Christina Hendricks, the flame-haired star who has bewitched audiences across the globe in hit US television show Mad Men, has revealed she has Birmingham roots.
The award-winning actress has family ties to the UK's second city as her dad Richard Hendricks was born and bred in Birmingham.
After leaving England to start a new life in the United States in the 1960s, Richard served in the American Army and later worked for the US Forest Service.
He then met and married psychologist Jackie and had two children, Christina and her brother Aaron.
Christina, who will return to our screens next month in the fifth season of Mad Men, revealed her dad made sure she was raised on good honest British grub.
The 36-year-old said: “My mum was a therapist and my dad was in the army, although he’s British.
“He was born in Birmingham and his mother is from England but he was naturalised in the 60s to be in the American army.
“My dad didn’t have a British accent but I did grow up with a few food things that I didn’t realise [were British].
“I mean, I just thought they were things my dad liked. He loves marmalade, that was a big thing, and we had Yorkshire pudding at holidays.”
Christina shot to stardom after landing the part of sultry secretary Joan Holloway in Mad Men, which goes behind the scenes of a top Manhattan advertising agency in the 1960s.
The role has earned her clutch of acting awards, including an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress last September, as well as seeing her regularly topping polls of the world’s most beautiful women.
The former model also spent time living in London during the late 1990s.
Christina shot to stardom after landing the part of sultry secretary Joan Holloway in Mad Men, the drama series which goes behind the scenes of a top Manhattan advertising agency in the 1960s.
The role has earned her clutch of acting awards, including an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress last September, as well as seeing her regularly topping polls of the world’s most beautiful women.
The former model, who wed fellow thespian Geoffrey Arend two years ago, also spent time living in London during the late 1990s.
Christina revealed how time in England gave her an insight into her dad’s love of British cuisine.
She said: “It wasn’t until I moved to England that those things started to make sense.
“I’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s why he puts butter on a tuna fish sandwich!’ Butter in a sandwich! Why would you do that?
