Christina Ricci has received nominations for a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmys.
54 Facts About Christina Ricci
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Christina Ricci made her film debut at the age of nine in Mermaids, which was followed by a breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family and its sequel, Addams Family Values.
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Christina Ricci starred in 200 Cigarettes, Sleepy Hollow, Anything Else, Cursed, Penelope, and Speed Racer.
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On television, Christina Ricci appeared as Liza Bump in the final season of Ally McBeal, and had a guest role on Grey's Anatomy in 2006.
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Christina Ricci starred in the ABC series Pan Am, and produced and starred in the series' The Lizzie Borden Chronicles and Z: The Beginning of Everything.
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Christina Ricci began starring as Misty Quigley on the critically acclaimed Showtime series Yellowjackets in 2021, and later appeared in the Netflix series Wednesday.
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In 2010, Christina Ricci made her Broadway debut in Time Stands Still.
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Christina Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah and Ralph Ricci.
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Christina Ricci's mother worked as a Ford Agency model during the 1960s and later became a real estate agent.
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Christina Ricci's father had a varied career, including jobs as a gym teacher, lawyer, drug counsellor, and primal scream therapist.
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Christina Ricci later attended Professional Children's School in New York City.
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Christina Ricci has been vocal about her childhood in interviews, particularly her parents' divorce and turbulent relationship with her father.
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At the age of eight, Christina Ricci was discovered by a local theater critic when she starred in a school production of The Twelve Days of Christmas.
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Christina Ricci reprised the role for the 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values.
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Christina Ricci had a supporting role in Bastard Out of Carolina, which was the directorial debut of Anjelica Huston, whom Ricci had previously worked with on the Addams Family films.
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In 1997, Christina Ricci starred in the Disney remake of That Darn Cat, which was a moderate success at the box office.
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Christina Ricci had a small role in Terry Gilliam's offbeat road movie, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which marked her first collaboration with Johnny Depp.
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In 1999, Christina Ricci starred for a second time with Johnny Depp, in Tim Burton's gothic horror fantasy film Sleepy Hollow.
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The film was a commercial and critical success, and Christina Ricci received a Saturn Award for her portrayal of Katrina Van Tassel.
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On December 4,1999, Christina Ricci appeared as the guest host on Saturday Night Live, and performed parodies of Britney Spears and the Olsen twins.
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Christina Ricci starred in Prozac Nation, a drama based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling memoir.
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In 2003, Christina Ricci took on the roles of a young girl wandering through England on foot in the British horror film The Gathering, the former girlfriend of an up-and-coming movie star enjoying all the perks of celebrity in Adam Goldberg's I Love Your Work, and that of a manipulative, vain, indecisive, vindictive, and neurotic girlfriend in Woody Allen's Anything Else, in which she starred with Jason Biggs.
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Christina Ricci starred opposite Charlize Theron in the biographical crime drama, Monster, in 2003.
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Christina Ricci acknowledged Ricci during her acceptance speech, calling her the film's "unsung hero".
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Christina Ricci plays Selby as clueless, dim, in over her head, picking up cues from moment to moment, cobbling her behavior out of notions borrowed from bad movies, old songs, and barroom romances.
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Christina Ricci made a cameo appearance on Beck's 2005 album Guero, providing vocals for the track "Hell Yes".
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In 2005, Christina Ricci starred in the Wes Craven horror film Cursed, which gained notoriety for its troubled production history, and in 2006, she appeared as a paramedic in two episodes of Grey's Anatomy, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.
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Christina Ricci played the title character in Penelope, a fantasy romantic comedy based on the legends of pig-faced women.
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Christina Ricci lost several pounds in order to make her character look "unhealthy".
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Christina Ricci appeared alongside Jackson for the second time in another 2006 film, Home of the Brave, an ensemble drama following the lives of four soldiers in Iraq and their return to the United States.
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Christina Ricci appeared in a segment of the 2008 anthology film New York, I Love You, with Orlando Bloom.
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In 2009, Christina Ricci guest-starred in three episodes of TNT's Saving Grace, during its second season, as a detective who teams up with lead character Grace, played by Holly Hunter.
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Christina Ricci replaced Alicia Silverstone, who played Mandy during the play's initial run in 2009.
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Christina Ricci played a kindhearted waitress in Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, a comedy written by Adam Sandler.
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From 2011 to 2012, Christina Ricci appeared as stewardess Maggie Ryan on the ABC drama series Pan Am, which was set in the 1960s and based on the iconic airline of the same name.
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In 2012, Christina Ricci starred as a mistress alongside Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman in the little-seen period film Bel Ami, based on the 1885 French novel of the same name, and in 2013, she headlined the Australian film Around The Block, as an American drama teacher who befriends an Aboriginal boy during the 2004 Redfern riots.
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Christina Ricci subsequently provided voices for the animated films The Smurfs 2 and The Hero of Color City.
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In 2014, Christina Ricci played the title character in Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, a Lifetime film inspired by the true story of Borden, who was tried and acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother in 1892, and in 2015 she reprised the role for the eight-part television series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles.
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The latter received generally positive reviews; Jane Borden of Vanity Fair called it "playful, wicked brain candy", adding that "Christina Ricci was born to play [a] 19th-century ax murderer".
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Christina Ricci went on to receive a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries.
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In 2016, Christina Ricci played a woman who receives a life-changing revelation from the woman she thought was her sister in the independent drama Mothers and Daughters, as part of an ensemble cast, consisting of Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon, Selma Blair, Mira Sorvino, and Courteney Cox.
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Christina Ricci next starred in the 2017 Amazon Video miniseries Z: The Beginning of Everything, which presented a fictionalized version of the life of American socialite Zelda Fitzgerald.
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Christina Ricci began a series regular role on Showtime's Yellowjackets in 2021, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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On March 21,2022, it was announced that Christina Ricci was cast in Tim Burton's Wednesday as a series regular for Netflix.
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Christina Ricci plays Marilyn Thornhill, a botany teacher at Nevermore Academy.
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Christina Ricci is listed in several art publications as one of artist Mark Ryden's muses.
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Christina Ricci's image has appeared in several of his oil paintings and sketches.
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Christina Ricci has eight tattoos on her body: a lion on her right shoulder blade ; an Edward Gorey figure on the inside of her right wrist; a pair of praying hands on her left hip ; the name "Jack" on her right thigh for a deceased pet; a sparrow on her right breast; and a mermaid on her left ankle.
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Christina Ricci had the words "Move or Bleed" on the left side of her rib cage, as well as a bouquet of sweet peas on her lower back.
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Christina Ricci began dating comedian and actor Owen Benjamin in 2008 after they met on the set of the film All's Faire in Love.
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In February 2013, Christina Ricci announced her engagement to dolly grip James Heerdegen, whom she met while working on the series Pan Am in 2012.
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On July 2,2020, Christina Ricci filed for divorce after almost seven years of marriage.
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Heerdegen was not arrested, but Christina Ricci was granted an emergency protective order against Heerdegen the day before she filed for divorce.
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In January 2021, Christina Ricci was granted a domestic violence restraining order against Heerdegen.