Hayden Christensen

Canadian actor Hayden Christensen was brought to the top of fame by the second and third parts of the space opera "Star Wars". Who knows what the fate of the artist would have been if the director and screenwriter of the saga George Lucas had not seen his character Anakin Skywalker in the little-known boy from Vancouver.

Hayden Christensen was born in April 1981 in Vancouver, but his childhood years were spent in the heart of Ontario - Toronto. The parents of the future star of the Star Wars project had no direct relation to the world of cinema: Dane David Christensen and Italian-Swedish Eli Nelson owned a telecommunications company. Hayden's father is a programmer by education, his mother is a speechwriter.

Hayden Christensen calls childhood and adolescence happy, because they passed in a large family, where parents were keenly interested in the life of four children: the sons of Tove and Hayden and the daughters of Hayes and Keilen.

Christensen developed an interest in television and acting as a child. At the age of 8, the boy advertised a cough medicine, and at 12 received an invitation to a cameo role in the German-Canadian soap opera Family Passion. In addition to filming, Hayden Christensen was interested in sports: in hockey, the boy reached professional heights, and in tennis he showed a good amateur level.

The predominance of cinema came during a vacation in Long Island, when Hayden was visiting his grandmother. Christensen became interested in acting, attending an acting studio in New York. After returning home, the teenager enrolled in a school drama studio.

Hayden's father did not like his son's desire to become an actor; he exhorted the boy for a long time to abandon this idea: David Christensen understood how difficult it was to break through to the top of the movie "Olympus". But the guy persisted. From 1993 to 2000, Hayden Christensen starred in six TV series, where he was entrusted with supporting roles. These works did not bring the young artist either fame or recognition, but he believed that he would certainly catch luck.

A new round in Hayden Christensen's cinematic biography began in 2000, after the release of the melodrama "The Virgin Suicides" directed by Sofia Coppola. The film received a warm welcome from youth audiences and film critics. The Canadian artist was noticed. Christensen is fortunate enough to work with Hollywood stars Danny DeVito, Kirsten Dunst and James Woods.

In the same year, the young actor starred in the scandalous serial drama "Above the Earth", where he played a teenager suffering from the harassment of his stepmother. Having escaped sexual violence, Hayden's hero becomes a drug addict and ends up in a boarding school, where difficult teenagers are re-educated.

The main role in the sensational melodrama brought fame to the Canadian. In the same 2000, Hayden Christensen appeared in an episode of the film "Trapped in the Purple Mist" with his friend and peer Jonathan Jackson.

Hayden Christensen's career is developing rapidly: in 2001, the 20-year-old artist was invited to star in the American drama Life Like Home. Hayden's hero is a teenager Sam Monroe, who has a difficult relationship with his father, who left him with his mother. Having learned about an incurable disease, the man returns to his family, but regaining the trust of the matured Sam is not an easy task.

To play the teenager, Hayden Christensen went on a grueling diet for a month. He ate salad and drank water. As a result, I lost 11 kilograms and - visually - 5-6 years. In one of the sharp psychological scenes, the actor broke his right arm. But the difficult shooting brought Christensen the expected success: for the main role in the melodrama, the artist was nominated for prestigious awards - the Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild of the United States, as well as awarded the National Council of American Film Critics.

The tape grossed $ 23 million worldwide. It is noteworthy that the premiere of the project in America took place on the day of the terrorist act - September 11, 2001.

In 2003, Hayden Christensen starred in auteur cinema. In the drama by Billy Ray "The Stephen Glass Affair", the Canadian got the main role. He played the sociopathic journalist Stephen Glass, who worked for a respectable magazine and investigated high-profile events in the United States. After Stephen's fraud was revealed, the publication's rating dropped. The picture was filmed on real material from the 1990s.

Hayden Christensen won the Chopard prize for Best Young Actor and was nominated for the Saturn and Golden Satellite awards. Critics and viewers were scattered in praise of the film and the artist, but for unknown reasons the project did not participate in the nominations for the main Hollywood award - Oscar.

It is noteworthy that the co-producer of the project was Hayden Christensen's older brother, Tove. Two years earlier, the brothers established the production company Forest Park Pictures.

