“She’s an actress who once played Kevin Costner’s daughter. And on Monday, the 42-year-old was pictured stepping out in Los Angeles , distinctly showing her armpit hair. Can you guess who?”, — write: www.dailymail.co.uk
And on Monday, the 42-year-old star was pictured stepping out in Los Angeles, distinctly showing her armpit hair.
The mom-of-two — who, like fellow actor Tom Cruise, belongs to the Church of Scientology — ran errands in a casual look, sporting a sleeveless black top and ripped blue jeans.
The Seattle native — who is married to a cyclist — completed the look with white sneakers and a white crossbody bag.
She also sported a necklace and gold earrings, and wore her hair styled in a half-updo.
Can you guess who she is?
That’s right! It’s Erika Christensen.
She’s built a career with roles in films like Traffic (2000), Swimfan (2002), The Banger Sisters (2002), The Perfect Score (2004), Flightplan (2005) and more.
In Steven Soderbergh’s 2000 crime drama Traffic she famously portrayed cocaine user Caroline Wakefield.
She won the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance for the role.
In 2005, Christensen co-starred in The Upside of Anger as Andy Wolfmeyer, alongside Costner and Joan Allen.
She then took on a starring role in the short-lived ABC drama series, Six Degrees, in 2006.
From 2010 to 2015, Christensen starred as Julia Braverman-Graham in NBC’s family drama series Parenthood.
Since 2023, she’s been starring as Angie Polaski in ABC’s Will Trent.
She had guest star roles in television series including Frasier, The Practice, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and Touched by an Angel.
The star also made a guest appearance on the Fox sitcom That ’70s Show, which reunited her with her Traffic co-star Topher Grace.
Christensen’s family moved from Seattle to suburban Los Angeles when she was four.
Her parents, who became Scientologists in their twenties, raised her within the Church of Scientology.
Erika opened up about her association with Scientology on an episode of the Armchair Expert podcast in 2018.
‘I can justify things in all kinds of different ways, but basically, like, as a Scientologist. And I definitely cannot speak for every Scientologist about anything because everybody has their own beliefs and comes at it from even other religions and all kinds of stuff,’ she shared.
‘However, I don’t believe this is the first time I have lived on this planet and I basically think I’ve probably done absolutely everything before,’ she added.
When asked about the criticism the church has faced throughout the years, she said: ‘I don’t think that it comes from an actual place of, like, your critiques. I don’t think it comes from critical thinking.’
Christensen got engaged to cyclist Cole Maness in November 2014.
They married on September 5, 2015, in Palm Springs, California. The couple lives in Los Feliz, Los Angeles, and has two daughters, Shane and Polly.