Born on Feb 12, 1980 in Sana Monica, CA, United States. Reportedly 5' 3".

One problem facing every performer is getting married to the thing that made them popular, since it generally means having to choose between having a career based on something the performer has outgrown on the one hand and having no career at all on the other. It's for this reason that so many child actors whose popularity rested on their cuteness or precociousness utterly disappear as gangly teens and embittered adults, and why Courtney Love, Fiona Apple, and Alanis Morissette dropped off the pop culture radar after they worked out all their previous angst and moved on to other things. The rule here, it seems, is: when you find a formula that works, don't change it.

In this respect Christina Ricci was lucky. Standing somewhere between early Rose McGowan and early Janeane Garofalo, she came into her own when she was eleven years old in The Addams Family not for being adorably cute, but for being adorably dark, angry, and cynical — a hook that was able to sustain her even through her portly teen years, when most former child actors are unknowingly preparing for careers on E!'s True Hollywood Stories. Attempts at more light-hearted roles (Mermaids, Casper, That Darn Cat, to name a few) went ignored by the public, which preferred Christina in the role of bluntly outspoken, dark-humored critic of Hollywood pretentiousness. And so it was that Christina found her niche and became a familiar icon in the indie world, offering those who were sick to death of Jennifer Love Hewitt and her busty, happy, air-headed kind a busty, angry, world-wise anti-Jennifer Love Hewitt to rally round.

Of course, most people can't stay angry forever. “[I'm not] gothic or evil or weird,” she insisted in an interview with Mademoiselle — after years of nurturing her image of being gothic, evil, and weird. “I caused a lot of that because I like to say what no one else will say in interviews. Like, I eat red meat and love fur and ‘Screw all those animal rights people!’ I love to say that stuff ... I like to say, only because it's funny, that I buy only cruelty-intensive products.”

Let's hope for her sake that she keeps up the angry cynic bit, because no matter how shy and normal she may be in real life, if she keeps sapping at her anti-JLH persona by insisting that all her marketably dark qualities were lies or exaggerations, what's left to base her popularity on? At 5'3", the road from freakishly thin to unemployably heavy is apparently only a couple donuts away, so she can't rely on her looks alone — big chest or not (an issue that became moot in June 2002) — and in any case her anime-like face with its haunted eyes doesn't hold the same broad appeal as more conventional faces. (At her worst, she looks like a young Rosie O'Donnell; at her best, she looks more interesting than traditionally beautiful.) Christina once admitted to Spin magazine that she didn't much care for the new, kinder, gentler Courtney Love; hopefully she'll keep in mind that the world may very well not care for a new, kinder, gentler Christina Ricci, either.

Also sprach Golem.
(More recent commentary below)

Post-op After.Life
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
It’s one of life’s cruel mysteries why once über-pneumatic Christina Ricci never bared all for the screen until after her breast reduction surgery, but what she now lacks in Sofía Vergara-like cup size she seems bent on making up for in sheer frequency of nudity — particularly in last year’s After.Life, where she not only appears naked, but naked a lot.... Read more

A nipple is a terrible thing to waste
Friday, June 19, 2009
Much attention has been paid to Heather Graham’s recent pokey appearance at the UK premiere of The Hangover, but Christina Ricci, too, has a history of rolling with her high beams on, as she did last night at the premiere of Paper Man... Read more

Cursed
Friday, February 25, 2005
A fitting title for a werewolf flick whose pedigree so clearly includes Scream, An American Werewolf in London and a little Ginger Snaps, but whose writing lacks the cleverness of any of them. The warg-sized turd starring Christina Ricci and Shannon Elizabeth opens today, but you’d be well advised to wait for it to come to cable.... Read more

Prozac Nation
Saturday, September 15, 2001
The movie hasn’t come out yet (it’s forever being pushed back), but juicy stills are starting to leak out — I’m happy to report that the day some of us thought would never come has come at last: Christina Ricci has finally unveiled her two biggest and most enduring assets on film in her first nude scene.... Read more

