Christina Ricci- Net Worth, Relationship, Career, Facts & Photos

Christina Ricci is a well-known American actress. Christina Ricci is noted for portraying unique characters with a dark edge; she works primarily in indie movies but has also been in a number of box office smashes. Christina Ricci has been nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe.

Christina Ricci Wiki/Biography

Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980, in Santa Monica, California, United States. Her nationality is American, and she is white. Her star sign is Aquarius, and he is a Christian (religion). Her occupation is that of a well-known American actress.

Christina Ricci’s Educational Qualification

Christina Ricci attended Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, Montclair High School, and Morristown-Beard School before graduating. She later attended New York City’s Professional Children’s School. She then began her acting career, appearing in several films.

Christina Ricci Physical Stats

Christina Ricci’s physical appearance

• Height: 5′ 1″ inches
• Weight: 49 kg
• Eye color: hazel
• Hair color: dark brown

Christina Ricci Family & Parents

Christina Ricci was born to American parents in a middle-class household. Ralph Ricci is her father. Throughout his career, he held a variety of positions, including those of gym instructor, lawyer, drug counselor, and primal scream therapist. Sarah Ricci is her mother; in the 1960s, she was a model for the Ford Agency and afterwards worked as a real estate agent. She is the youngest of her parents’ four children. Rafael, Dante, and Pia are three more siblings who were born in 1971, 1974, and 1976, respectively. When she was a teenager, her parents divorced.

Christina Ricci’s Boyfriend, Husband, Children, and Relationships

Both Christina Ricci’s marital status and her dating status are single. In 2008, she began dating actor and comedian Owen Benjamin, whom she had met while working on the movie All’s Faire in Love. In March 2009, they became engaged; however, they broke it up two months later.

Christina Ricci with his ex-boyfriend James Heerdegen

She then revealed that Christina Ricci and dolly grip James Heerdegen, whom she met in 2012 while working on the series Pan Am, were engaged. They are getting married in Manhattan on October 26. A boy was delivered to them in August 2014. On July 2, 2020, Christina Ricci announced that she was divorcing her husband of almost seven years. She claimed in her divorce paperwork that Heerdegen had abused her severely on both a physical and emotional level and that “several of these acts of abuse” had happened in front of their kids.

The Los Angeles Police Department had previously responded to a report at the Woodland Hills, California, residence of Ricci and Heerdegen on June 25, 2020. The day before she filed for divorce, Christina Ricci was given an emergency protection order against Heerdegen, but Heerdegen was not detained. Heerdegen will be permitted visitation, and Christina Ricci will be given exclusive custody of their son in April 2021.

In August 2021, she and her partner, hairdresser Mark Hampton, made the announcement that she was expecting their second child. Two months later, on October 9, Christina Ricci made her engagement to Hampton public. In December 2021, they gave birth to a girl, their first child together.

More to that, she was previously in a romantic relationship with Chris Evans.

Christina Ricci’s Career and Profession

Beginnings and child stardom

When Christina Ricci appeared in a school play of The Twelve Days of Christmas at the age of 8, a nearby theater critic noticed her. She came up with a scheme to get the part for herself; she insulted her opponent so much that he punched her. Originally, another youngster had been placed in the role. He misplaced the part when she turned against him. “I’ve always been a tremendously ambitious person,” Christina Ricci recalled. I believe that was the first time it truly manifested itself.

The first of these parodied the then-current practice of dumping garbage in the rivers along the east coast of the United States and showed Ricci as a little child at a birthday celebration when medical waste came flying out of a ruptured piata. Ricci received her SAG-AFTRA card as a result. In the 1990 film Mermaids, where she played Kate, the youngest daughter of Cher’s character, Ricci made her big-screen debut.

Along with Cher and Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci had an appearance in the music video for “The Shoop Shoop Song,” which was included on the soundtrack to the movie. She played the same part again in the 1993 follow-up, Addams Family Values.

