Christina Ricci

Christina Ricciová is an American actress who came to the attention of the audience thanks to the role of Wednesday, with an eternally morbid expression from the film The Adams Family.

Christina Ricci's Childhood

Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of a model and a lawyer. When she was eight, they moved to New York, where she began appearing in television commercials.

Christina Ricci's career

At the age of ten, she made her debut in the film Mermaids (1990) in the role of the youngest daughter Cher, the film also featured actress Winona Ryder.

After her first performance, she gained the attention of film workers, thanks to which she appeared a year later in the morbid comedy The Adams Family, in the role of Wednesday Adams alongside actors such as Anjelica Huston and RaĂşl Julia.

In 1993, she took part in the filming of the second part of the successful black comedy The Adams Family 2 and for two years in the film Casper (1995), which made her a star of children's film roles. Although critics did not consider her a good actress, the audience had the opposite opinion.

From children's roles, she gradually moved to the roles of teenage girls, for example, in the film All My Men (1998) she played the sixteen-year-old Dudee, who is rather a loose wanderer who knows more about life than she should. She steals urns with ashes from cemeteries, lives with her half-brother Bill, and sleeps with every guy she meets. For her portrayal of Dude, Ricci was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

In the not very successful film 200 Cigarettes (1999), she starred with Kate Hudson. In the 18th-century horror film Sleepy Hole, where a series of murders are attributed to the Headless Horseman, Ricci played the daughter of a local rich man alongside actor Johnny Depp.

She appeared with actress Kim Basinger in the thriller Touch of Evil (2000), the same year she played a young Jewish woman who fled Germany to Paris during World War II in The Man Who Cried. She also played in a few episodes in the series Ally McBeal.

In 2003, she was cast in the film Monster, where she appeared alongside Charlize Theron, which described the life of serial killer Aileen Wuornos. The film was nominated for an Oscar.

Director Wes Craven cast her in the film Curse in 2005, where she played the main role, but the film did not attract much attention and was labeled as a flop.

In 2006, she appeared in the film Penelope, where she played the main character of the same name, who is affected by a curse and has a pig's snout instead of a nose. In the film, she appeared alongside actors such as Catherine O'Hara and Reese Witherspoon. In the same year, she also appeared in the film In Chains or The Land of the Damned.

She appeared alongside Liam Neeson in the 2009 film Life After Life, playing a dead Anna who kills herself in a car with her lover, played by Justin Long.

She also introduced herself as a flight attendant in the TV series Pan Am as Maggie Ryan, a year later (2012) she portrayed Clotilde de Marelle in the film Darling, where she charmed alongside actress Uma Thurman and actor Robert Pattison.

In 2014, she portrayed Lizzie Borden in the film Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, which is set in the 18th century and Lizzie is the only suspect in her parents' murder. In 2016, Ricci appeared alongside Susan Sarandon and Sharon Stone in Monthers and Daughters. She co-starred with John Cusack in the 2018 psychological thriller Distorted. The film received mixed reviews, but critics agreed that Ricci's performance was the film's greatest asset.

She appeared in the short film Abracashues, opposite actress Dianna Agron in 2020. In the same year, she also appeared in Percy, Faraway Eyes and Ten Things We Must Do Before We Break Up.

The private life of Christina Ricci

In her free time, she likes to read and especially poems. Among the singers, he recognizes Marilyn Manson. In 2013, she married James Heerdegen, with whom she has a son, Freddie, born in 2014. On July 2, 2020, Ricci filed for divorce after nearly seven years of marriage. In April 2021, their son Freddie was entrusted to Ricci's care.

In August 2021, Ricci announced that she was pregnant with her boyfriend, hairdresser Mark Hampton. Their child, named Cleo, was born in December 2021.

In the past, she overcame anorexia and suffered from anxiety. The artist Mark Ryden painted her several times in his oil paintings and sketches.

Ricci is a spokesperson for the National Organization for Rape, Abuse and Incest (RAINN).