CHRISTINA RICCI BIOGRAPHY

Christina Ricci born February 12, 1980 is an American actress. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993), and her role as Kat Harvey in Casper (1995). Ricci made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), followed by an acclaimed performance in The Opposite of Sex (1998), for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She continued her success with well-received performances in Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Monster (2003).

Ricci has appeared in the films Black Snake Moan (2007), Penelope (2008), Speed Racer (2008), New York, I Love You (2009) and After.Life (2009) opposite Liam Neeson.

Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the fourth and youngest child of Sarah (née Murdoch), a former Ford Model and real estate agent, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and psychiatrist. Regarding her ancestry, Ricci has stated 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."

The family moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where she grew up attending Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, and Montclair High School as well as the Morristown-Beard School. After one year, she left the high school for the Professional Children's School in New York City. Her siblings are Rafael (born 1971), Dante (born 1974), and Pia (born 1976)

Ricci owns her own production company, Blaspheme Films, responsible for Prozac Nation and Pumpkin.She is on the national board of VOX-Voices for Planned Parenthood.She will also be appearing in national ads for emergency contraception. She supported John Kerry's presidential bid in 2004.

After making the top of PETA's worst-dressed list and receiving a letter from the animal rights group, Ricci decided to give up wearing fur.

In 2004, Ricci appeared as the first model in the Spring/Summer 2005 Louis Vuitton show, and also appeared in advertisements for the popular French fashion house that year.

In April 2007, Ricci became the national spokesperson for RAINN, the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network for the United States,^{[citation needed]} which assists victims of these crimes and promotes programs that help prevent them from occurring. She cited some of her research in Black Snake Moan role as educational on the importance of the issues that RAINN deals with.

Ricci has many tattoos: a lion on her right shoulder blade (a reference to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, a favorite novel of hers as a child), a fairy on the inside of her right wrist, praying hands on her left hip (this tattoo was originally a bat), the name "Jack" on her right thigh for a dead pet, a sparrow on her right breast, and a mermaid on her left ankle. She also had the words "Move or Bleed" on the left side of her ribcage as well as a bouquet of sweet pea on her lower back.

She was briefly engaged to fellow actor Owen Benjamin.

Filmography :

- 1990 Mermaids Kate Flax
- 1991 The Hard Way Bonnie
- 1991 The Addams Family Wednesday Addams
- 1993 The Cemetery Club Jessica
- 1993 Addams Family Values Wednesday Addams
- 1995 Casper Kathleen 'Kat' Harvey
- 1995 Now and Then Young Roberta Martin
- 1995 Golddiggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain Beth Easton
- 1996 Bastard Out of Carolina Dee Dee
- 1996 The Last of the High Kings Erin
- 1997 Little Red Riding Hood Little Red Riding Hood
- 1997 That Darn Cat Patti Randall
- 1997 The Ice Storm Wendy Hood
- 1998 Souvenir Young Orlando (voice)
- 1998 Buffalo '66 Layla
- 1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Lucy
- 1998 The Opposite of Sex Dee Dee Truitt
- 1998 Small Soldiers Gwendy Doll (voice)
- 1998 Pecker Shelley
- 1998 Desert Blue Ely Jackson
- 1998 I Woke Up Early the Day I Died Teenage Hooker
- 1999 200 Cigarettes Val
- 1999 No Vacancy Lillian
- 1999 Sleepy Hollow Katrina VanTassel
- 2000 Bless the Child Cheri Post
- 2000 The Man Who Cried Suzie
- 2001 All Over the Guy Rayna Wyckoff
- 2001 Prozac Nation Elizabeth Wurtzel
- 2002 The Gathering Cassie Grant
- 2002 The Laramie Project Romaine Patterson
- 2002 Pumpkin Carolyn McDuffy
- 2002 Miranda Miranda (Alice)
- 2003 Monster Selby
- 2003 Anything Else Amanda
- 2005 Cursed Ellie
- 2006 Penelope Penelope Upcoming
- 2006 Home of the Brave Sarah Schivino
- 2006 The White Rose Sophie Scholl
- 2007 Black Snake Moan Rae.