Christina Ricci as Wednesday
Date of birth
12 February 1980,
Santa Monica, California, USA
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Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born in 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of 4 children of a lawyer father and realtor mother. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in Mermaids (1990) in which she worked with Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in Ice Storm, The (1997) in which she plays a nymphet who skillfully seduces 2 brothers. Candid and controversial, as well as a highly skilled actress, Christina was much in demand by film makers in the late 1990s. In 1999, at the age of 19, she directed and worked on the screenplay for the movie Asylum (1996). A compulsive talker and smoker who seems to have a new and refreshing view on every subject, the buxom Christina is becoming a top box office draw and seems to be destined for super-stardom in the new century.
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Trivia
Is on the national board of VOX-Voices for Planned Parenthood, which works to promote the mission of Planned Parenthood to young adults. She will also be appearing in national ads for Emergency Contraception.
Her father, before becoming a lawyer, was a psychiatrist who specialized in shrieking therapy. While growing up, Christina could hear the therapies through the vents in her room, and would act them out in front her mother.
On November 4 1999, she appeared on "Saturday Night Live" as the guest host. During one of her skits, she accidentally punched actress Ana Gasteyer in the face. The skit was a parody of the "Sally" show, in which she played a 13-year-old runaway who sleeps with dogs, and required her to fake-punch Sally (Gasteyer), but accidentally hit her for real. While she initially reacted by putting her hands over her mouth in surprise, she maintained her professionalism and quickly fell back into character.
Drives a Porsche Boxster.
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Personal quotes
"I can be young and cute when I want to be, and I can be really mature when I want to be. It's kind of weird, like I'm the incredible changing girl, which is good because I can relate to adults and to people my age." (1995) "There are two sides of me, One is the professional side. When I'm working, I'm not a kid - and can't be. Otherwise no one would take me seriously. When I'm not working, I think I'm a normal 15-year-old.
"If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, It'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead."
"I'm very shy. I can't even act that well when the camera's not on. I get really embarassed."
About Marilyn Manson's band: "I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting."
"For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room. I still can't sit in a restaurant or someplace where I can catch my reflection. I get so paranoid."
"I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause."
"I'm not perfect-looking and I don't say the right things, I'm a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older."
"My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic."
"I think the main reason a lot of child stars don't make it is that it's hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth. I guess I was just lucky that, when I was little, nobody thought I was that cute."
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Links:
Gathering, The (2002)
Miranda (2002) .... Miranda
Pumpkin (2002) .... Carolyn McDuffy
Laramie Project, The (2002) .... Romaine Patterson
2001 MTV Movie Awards (2001) (TV) .... Presenter
Adrenalynn (2001) .... Adrenalynn
Moby: Play - The DVD (2001) (V) (uncredited) .... Angel
Prozac Nation (2001) .... Elizabeth Wurtzel
All Over the Guy (2001) .... Rayna, Eli's Sister
Sleepy Hollow: Behind the Legend (2000) (V) .... Herself/Katrina Anne Van Tassel
Man Who Cried, The (2000) .... Suzie
... aka The man who cried - Les larmes d'un homme (2001) (France)
Bless the Child (2000) .... Cherry
... aka Prophezeiung, Die (2000) (Germany)
Sleepy Hollow (1999) .... Katrina Anne Van Tassel
No Vacancy (1999) .... Lillian
200 Cigarettes (1999) .... Val
Pecker (1998) .... Shelley
Souvenir (1998) (voice)
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) .... Teenage Hooker
... aka Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
... aka I Awoke Early the Day I Died (1999) (USA)
Desert Blue (1998) .... Ely Jackson
Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) .... Gwendy Doll
Opposite of Sex, The (1998) .... Dedee Truitt/Narrator
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .... Lucy
Buffalo '66 (1998) .... Layla, aka Wendy Balsam
Little Red Riding Hood (1997) .... Little Red Riding Hood
Ice Storm, The (1997) .... Wendy 'Charles' Hood
That Darn Cat (1997) .... Patti Randall
Last of the High Kings, The (1996) .... Erin
... aka Summer Fling (1998) (USA: video title)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) .... Dee Dee
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995) .... Beth Easton
Now and Then (1995) .... Young Roberta Martin
Casper (1995) .... Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey
Addams Family Values (1993) .... Wednesday Addams
Cemetery Club, The (1993) .... Jessica
... aka Looking for a Live One (1993)
Addams Family, The (1991) .... Wednesday Addams
Hard Way, The (1991) .... Bonnie
Mermaids (1990) .... Kate Flax
Other Christina Ricci pages on Women of Horror:
Addams Family
Sleepy Hollow