- Biography -
| Full Name | Christina Ricci
| Birth Date
| February 12th, 1980
| Birth Place
| Santa Monica, CA
| Hair
| Brown
| Eyes
| Hazel
| Height
| 164 cm
| Hometown
| Montclair , NY
| Father
| Ralph (a Manhattan Lawyer)
| Mother
| Sarah (a former model for Ford) and has now two jobs: | | fealtor and "stage mother".
| Sister
| Pia, 21 (college student)
| Brothers
| Dante, 23 (college student) | | Rafael, 26 (an aspiring writer and director)
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| Favorite music
| Red Hot Chilli Peppers
| | Fishbone, Soundgarden | | King Missile, Jimi Hendrix
| Favorite food
| 'Kraft' Macaroni & Cheese | | French Onion Soup
| She Admires
| Cher (her mother in Mermaids, | | Gus Van Sant (favorite director), | | Jodi Foster: "She's succeeded in something amazing" says Christina, | | | Amanda Plummer (favorite actress), | | Steven Spielburg (director of Casper),
| | Tim Roth, Michel Madson (both were in Reservoir Dog)
| Favorite Movies
| My Private Idaho | | Pulp Fiction, Dracula | | Dead again, Hamlet
| Pets
| Two cats and a dog
| Spare Time
| She just like to hang out with her friends and listen to music.
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| Summary
| She is the younghest of 4 children. When she was 7,
Ricci's father,
| | Ralph, a lawyer, moved the family to suburban Montclair, N.Y., where Ricci soon got her first big break - in a
grade school pageant (Twelve Days Before Christmas). After the show, a local movie critic whose son was also in the play told Sarah that her daughter was a
natural and recommended an agent. | "I had to go to the bathroom really bad," she recalls. "I was onstage juggling around and the conductor waved me off. I caught someone's eye and she referred me to a manager." All concerned are now glad she did. "Christina would have been a disciplinary problem in school," her mother says. "When she started working, that was the end of any problems." Christina certainly wasn't complaining: "I thought, 'School is boring. This sounds like fun.'" Ricci began getting work in commercials, and the next year landed her Mermaids role. "We're kind of kindred spirits," says Cher. "She's me in a very small body. We had slumber parties at my apartment. She still stays over sometimes when she's in L.A." In 1990, director Barry Sonnefield picked Ricci to play Wednesday in The Addams Family - and found her precociously wise. One day he told her she needed to look sadder for her next take. "I hear a little voice say, 'Barry, I can't act sadder because Wednesday has no emotions.'" he says. "I looked at her and said, 'You're absolutely right.'" Ricci says she finds most roles for teenagers "so stereotypical it makes me sick" and some directors "very condescending towards kids. They talk to you like you're 5." What kind of movies does she like? "I love violent films," she enthuses. "To try and shove violence in the corner is ridiculous when we can bring it out and make it something that doesn't hurt as much." But gor alone, Ricci says, does not a great movie make. She found Interview with the Vampire "lame" in it's inability to "portray all the characters' inner emotions." Ricci had to contend with some emotional matters herself during the last three years as her parents separated and she moved with her mother to an apartment in New York City. Ricci is an 11th grader at Manhattan's Professional Children's School, where one of her classmates is Macaulay Culkin. The two are friends, she says, and insists that a report of her insulting Culkin last month was unfounded. Some of the particulars of her life, she admits, are glamorous: she spent a month last summer with her mother in Ireland shooting the Last of the High Kings , co-starring Gabriel Byrne. Basically, though, she claims to be a regular teenager, not dating anyone - "We just hang around in groups." Her big complaint right now is that she has to be home each night when Mom decrees. "My curfew is a little early," she says wistfully. "But what are you going to do?" She was cast over for some big films, like "Jurassic Park" and "Interview with the Vampire".
| She now lives with her mother in California, cause her parents are separated (not divorced).. | She attents a highschool in Manhatten.. She bought her own Mac 520 Powerbook, with an e-mail address.
Some quotes
| "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." | About teens like in Now and Then she says: "They'd just found out about sex. I found out about it when I was like 5. Imagine if someone my age was that naive - it would be CRAZY!" Christina was asked about the kissing scene with Devon, just like in 'Casper'. She says, "We both sort of looked at each other and said, 'Again? How boring!' But he is one of the funniest and nicest guys I have ever met. It's just really weird that we ended up in two movies together, almost back to back". Downside of being an acctress: When you travel to a place you hate and you're stuck there. | | |
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