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Who is Christina Ricci? Biography |
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Christina Ricci was born February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica,
California, to parents Ralph and Sarah Ricci. After her parents
decided to relocate to Montclair, New Jersey, Christina Ricci --
otherwise known as the family clown -- spent much of her youth
on America's East Coast. The only sign of acting talent Christina Ricci showed at a young age was her ability to entertain her siblings (Rafael and Dante). Once she was cast in an elementary school pageant, a movie critic who was in the audience encouraged her parents to get her an agent. christina ricci makes a splash in mermaids In 1990, Christina Ricci was cast in Mermaids as Cher's daughter and Winona Ryder's sister -- quite an accomplishment for her acting debut. Her led her to become friends with Cher and Johnny Depp (Winona Ryder's guy at the time), who has since shared the screen with Christina Ricci several times. After a role in 1991's The Hard Way, Christina Ricci was cast in what would become her most defining role to date -- as morbid and dark Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family. Ironically, not long after Addams Family Values was released in 1993, Christina Ricci's parents, a former primal scream therapist and lawyer, and a nursery school teacher and real estate agent, filed for divorce. At this point, bored with regular school and looking for more interesting things to keep her busy, Christina Ricci appeared in The Cemetery Club (1993) and Now and Then (1995), and she starred in Casper (1995). She continued her education by studying with a tutor and going to the Professional Children's School with Macaulay Culkin. While Macaulay Culkin headed toward a life of tabloids, Christina Ricci was destined for more. In 1997, she appeared in The Last of the High Kings and starred in That Darn Cat, but it was her role in The Ice Storm alongside Katie Holmes that transformed her from child performer to serious actress. christina ricci goes indie in 200 cigarettes With roles in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) with Johnny Depp and the twisted comedy The Opposite of (1998), her core audience and childhood fans were sure to change drastically, especially due to the latter film in which she played a deviant adolescent who tries to seduce her uncle's boyfriend. Treading along the indie circuit, Christina Ricci joined a star-studded cast consisting of Courtney Love, Kate Hudson and Ben Affleck in 200 Cigarettes (1999), and teamed up with Johnny Depp once more to star in the impressive Sleepy Hollow (1999). She costarred with Kim Basinger for the dud Bless the Child (2000), and starred in the smaller (but again, star-filled) The Man Who Cried (2000) and in Prozac Nation (2001), in which she appears nu. She may have lost out to fellow child actor Kirsten Dunst for parts in Little Women (1994) and Interview with the Vampire (1994), and Dominique Swain in Lolita (1997), but Christina Ricci has quite an impressive award roster to her name. Just for her work in The Opposite of , Christina Ricci garnered a YoungStar Award for Young Actress in a Comedy Film, a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. christina ricci starts a production company Shunning Hollywood life and preferring to live in New York, Christina Ricci proved that she had the to live up to her status as an independent actress. Keeping busy behind the camera as well, she created her own production company called Blaspheme Films, which was responsible for Prozac Nation and Pumpkin (2002). In 2005, Christina Ricci starred in Cursed, and in 2006, she acted in Penelope and Home of the Brave, starring Jessica Biel. In 2007, Christina Ricci played the difficult role of an abused woman in Black Snake Moan alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake. She also presented an award at the Grammys alongside her costar Samuel L. Jackson. christina ricci in speed racer In 2008, Christina Ricci appeared in the comedy-fantasy flick Penelope. She also worked on the live-action film adaptation of the 1960s' Japanese animated series Speed Racer. |
Christina Ricci Biography - Bio |
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One of the most celebrated actresses of her generation, as well
as one of the few child stars to make a successful transition to
adult roles, Christina Ricci has been impressing audiences and
critics with her unnervingly accurate performances since
debuting in 1990's Mermaids. The daughter of a lawyer and a former Ford model and the youngest of four children, Ricci was born in Santa Monica, CA, on February 12, 1980. Following her family's move to New York when she was eight, Christina got her start acting in commercials. Her big screen debut came shortly after, when director Richard Benjamin cast her as Cher's younger daughter in Mermaids. Although much attention went to Winona Ryder, who played Ricci's older sister, the young actress made enough of an impression to land more work: The following year, she starred as the morbidly precocious Wednesday Addams in the hit film adaptation of The Addams Family. The role would help to establish Ricci as an actress known for playing dark, unconventional characters; she went on to play Wednesday again in the film's 1993 sequel Addams Family Values. Following a series of films both good and bad, including Now and Then, in which she played the young Rosie O'Donnell, and the critically panned but commercially successful Casper, she starred as the troubled, ually precocious Wendy Hood in Ang Lee's widely praised The Ice Storm. The actress handled the part with uncanny , leading many observers to conclude that she was truly beginning to come into her own. This assessment was solidified with Ricci's subsequent roles in films like Buffalo '66 (in which she played Vincent Gallo's unwitting abductee-turned-girlfriend), John Waters' Pecker, and Don Roos' The Opposite of , the last of which cast her as Dedee, a delightfully loathsome girl who wreaks tabloid-style havoc on everyone she encounters, whether they be dead or alive. For her performance as Dedee, Ricci was nominated for a Golden Globe and attained the unofficial title of the Sundance Film Festival's 1998 "It" Girl. Now riding high as an indie teen queen, Ricci went on in 1999 to headline the much-anticipated but ultimately disappointing 200 Cigarettes; the same year, she could be seen in Desert Blue, which featured 200 Cigarettes co-stars Casey Affleck and Kate Hudson, and Sleepy Hollow, in which she played Gothic princess Katrina Van Tassel opposite Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane in Tim Burton's adaptation of Washington Irving's ghostly tale. In 2000, Ricci starred in Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried, in which she played a young Jewish woman who flees from Germany to Paris during World War II, and Bless the Child, a supernatural thriller that also starred Kim Basinger and Rufus Sewell. Though rumors of a stateside release date for Ricci's 2001 drama Prozac Nation continued to linger, Christina would move on to such unconventional efforts as the offbeat romantic comedy Pumpkin, which found her as a popular sorority girl who risks becoming a social outcast after falling for a mentally disabled young athlete whom she has volunteered to help train. Though subsequent efforts as Miranda and The Gathering (both 2002) fell beneath the radar at the box office, Christina was a hit with Ally McBeal fans when she appeared in a recurring role in the Fox show that same year. Audiences who caught Woody Allen's 2003 comedy Anything Else found her as charming as ever. At festivals that year, Ricci could be seen in supporting roles in actor Adam Goldberg's dark drama I Love Your Work, as well as in director Patty Jenkins' Aileen Wuornos biopic Monster. ~ Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide |
