Christina Ricci.s biography

• Born: Feb 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '90s-2000s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
• Career Highlights: The Opposite of Sex, The Ice Storm, Buffalo '66
• First Major Screen Credit: Mermaids (1990)

• Biography

• One of the most celebrated actresses of her generation, as well as one of the few child stars to make a successful transition to adult roles, Christina Ricci has been impressing audiences and critics with her unnervingly accurate performances since debuting in1990
• The daughter of a lawyer and a former Ford model and the youngest of four children, Ricci was born in Santa Monica, CA, on February 12, 1980. Following her family's move to New York when she was eight, Ricci got her start acting in commercials. Her big screen debut came shortly after, when director  cast her as  younger daughter Although much attention went to  who played Ricci's older sister, the young actress made enough of an impression to land more work: The following year, she starred as the morbidly precocious Wednesday Addams in the hit film adaptation of  The role would help to establish Ricci as an actress known for playing dark, unconventional characters; she went on to play Wednesday again in the film's 1993 sequel
• Following a series of films both good and bad, including , in which she played the young , and the critically panned but commercially successful , Ricci starred as the troubled, sexually precocious Wendy Hood in widely praised  The actress handled the part with uncanny maturity, leading many observers to conclude that she was truly beginning to come into her own. This assessment was solidified with Ricci's subsequent roles in films like  (in which she played  unwitting abductee-turned-girlfriend), John Waters' and the last of which cast her as Dedee, a delightfully loathsome girl who wreaks tabloid-style havoc on everyone she encounters, whether they be dead or alive. For her performance as Dedee, Ricci was nominated for a Golden Globe and attained the unofficial title of the Sundance Film Festival's 1998 "It" Girl.
• Now riding high as an indie teen queen, Ricci went on in 1999 to headline the much-anticipated but ultimately disappointing  the same year, she could be seen in which featured  co-stars  and  and  in which she played Gothic princess Katrina Van Tassel opposite  Ichabod Crane in s adaptation of Washington Irving's ghostly tale.
• In 2000, Ricci starred in , in which she played a young Jewish woman who flees from Germany to Paris during World War II, and  a supernatural thriller that also starred  and
• Though rumors of a stateside release date for Ricci's 2001 drama continued to linger, the dark young starlet would move on to such unconventional efforts as (2002) and the offbeat romantic comedy  which found her as a popular sorority girl who risks becoming a social outcast after falling for a mentally disabled young athlete whom she has volunteered to help train. Though subsequent efforts as and  (both 2002) fell beneath the radar at the box office, Ricci was a hit with Ally McBeal fans when she appeared in a recurring role in the Foxs 2003 comedy  found her as charming as ever (despite her sometimes shrill characterization in the film). At festivals that year, Ricci could be seen in supporting roles in actor s dark drama , as well as in director  Aileen Wuornos biopic
• She next appeared in the werewolf film  before moving on to  with  and  with Samuel L. Jackson. In 2006 Ricci turned in a memorable guest appearance on the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy as an EMT put in the difficult position of keeping a bomb stuck inside a patient from
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