Film

• After.Life (2009) .... Anna Taylor
• All’s Faire in Love (2009) .... Kate
• Penelope (2008) .... Penelope
• Black Snake Moan (2007) .... Rae
• Home of the Brave (2006)
• The White Rose (2006) .... Sophie Scholl
• Adrenalynn (2005) .... Adrenalynn
• Cursed (2005) .... Ellie Hudson
• Anything Else (2003)
• I Love Your Work (2003) .... Shana
• Monster (2003) .... Selby Wall
• The Gathering (2002)
• Miranda (2002) .... Miranda
• Pumpkin (2002) .... Carolyn McDuffy
• Woody Allen Spring Project 2002 (2002)
• All Over the Guy (2001)
• Prozac Nation (2001) .... Elizabeth Wurtzel
• Bless the Child (2000) .... Cherry
• The Man Who Cried (2000) .... Suzie
• 200 Cigarettes (1999) .... Val
• No Vacancy (1999) .... Lillian
• Sleepy Hollow (1999) .... Katrina Anne Van Tassel
• Buffalo '66 (1998) .... Layla
• Desert Blue (1998) .... Ely Jackson
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) .... Lucy
• I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998; aka “I Awoke Early the Day I Died”) .... Teenage Hooker
• The Opposite of Sex (1998) .... Dedee Truitt
• Pecker (1998) .... Shelley
• Small Soldiers (1998) .... Gwendy Doll [voice]
• The Ice Storm (1997) .... Wendy Hood
• Little Red Riding Hood (1997) .... Little Red Riding Hood
• That Darn Cat (1997) .... Patti Randall
• Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) .... Dee Dee
• The Last of the High Kings (1996; aka “Summer Fling”) .... Erin
• Casper (1995) .... Kat Harvey
• Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995) .... Beth Easton
• Now and Then (1995) .... Young Roberta Martin
• Addams Family Values (1993) .... Wednesday Addams
• The Cemetery Club (1993; aka “Looking for a Live One”) .... Jessica
• The Addams Family (1991) .... Wednesday Addams
• The Hard Way (1991) .... Bonnie
• Mermaids (1990) .... Kate Flax
• Souvenir (1998) [voice]

• The Laramie Project (2002; HBO) .... Romaine Patterson

• MTV Movie Awards (2001) .... Presenter

• Grey's Anatomy: “As We Know It” (Feb 12, 2006) .... Hannah Davies
• Grey's Anatomy: “It’s the End of the World” (Feb 5, 2006) .... Hannah Davies
• Joey: “Joey and the Fancy Sister” (Feb 24, 2005) .... Mary Teresa Tribbiani
• Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (May 10, 2004) .... Herself
• Tinseltown TV (Jan 10, 2004) .... Herself
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Sep 19, 2003) .... Herself
• Ally McBeal: “Bygones” (May 20, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Ally McBeal: “All of Me” (May 13, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Ally McBeal: “What I'll Never Do for Love Again” (May 6, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Ally McBeal: “Another One Bites the Dust” (Apr 29, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Apr 26, 2002) .... Herself
• Ally McBeal: “Tom Dooley” (Apr 22, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Ally McBeal: “Love Is All Around: Part 1” (Apr 15, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Ally McBeal: “Love Is All Around: Part 2” (Apr 15, 2002) .... Liza Bump
• Malcolm in the Middle: “Company Picnic” (Feb 3, 2002) .... Kelly
• Nulle part ailleurs: “La Belgique est un pays” (Dec 12, 2001) .... Herself
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (May 24, 2001) .... Herself
• Saturday Night Live (Dec 4, 1999) .... Host
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Nov 20, 1999) .... Herself
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (Jun 18, 1999) .... Herself
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Jun 27, 1998) .... Herself
• Nulle part ailleurs: “Christina Ricci” (Mar 11, 1998) .... Herself
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show (Sep 24, 1997) .... Herself
• The Simpsons: “Summer of 4 Ft. 2” (May 19, 1996) .... Erin [voice]
• Saturday Night Live (Nov 20, 1993) .... Jennifer [uncredited]
• Saturday Night Live (Dec 7, 1991) .... Wednesday Addams [uncredited]
• H.E.L.P.: “Are You There, Alpha Centauri?” (1990?) .... Olivia

• Moby: Play — The DVD (2001) .... Angel [uncredited]

• Christina Ricci — Ya Got $179k Layin’ Around?
  TMZ.com (Apr 23, 2010)
  Tax season ain’t over yet for Christina Ricci — and if the IRS is correct, she owes ... a lot!
• Christina Ricci Gives Her Career a Boost with a Smaller Bust
  The National Enquirer (Jun 25, 2002)
  Christina Ricci's cups runneth over no more! The once top-heavy actress — daughter Wednesday in The Addams Family flicks — gave her career a boost by reducing her bust.
• Dark Angel
  Vogue (Jun 2002)
  Plum Sykes on how Christina Ricci transformed herself from a rebel teen into a Versace-clad star.

Cyber Temples

• Christina Ricci Nude Celebrity Movie Reviews
  Mr. Skin
  Bio, filmography, and nude stills and clips from her films

Miscellaneous

• Christina Ricci Filmography
  Internet Movie Database
  Always up-to-date filmography
• Christina Ricci
  Wikipedia
  Christina Ricci in wikireality