The performance of the Canadian artist was not always successful. In 2007, the mystical thriller Narcosis was released on wide screens, in which Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba played the main characters. Film critics considered the game too primitive and nominated two stars for the Golden Raspberry anti-award.

In 2008, the sci-fi film Teleport was released. Key characters went to Hayden Christensen and Jamie Bell. In Russia, the premiere of a fascinating action movie took place, as in the United States, in February 2008. Three days of filming took place in the Colosseum, which only a few directors managed to do. Christensen's work in this film was marred by two accidents, and the film itself received unfavorable reviews from critics.

In 2009, Hayden Christensen starred in one of the 11 short stories of the almanac "New York, I Love You" with Andy Garcia and Rachel Bilson, and in 2013 appeared in the action movie "American Robbery." In Russia, the action-packed film was first shown in the summer of 2015. Christensen played the main characters in a duet with Adrian Brody.

Having starred in the Star Wars saga, Hayden Christensen got a taste of worldwide popularity. The choice of director George Lucas fell on a little-known Canadian in 2000. The widest (400 applicants) casting, in which Leonardo DiCaprio auditioned for the role of Anakin Skywalker, did not satisfy Lucas until he saw Christensen. Critics were surprised at the director's choice, calling Hayden's artistry "raw." But it was this "dampness" that convinced and bribed Lucas.

In addition, the director said that he saw between Hayden Christensen and Natalie Portman the desired "alchemy", which will convince the audience of the veracity of the novel between the heroes of the saga. Later, the audience and the Hollywood crowd began to talk that the romance between the stars is not only in the movies.

After the release of the second episode of Star Wars, called Attack of the Clones, People magazine ranked the Canadian in the TOP 50 most beautiful people in the world. The audience found Hayden Christensen's appearance impeccable. With a height of 1.83 meters, he weighed 70 kilograms.

The third part of the movie saga called "Revenge of the Sith" puzzled the audience: Christensen's character changed from positive to negative. Film critics disagreed about the actor's skill. For his work in the third part of the tape, Hayden received the Young Hollywood Award and the Golden Raspberry Anti-Prize. Christensen was nominated for the prestigious Saturn award for his participation in Revenge of the Sith and Attack of the Clones.

The relationship with a colleague on the Teleport project, actress Rachel Bilson, was uneven for the Canadian star: in the summer of 2010, the artists parted, but in the winter of the same year they made up.

In the spring of 2014, fans of the star learned that Hayden and Rachel were looking forward to a happy event. In October 2015, the couple had a daughter, Brier Rose Christensen. The girl's name in translation sounds like "Shipovnichek". This is how the fairies called Princess Aurora in the film-tale "The Sleeping Beauty".

Hayden Christensen adores her daughter and claims that she has many similarities with the heroine from Sleeping Beauty.

Fans of the actor have repeatedly noticed Hayden's touching habit: when he focuses on work, sticks out the tip of his tongue. This feature of Christensen can be traced back to childhood. And the star is afraid of bees, to which he is allergic.

Parents of little Brier Rose protect the girl from the pesky attention of the paparazzi. In May 2016, photographers managed to capture Christensen's daughter as the couple gape at a farmers' market in Los Angeles.

In the fall of 2017, a new film will be released with the participation of Hayden Christensen. This is Steven S. Miller's action thriller First Murder. In addition to the Canadian, Bruce Willis and Shea Buckner starred in it.

The 39,000-strong army of subscribers will find out about the actor's personal life and his work on Hayden Christensen's Instagram page.

1999 - "The Virgin Suicides" 2000 - "Above the Earth" 2001 - "Life is Like Home" 2002 - "Star Wars. Episode II: Attack of the Clones 2003 - The Stephen Glass Scam 2005 - Star Wars. Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 2007 - Narcosis 2007 - Virgin Territory 2008 - Teleport 2009 - New York, I Love You! 2015 - "American Robbery" 2017 - "First Murder"

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2021

Hayden Christensen 's revenue is $1.9M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Hayden Christensen and could vary in the range between $683K - $1.4M.

Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2020

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2019

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2018

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2017

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2016

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Hayden Christensen Net Worth 2015

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