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Christina Ricci - Biography |
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Christina Ricci (born February 12,
1980) is an American Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominated actress. She
first gained fame for her role as Wednesday Addams in the Addams Family
films.
Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the fourth child of Ralph
Ricci and Sarah Murdoch. 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. The family moved to Montclair, New
Jersey, where she grew up attending Edgemont Elementary School, Mount
Hebron Middle School and Montclair High School where she graduated from in
1998. Her siblings are Dante, Pia and Rafael. She is of mostly
Scottish-Irish ancestry, although her great-grandfather was Italian; Ricci
has said that "The Italian blood has been bred out of me. There's an
Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they
all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and
more Irish women. Now I'm basically Scots-Irish".
Her parents divorced shortly after she filmed her role in 1993's Addams
Family Values.
Ricci made her cinematic debut at the age of 9 alongside Cher, Bob
Hoskins, and Winona Ryder in Mermaids. She auditioned for the roles that
were eventually played by Kirsten Dunst in the films Little Women and
Interview with the Vampire. She also appeared in the video for Moby's song
"Natural Blues," and in ads for The Gap.
Ricci is perhaps best known for her roles in The Addams Family films,
Sleepy Hollow, Monster and independent films including Buffalo 66, Prozac
Nation, and The Opposite of Sex. Ricci had to turn down the role of Ronna
in Go (1999) because of scheduling conflicts. She was turned down four
times for the role of Lolita Haze in Lolita (1997), which eventually went
to Dominique Swain. Ricci was originally slated to play the lead in Ghost
World (2001), but by the time it was filmed she was too old for the part
and had moved on to other projects. Thora Birch took over the role. Ricci
has also begun producing films.
On August 17th, 2006 the Internet Movie Database reported that Ricci feels
she is "too short" to ever be an A-List actress. In her own words: "I
don't think that's ever going to happen for me. I'm five-one first thing
in the morning, and I tend to look really small on camera. I can probably
go as far as Holly Hunter went, then I think that's going to be it. I have
a feeling I am way too small."
Ricci has several tattoos, including a bouquet of sweet peas on her lower
back, a bat on her bikini line, a lion on her shoulder blade and others.
Ricci also owns her own production company, responsible for films she has
starred in, Prozac Nation and Pumpkin.
Ricci 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. She
supported John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004.
On December 4, 1999, she appeared on Saturday Night Live as the guest
host, in which she parodied Britney Spears and the Olsen twins. During one
of her skits, she accidentally punched actress Ana Gasteyer in the face.
The skit was a parody of the "Sally Jessy Raphael" show, in which she
played a 13-year-old runaway who sleeps with dogs, and required her to
fake-punch Sally, 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.
In February of 2006, Christina made a guest appearance as a paramedic in
the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy.
She has admited to injuring herself in the past. |
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Christina Ricci - Personal Quotes |
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"I spend a lot of time with my
mother. When I'm doing movies, she's always with me. We spend days
being bored in an apartment together waiting for someone to call and
say I'm needed for a shot. Because we're together so much, we have
to get along. We have to find ways to get to know each other. We've
gone through a lot of stuff, you know, and I think we're pretty
close."
"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]
"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 embarrassed."
"I don't have any training, and I don't believe in training. Of
course, people who don't have any training always say that."
[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 like playing people who are so afraid and ashamed of who they are
and so disgusted by everyone around them that they decide to become
the ultimate extreme of what they're afraid they are."
"I don't think I'll be reformed until I'm well into my fifties."
"You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to
sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into
hard-core feminism'."
"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."
(On smooching Johnny Depp) "We actually had some sex scenes, which
was very strange. In front of 20 people on the set, with someone who
was 27, who you met for the first time when you were nine. It was a
little weird."
"I know he's got a girlfriend, but I could so corrupt him. He would
be a hot date, and that is what I need right now. I have met him, so
I know what I am talking about here. He's a nice, home-loving boy
with a great body and great eyes. And when he reads this, he's
probably going to run a mile." [about her crush on Josh Hartnett]
"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." [1995]
"Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are."
"My first kiss was with the most chivalrous little boy I ever met in
my life. It was in kindergarten. There was this kid who was really a
jerk, and he wouldn't let me get on the school bus. He was about to
hit me when this little boy named Nicky shoved me down, stood up and
took the blow. So Nicky instantly became the kindergarten stud. The
day he got hit for me, I lined up all the little girls, and everyone
kissed him. That was my way of thanking him."
"I'm not mainstream-looking. I'm not very skinny. I'm not
...like....beautiful. The point of mainstream movies is to cast
someone that everyones' going to love. Because of my persona, I'm
controversial. I don't do anything in my real life to deserve that.
I don't drink, I don't do drugs. But studio people don't want to put
me in their movies. They think I might offend. "
"I never did drugs - they made me feel awful physically. Of course,
I experimented, but soon I thought, 'This is not worth the shame
spiral the next day'. I'm the kind of person who, if I went to a
slumber party and smoked a cigarette, I assumed my parents were
going to die as punishment. So I'd have to call my mom, tell her I'd
smoked and feel really bad."
