CHRISTINA RICCI, MUSE OF INDEPENDENT PRODUCTIONS

Today, The Grandma has been reading about Christina Ricci, the American actress who was born on a day like today in 1980.

Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is an American actress. Known for playing unusual characters with a dark edge, Ricci predominantly works in independent productions, but has also appeared in numerous box office hits. She has received nominations for a Golden Globe and for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

Ricci made her film debut at the age of nine in Mermaids (1990), and as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993). Subsequent appearances in Casper and Now and Then (both 1995) established her as a teen idol.

At 17, she moved into adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), which led to parts in several independent films, such as Pecker (1998), The Opposite of Sex (1998), and Monster (2003). She has also starred in Sleepy Hollow (1999), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Penelope (2006), and Speed Racer (2008), and had a supporting role in The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

On television, Ricci appeared in the final season of Ally McBeal (2002), and had a guest role on Grey's Anatomy in 2006. She also starred in the ABC series Pan Am (2011–12), and produced and starred in the series The Lizzie Borden Chronicles (2015) and Z: The Beginning of Everything (2017).

In 2021, she began starring in the critically acclaimed Showtime series Yellowjackets, and in 2022, she appeared in the comedy horror series Wednesday.

In 2010, Ricci made her Broadway debut in Time Stands Still. She is the national spokesperson for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). She is married and has two children.

Christina Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (née Murdoch) and Ralph Ricci. Her mother worked as a Ford Agency model during the 1960s and later became a real estate agent. Her father had a varied career, including jobs as a gym teacher, lawyer, drug counsellor, and primal scream therapist. Regarding her surname, Ricci has stated that she has Italian, Irish, and Scottish ancestry.

At the age of eight, Ricci was discovered by a local theater critic when she starred in a school production of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Ricci's big-screen debut was in the 1990 film Mermaids, as Cher's character's youngest daughter, Kate. She also appeared -alongside Cher and co-star Winona Ryder- in the music video for The Shoop Shoop Song, which featured on the film's soundtrack. The following year, she starred as the morbidly precocious Wednesday Addams in Barry Sonnenfeld's The Addams Family, based on the cartoon of the same name. She reprised the role for the 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values. Both films were a commercial success, and critics singled out Ricci's performances as highlights.

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 I don't think I like characters
who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Christina Ricci