Erika Christensen is an American singer and actress whose filmography comprises roles in Traffic, Swing Vote, The Banger Sisters, The Perfect Score (based on the novel The Day I Swapped My Dad for a Brownie), The Tortured, and The Case for Christ, all of which earned her two Grammys as a featured performer. In addition, she has also spent time working with directors such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino. Born in Southern California, Erika has a reputation for her vocal chord strength, which has allowed her to develop a career as both a singer and actress, as well as a model.
As a child, Christensen was known for her distinctive childhood voice, which she attributes to being adopted. She grew up in foster homes during the Depression era, and her voice is said to be the result of her being repeatedly frightened by the adults that held her. At age seven, however, her voice began to change drastically, from being deep and hoarse to high and wailing, resulting in her being sent to live with her grandparents in Hawaii. She was constantly kept company by female relatives and learned to speak with an English accent after her parents moved to Los Angeles. By the time she was a teenager, her voice had developed into a high falsetto.
As an adult, Erika Christensen made a name for herself in the United States, playing characters in various popular television shows such as The X-Files, Californication, Two Fathers, Chuck and Weeds, All’s Good, and The New Moon. Apart from her work in the TV shows, her most celebrated and controversial acting career would begin in 1998, when she decided to try her hand at writing and producing a feature film instead of pursuing a career in movies. With a short stint in Hollywood, she was cast as a sexy young nurse in the pornographic film The Nanny Diaries. Despite earning an uncredited role in this film, it was one of her more memorable and successful ventures into acting and has since become one of her most well-known films.