 

The performances by Ricci were considered the best parts of both films, which were commercial hits. She appeared in the 1995 action movie Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain and the coming-of-age drama Now and Then as the younger Roberta, played by Rosie O’Donnell. In Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Christina Ricci also played a supporting role. Anjelica Huston, with whom Ricci had already collaborated on the Addams Family movies, was making her directorial debut.

Transition to adult roles

She had the lead role in the 1997 Disney adaptation of “That Darn Cat,” a mediocre box office hit. With her depiction of the disturbed, sexually curious Wendy Hood in And Lee’s critically praised art film, The Ice Storm, she transitions into “real adult parts” later that year. Originally, Natalie Portman was cast in the role, but she declined it because her parents thought the roles were inappropriate. The young actors in the cast perform their roles proudly, with Christina Ricci standing out in particular.

The highlight of the movie is her hilarious and heartfelt performance, which perfectly captures the disobedience and disorientation associated with puberty. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a quirky road movie directed by Terry Gilliam, featured Christina Ricci in a minor role. This was her first time working with Johnny Depp.

For the latter, Ricci received favorable reviews and a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Actress. Todd McCarthy of Variety called her “deadly humorous” and said that she performed her lines with “the polish of a future actor.” Bette

Continued Acclaim

In 1999, Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp co-starred in Tim Burton’s gothic horror fantasy movie Sleepy Hollow. The movie was a box office and critical hit, and Christina Ricci won a Saturn Award for playing Katrina Van Tassel in it. She had a guest hosting appearance on Saturday Night Live on December 4, 1999, when she performed impersonations of the Olsen twins and Britney Spears. Critics felt that Ricci was the standout performance in the picture, which was her first project as a producer. Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine called her “splendid.”

 

The 2002 movie, which had its HBO premiere, garnered favorable reviews from critics. TV Guide’s Matt Roush applauded the cast’s performances and said that the movie’s investigation of homophobia would “enlighten” viewers. The same year, Christina Ricci co-starred with Kyle MacLachlan in the British comedy-thriller Miranda, and she made an appearance as the attorney Liza Bump in seven episodes of Ally McBeal’s fifth and final season. Pumpkin is alive, takes chances, and employs the cutting sword of satire to expose the smug political correctness of other films in its campus-themed genre, according to Roger Ebert’s review for The Chicago Sun-Times. It will not take the safe route.

The performances also exhibit daring, as evidenced by the way she dives headfirst into the perilous subject. In the British horror thriller The Gathering, Christina Ricci portrayed a young girl who was exploring England on foot. In Adam Goldberg’s 2003 comedy, “I Love Your Work,” Christina Ricci played the ex-girlfriend of a rising movie star who was living the celebrity lifestyle. A. O. Scott of The New York Times referred to the latter as an “antiromantic comedy” in his review, and he praised Ricci for playing her character with “feral, neurotic joy.” She appeared in the biographical crime drama Monster in 2003 alongside Charlize Theron. Tyria Moore, the real-life companion of serial murderer Aileen, appeared in it as Selby Wall, a fictional version of Tyria Moore.

Christina Ricci was the performer in The Gathering.

Film, television, and theater

Beck’s 2005 album Guero had a cameo by Ricci, who sang on the song “Hell Yes.” In addition to playing a paramedic in two episodes of Grey’s Anatomy in 2006, Christina Ricci featured in the infamous Wes Craven horror movie Cursed. For this role, she was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Penelope was released in 2006, with Christina Ricci playing the lead role.

While Andrea Gronvall of The Chicago Reader thought it was “a worthy vehicle” for Ricci, Empire dubbed the movie a “beautiful fairy tale.” Particularly well-received was her depiction as nymphomaniac Rae in the drama Black Snake Moan (2006), which she co-starred in with Samuel L. Jackson. Christina Ricci underwent weight-loss surgery to make her character appear “unhealthy.” In a different 2006 movie, “Home of the Brave,” an ensemble drama that followed the lives of four troops in Iraq and their homecoming to the United States, Ricci and Jackson collaborated once more.