"Things were all about appearances. We were supposed to be
socialites when we grew up. She's not like that now, but my mother
used to say things like, 'When you're older, you can go on a
scotch-and-steak- diet'. My dad was also very image-conscious." [On
being brought up by her parents]
"Everybody asked, 'How do you feel about playing a bitch?' And I'd
say, 'If you knew anything about human nature, you'd realize that
for this girl, being like that is a total front for being unhappy'."
"All my other relationships have been three months. I used to always
cheat on my boyfriends. For no reason...Just to create a little
drama. And now I don't need that. I don't need that. I don't need
any more drama."
"I remember when I was little, all the mothers saying once you're 13
you have to stop working because there are no roles for teenagers.
But I think I was lucky because just when I got to be a teenager,
there started to be a lot more roles for kids my age. For a while it
did look like I would have to keep doing kids' movies to stay in the
business, but then when I was 15, The Ice Storm (1997) came along."
I got ugly. Throughout my childhood, my favorite rejection was 'She
looks too healthy.' They wanted that really gaunt, runaway girl kind
of look. I was like, 'Mom, I thought you could never be too
healthy.' She said, 'Ignore them'. |
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Christina Ricci - Filmography |
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Home of the Brave (2006) ....
Sarah Schivino
Black Snake Moan (2006) .... Rae
Penelope (2006) .... Penelope
"Grey's Anatomy" .... Hannah Davies (2 episodes, 2006)
- As We Know It (2006) TV Episode .... Hannah Davies
- It's the End of the World (2006) TV Episode .... Hannah Davies
Cursed (2005) .... Ellie
... aka Verflucht (Germany)
... aka Wes Craven's Cursed (USA: complete title)
"Joey" .... Mary Teresa (1 episode, 2005)
- Joey and the Fancy Sister (2005) TV Episode .... Mary Teresa
Monster (2003) .... Selby
I Love Your Work (2003) .... Shana
Anything Else (2003) .... Amanda
... aka Anything else, la vie et tout le reste (France)
... aka Vie et tout le reste, La (France)
"Ally McBeal" .... Liza Bump (7 episodes, 2002)
- Bygones (2002) TV Episode .... Liza Bump
- All of Me (2002) TV Episode .... Liza Bump
- What I'll Never Do for Love Again (2002) TV Episode .... Liza Bump
- Another One Bites the Dust (2002) TV Episode .... Liza Bump
- Tom Dooley (2002) TV Episode .... Liza Bump
(2 more)
"Malcolm in the Middle" .... Kelly (1 episode, 2002)
- Company Picnic: Part 1 (2002) TV Episode .... Kelly
Miranda (2002) .... Miranda
Pumpkin (2002) .... Carolyn McDuffy
The Laramie Project (2002) .... Romaine Patterson
The Gathering (2002) .... Cassie Grant
Prozac Nation (2001) .... Elizabeth Wurtzel
All Over the Guy (2001) .... Rayna Wyckoff
Moby: Play - The DVD (2001) (V) (uncredited) .... Angel
The Man Who Cried (2000) .... Suzie
... aka The man who cried - Les larmes d'un homme (France)
Bless the Child (2000) .... Cheri Post
... aka Prophezeiung, Die (Germany)
"Saturday Night Live" .... Host / ... (3 episodes, 1991-1999)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
- Episode #25.7 (1999) TV Episode .... Host
- Nicole Kidman/Stone Temple Pilots (1993) TV Episode (uncredited)
.... Jennifer
- Episode #17.8 (1991) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Wednesday Addams
Sleepy Hollow (1999) .... Katrina Van Tassel
... aka Sleepy Hollow (Germany)
No Vacancy (1999) .... Lillian
200 Cigarettes (1999) .... Val
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) .... Teenage Hooker
... aka Ed Wood's I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
... aka I Awoke Early the Day I Died (USA)
Desert Blue (1998) .... Ely Jackson
Pecker (1998) .... Shelley
Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) .... Gwendy Doll
The Opposite of Sex (1998) .... Dede Truitt
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .... Lucy
Buffalo '66 (1998) .... Layla
Souvenir (1998) (voice) .... Young Orlando
The Ice Storm (1997) .... Wendy Hood
That Darn Cat (1997) .... Patti Randall
Little Red Riding Hood (1997) .... Little Red Riding Hood
The Last of the High Kings (1996) .... Erin
... aka Summer Fling (USA: video title)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) .... Dee Dee
"The Simpsons" .... Erin (1 episode, 1996)
- Summer of 4 Ft. 2 (1996) TV Episode (voice) .... Erin
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995) .... Beth Easton
... aka Secret de Bear Mountain, Le (Canada: French title)
Now and Then (1995) .... Young Roberta Martin
Casper (1995) .... Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey
Addams Family Values (1993) .... Wednesday Addams
The Cemetery Club (1993) .... Jessica
... aka Looking for a Live One
The Addams Family (1991) .... Wednesday Addams
The Hard Way (1991) .... Bonnie
Mermaids (1990) .... Kate Flax
"H.E.L.P." .... Olivia (1 episode)
- Are You There, Alpha Centauri? (????) TV Episode .... Olivia |
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Christina Ricci - Related Links |
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Wikipedia: Christina Ricci
YouTube: Christina Ricci
Christina Ricci at Celebs, Inc.
Christina Ricci at Babemania.com
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