Hayden Christensen is a young promising actor of Canadian descent. He became famous for his role in the epic film Star Wars.
Biography
Hayden Christensen was born in Canadian Vancouver in April 1981. His father, David Christensen, worked as a programmer. Mother Lee Nelson was a speechwriter. Hayden has Danish (paternal) and Italian-Swedish roots (maternal).
The profession of a film actor has always attracted a young man, but his father was categorically against such a career. Christensen was supported by his grandmother, whom he went on a summer vacation to New York. There, little Hayden was engaged in an acting studio. He also attended a drama class at his school in Toronto.
Hayden Christensen, whose filmography includes more than twenty works, began his career with shootings in advertising. Then he was only eight years old.
Personal life
On the set of the Teleport movie, Hayden met actress Rachel Bilson. Between young people began a love relationship. Since 2008, they began to officially call themselves a couple.
After some time, Hayden and Rachel decided to get married and even set a wedding date. However, in 2010, their separation was announced. For some time, Hayden did not start a serious relationship with anyone, but he was credited with novels with movie partners : Natalie Portman and Sienna Miller.
A couple of months after the breakup, Bilson and Christensen were again seen together. Since then, they are inseparable and live in a civil marriage. And in October 2014, Rachel gave birth to a daughter, Hayden, who was named Bryar Rose.
Movie work
It was Hayden Christensen who always dreamed about working in the cinema. The biography and filmography of the actor is inherent in the fact that he began acting in feature films at the age of fourteen. Initially, these were episodic roles (for example, a newspaper boy in the film "In the Maw of Madness") in films and TV shows of Canadian production.
In 1999, he played a more prominent role in S. Coppola's film “Virgin Suicides,” after which offers from the US film industry began to come.
The 2000 series “Above the Earth” gave the young actor faith in his talent, and he successfully played the role of the main character’s son in the film “Life Like Home”. For this work, Christensen was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Hayden Christensen, whose filmography is not so great, received world fame for playing the role of Anakin Skywalker in the second, third and sixth episodes of Star Wars. However, Hayden received only negative reviews from critics for his work. And he even won the Golden Raspberry Award for the worst role.
Hayden Christensen's acting career is mixed. Sometimes critics are supportive of the actor, in most cases they note his lack of talent.
Main roles
Hayden Christensen, whose filmography includes only a few main roles, is an actor of different roles.
He played his first major role in Star Wars. Anakin Skywalker is one of the most famous villains in the history of American cinema.
This was followed by work in the film "Scam Stephen Glass," perceived by critics on the positive side. The role of Stephen Glass, a crook reporter, was successfully performed by Hayden Christensen. The filmography, the main role in which is an infrequent phenomenon, was replenished with the convincing work of the young actor.
In 2007, he plays one of the main roles in the movie "Territory of the Virgin", based on the Boccaccio's Decameron.
This was followed by two main roles in the thriller Narcosis and the sci-fi film Teleport. In “Narcosis”, Jessica Alba became a partner of Hayden, but their on-screen union was recognized as unsuccessful and awarded with “Golden Raspberry”. In Teleport, Christensen played with his future wife, Rachel Bilson. Hayden Christensen also played in the horror film Disappearance on Seventh Street.
In 2015, the Russian-American film "American Robbery" was released, where Hayden played the main role along with Adrian Brody. Hayden Christensen, whose filmography is not replete with high-budget paintings, received a decent fee, but the film at the box office did not pay off at all. With a budget of ten million dollars, the fees amounted to just over two million.
Hayden Christensen, whose full filmography includes twenty-one paintings, regards his films as successful.
Interesting Facts
- Hayden has two sisters (Cailin and Hayes) and a brother (Tuv).
- Christensen loves pets. He has two parrots and a rabbit.
- As a child, he played hockey and tennis. He loves football and cheers for English Manchester United.
- He likes to read the works of Hermann Hesse.
- Hayden is allergic to bees.
- His height is 189 cm.
- The director of "Star Wars" chose Christensen for the role of four hundred applicants.
- To work in the third episode of Star Wars, the actor had to gain eleven kilograms.
- Loves Italian cuisine, especially pizza and lasagna.
- He loves rap and hates country style music.