“I cheated once on a spelling test. I didn't know how to spell period. I leaned over the desk and looked at someone else's paper. I was probably ten or something like that.”

American actress

Erika Christensen is an American actress known for film roles from the early 2000s onward. She was born in 1982, and became widely recognized for her performance in Traffic. Her film work includes Swimfan, The Banger Sisters, The Perfect Score, Flightplan, How to Rob a Bank, The Tortured, and The Case for Christ. For Traffic, she won the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance and shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with her co-stars.