To Begin Whit His Biography

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Hayden Christensen was born on Sunday, April 19, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he is the son of Alie and David Christensen, a computer programmer and communications executive.Christensen has three brothers, he attended E.J. Sand Public School, Baythorn Public School and Unionville High School in Unionville, Ontario, Canada. Hayden was an athlete in high school, playinghockey competitively and tennis.
He spent summers in Long Island with his maternal grandmother, Rose Schwartz, and attended the Actors Studio in New York. He was "discovered" when his older sisterHejsa, a former trampoline champion, was shopping around for an agent after he landed a role in a Pringles commercial.

(Vane)According to his years of performing 1993– (and to)2005: Christensen's firstacting role was on the television series Family Passions, which aired on Canadian television in September 1993, when he was 12. The following year he acquired a minor role in John Carpenter's In theMouth of Madness. From 1995 through 1999, he appeared in several movies and television shows, including Harrison Bergeron, Forever Knight, Goosebumps, The Virgin Suicides, and Are You Afraid of theDark?. He acquired wider notice while starring in Fox's Family Network television series Higher Ground in 2000, portraying a teen who was sexually molested by his stepmother, and then turned to drugs inhis despair.

While Christensen's critically acclaimed portrayal of a misunderstood teenager in Life as a House (2001) earned him Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations as well as the National Boardof Review's award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year.
For his part in the movie, Christensen lost 25 pounds through a special diet. He eventually gained the weight back during the filming forStar Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. In 2002, Christensen made his London theater debut co-starring with Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin in This Is Our Youth.

He went on to receive good...