The youngest of four children born to a therapist father and a real estate agent mother, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica, Calif. Her family soon relocated to Montclair, N.J.Ricci was spotted by a talent scout while performing in her elementary school pageant and was subsequently cast in her first film, Mermaids (1990), opposite Cher and Winona Ryder. After a string of family films including Casper, That Darn Cat and two Addams Family movies (playing the morbid daughter Wednesday), Ricci broke into more mature roles in 1997 with The Ice Storm (directed by Ang Lee), Vincent Gallo's Buffalo '66 and The Opposite of Sex.
Ricci has starred opposite Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sleepy Hollow (directed by Tim Burton) and The Man Who Cried. In 2003, Ricci co-starred with Charlize Theron in the acclaimed serial-killer drama Monster.
AddPenelopeForlorn heiress Penelope Wilhern (Christina Ricci) is cursed, and the only way out is to fall in love with someone of suitable stock. But how can she find her soul mate when she's sequestered inside her family's estate with only her parents (Catherine O'Hara and Richard E. Grant) to keep her... Read More
AddThe Opposite of SexAt 16, Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci) is a full-blown force of nature. When she moves in with her brother and his lover, she quickly seduces her way into a gender-bending love triangle. Lisa Kudrow plays against type as the straight-laced single woman with designs on Dedee's brother, but Ricci's... Read More
AddNow and ThenFour erstwhile school chums wax nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this gentle coming-of-age tale. Reuniting with the gang takes Samantha Albertson (Demi Moore) strolling down memory lane as she recollects the magical summer of 1970, when the then-12-year-olds first... Read More
AddThe Man Who CriedChristina Ricci stars as Suzie, a Russian Jew adrift in the world after her father leaves the family to make a fresh start in America in 1927. After emigrating to England, Suzie flowers into a no-nonsense showgirl who eventually ends up in Paris. There, she becomes involved with Cesar (Johnny Depp),... Read More
AddProzac NationBased on Elizabeth Wurtzel's best-selling memoir, Prozac Nation stars Christina Ricci as a woman on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate (Michelle Williams) and... Read More
