It's enough to drive a man to drink! Christina Hendricks is every inch the buxom barmaid in new smouldering photo

By Eleanor Gower

Last updated at 8:15 PM on 24th October 2011

In Mad Men she is famous for playing no-nonsense office manager Joan Holloway in a series of striking 1960s style outfits.

But Christina Hendricks is channelling a very different character in the latest issue of Men's Health magazine.

A new photograph shows the 36-year-old actress poses in a Los Angeles bar with a glass of single malt whiskey in her hand wearing a clinging pin striped business suit.

Last orders: Christina Hendricks poses in a grey pinstripe dress with a glass of whiskey at a bar in the new issue of Men's Health magazine

Happy together: Christina has been married to actor Geoffrey Arend for two years

A pair of heels and tumbling red hair over her shoulders completes the look.

The star also discusses her love for her favourite classic bar The Varnish, not far from where the TV drama is filmed in Downtown Los Angeles.

'Sexy, sophisticated, quiet enough for intimate conversation,' she tells the magazine, adding that her favourite tipple is Johnnie Walker Black.

'I like mine simple, on the rocks. It's incredibly smooth on the tongue. A touch of caramel flavour. It warms everything inside,' she says.

And it was her husband Geoffrey Arend who got her interested in whiskey.

'I always thought it was sexy when he ordered scotch and I'd take little sips of his drink,' she says.

However, enjoying a tipple now and then wasn't always a part of Christina's life.