In Speed Racer, a US$120 adaptation of the Japanese anime and manga series of the same name, Christina Ricci plays the girlfriend of the title character. Additionally, Christina Ricci shared a scene with Orlando Bloom in the anthology movie New York, I Love You (2008). She co-starred with Liam Neeson in the 2009 psychological suspense film After.

In the play Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, opposite Laura Linney, she made her Broadway debut as Mandy. On September 23, 2010, she gave her first performance at the Cort Theatre. Alicia Silverstone, who portrayed Mandy during the play’s first run in 2009, was replaced by her. Ricci was hailed as “assured” and “appealing” by the New York Times.

Christina Ricci’s filmography

• She filmed “Mermaids” in 1990. She produced The Hard Way and The Addams Family in 1991.
• She acted in The Cemetery Club and Addams Family Values in 1993.
• She shot Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain and Casper in 1995.
• In 1996, she appeared in The Last of the High Kings and Bastard, both directed by Carolina.
• Her 1997 productions included That Darn Cat, The Ice Storm, and Little Red Riding Hood.
• The Opposite of Sex, Buffalo 666, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Small Soldiers, Pecker, I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, and Desert Blue were among the movies she starred in in 1998.
• She acted in Sleepy Hollow, No Vacancy, and 200 Cigarettes in 1999. She produced Bless the Child and The Man Who Cried in 2000. In 2001,

Christina Ricci Television

• She was employed at H.E.L.P. in 1990. She contributed to The Simpsons in 1996.
• She contributed to Ally McBeal, Malcolm in the Middle, and The Laramie Project in 2002.
• She worked at Joey’s in 2005. She contributed to Saving Grace in 2009.
• She worked on Pan Am and The Good Wife in 2011–2012. She worked at Lizzie Borden in 2014 and used an axe. She contributed to The Lizzie Borden Chronicles in 2015.
• She contributed to Z: The Beginning of Everything in 2017. Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story was her 2019 project.
• She participated in “50 States of Fright” in 2020.
• She contributed to Rick and Morty in 2021. She was employed with the Yellowjackets in 2021.
• She worked at Wednesday and The Wheel in 2022.

Others of Christina Ricci’s Works

Music

• 2005: “Hell Yes”—Beck

Music videos

• 1990: “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” – Cher
• 1991: “Addams Groove” (MC Hammer)
• 1993: “Addams Family (Whoomp!)” tag team
• 2000: “Natural Blues” by Moby

Video games

• 2008: The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon as Cynder
• 2008: Speed Racer: The Videogame as Trixie

Audiobooks

• Gossip Girl, Narrator
• Gossip Girl, “You Know You Love Me”—Narrator
• Little Women, Narrator

Christina Ricci’s net worth

Christina Ricci’s net worth is estimated at $8 million. Christina Ricci’s profession is that of a famous American actress; she worked in so many movies and television shows and earned money from them. Christina Ricci’s annual salary is between $1 and 2 million dollars.

Christina Ricci’s social handles

• Instagram: riccigrams
• Facebook: ChristinaRicci
• Twitter: ChristinaRicci

Christina Ricci’s Amazing Facts

• The Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network’s national spokeswoman is Christina Ricci.
• After Christina Ricci declared she would quit wearing fur, PETA took her off of their list.
• Ricci said she was expecting her second child with her partner, hairdresser Mark Hampton, in August 2021.
• Numerous art periodicals mention Christina Ricci as one of Mark Ryden’s inspirations.
• Several of his oil paintings and drawings include her appearance.
• She also got a bouquet of sweet peas on her lower back and the phrases “Move or Bleed” tattooed on the left side of her rib cage.
• Christina Ricci has battled anorexia and anxiety.