Hayden Christensen Biography

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his step-mom, in the short lived Canadian television drama series, "Higher Ground," for which he was well-praised by the entertainment critics. Thanks to his conspicuous performance in the TV project that George Lucas, the reputable director of the Star Wars franchise, then chose the then-rather-unknown actor to join the cast of "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" (2002), and even more trusted him to depict the most wanted role of Anakin Skywalker, the pivotal character in the original and prequel Star Wars trilogies, creating great buzz in the movie industry and rocketed his name to fame. In between times, Christensen portrayed another well-received character in "Life as a House" (2001), starring alongside his idol Kevin Kline. Playing Sam Monroe, a troubled and misunderstood teenager who helped his sick father to rebuild a house, scored him a 2001 National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year as well put him in various nominations, naming some were the 2002 Screen Actors Guild Award-Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and the 2002 Golden Globe Award-Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture. With the release of "Star Wars ...

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Episode II" in the year of 2002, this down-to-earth leading man received another worthy praises as well as harsh criticism, mainly for being too soft and whinny on several occasions leading people to think that he just didn't fit to the role of Anakin Skywalker. He was being nominated for many notable awards though, including the 2003 Saturn Award-Best Performance by a Younger Actor, yet walked away with the 2003 Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor.

Still, getting a Razzie Award did not stop Christensen on landing and successfully depicting illustrious characters. In 2003, he scored another leading character in the based-on-true-story drama movie "Shattered Glass", portraying Stephen Glass, a journalist for 'The New Republic', an opinion-based political magazine, who was caught of making up half of his articles. Once again, he gathered good reviews and award nominations. Following that, he went back to shoot "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," the last movie of the Star Wars saga that became the highest grossing movie of 2005 in United States, earning over 850 million US dollars world wide. Later when asked about his role in "Star Wars Episode III," he excitedly said, "I was looking forward to ...