The Big Picture: Hayden Christensen Career & Biographical Notes: Cast as Anakin Skywalker because Lucas felt he had great chemistry with Natalie Portman Grew up playing competitive tennis and hockey His first big break was in a Fox Family series called Higher Ground Fancies himself the thinking man's Jake Lloyd

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Hayden Christensen Trivia Quizzes
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Recent Movies:

Film	Date	Rating	Screens	Opening	Total	Box Office
Takers	8/27/10	N/A
Jumper	2/14/08	PG-13			73.33	Info
Awake	11/30/07	R			11.61	Info
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith	5/19/05	PG-13	3661	108.44	380.21	Info
Shattered Glass	10/31/03	PG-13	8	0.08	2.21	Info
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones	5/16/02	PG	3161	80.03	310.67	Info
Life as a House	10/26/01	R	1288	3.68	15.65	Info

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Awards:

2003
Shattered Glass

• Runner-Up: Best Actor - Drama, Golden Satellites

2001
Life as a House

• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globes
• Runner-Up: Best Supporting Actor, Screen Actors' Guild

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