. She also appeared in Company opposite Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, and Patti Lupone, and in Drive (2011), directed by Nicholas Winding Refn, with Ryan Gosling. By 2018, she's the protagonist of Good Girls, playing a soccer mom turned criminal when her family goes broke.
Works on TV Tropes:
- Undressed (1999) as Rhiannon
- Angel, episode "The Prodigal" (2000) as barmaid
- ER (2002) as Joyce Westlake
- Firefly (2002-2003) as Saffron
- Tru Calling (2004) as Alyssa
- Without a Trace (2006) as Rachel Gibson
- Las Vegas (2006) as Connie
- Life (2007-2008) as Olivia
- Mad Men (2007-2015) as Joan P. Harris, née Holloway
- Body of Proof (2011) as Jessica / Karen Archer
- All-Star Superman (2011) as Lois Lane / Superwoman
- Drive (2011) (2011) as Blanche
- American Dad! (2011) as Naydern (voice)
- From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) as Saori Makimura (voice, English dub)
- Need for Speed: The Run (2011) as Sam Harper (voice)
- Struck By Lightning (2012) as April
- The Pirate Fairy (2014) as Zarina (voice)
- Lost River (2014) as Billy
- Rick and Morty, episode "Auto Erotic Assimilation" (2015) as Unity (voice)
- Zoolander 2 (2016) as Seductress
- Hap and Leonard (2016) as Trudy Fawst
- The Neon Demon (2016) as Roberta Hoffmann
- Another Period (2016) as Celine a.k.a. Chair
- Bad Santa 2 (2016) as Diane Hastings
- Fist Fight (2017) as Ms. Monet
- Crooked House (2017) as Brenda Leonides
- Candy Jar (2018) as Amy Skinner
- Robot Chicken (2018) as CVS cashier / Snake / Guess Who player
- The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018) as Cindy
- Good Girls (2018-) as Elizabeth "Beth" Boland
- Toy Story 4 (2019) as Gabby Gabby (voice)
- SCOOB! (2020) as Officer Jaffe (voice)
