Christina Ricci

She started dating actor Adam Goldberg in 2003 and though the relationship continued till 2007, they eventually split up. Thereafter, she dated Chris Evans, the Captain America star, but they split within a few months.

She dated co-actor Owen Benjamin from 2008 after they met while acting in the movie ‘All’s Faire in Love’ and got engaged to him in following March. But the engagement was called off in June 2009.

Christina Ricci met James Heerdegen while working in ‘Pan Am’ and dated him for some time before they got engaged in February 2013 and married on 26 October 2013. The couple had a baby boy on August 2014.

Christina Ricci was born on 12 February 1980 in Santa Monica, California, to Sarah and Ralph Ricci. Her mother is a real estate agent and her father is a lawyer and therapist. She is the youngest of the four children of her parents

While she was a kid, her family moved to Montclaire, New Jersey and she studied at Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, Montclair High School and the Morristown-Beard School before leaving for the Professional Children’s School in New York. She never completed her schooling due to acting schedules.

Christina Ricci was a natural actor and even without any training in acting she started featuring in commercials from an early age of six.

In 1990, she became an established child actor after her debut film ‘Mermaids’ and it paved the way for her to get more substantial roles in later movies.

She became famous after she acted the part of ‘Wednesday Addams’, a precocious child in ‘The Addams Family’ 1991.

She followed up her success in a subsequent film ‘Addams Family Values’, released in 1993, and became something like a teen icon as well as a child actor who was in demand for films.

Her first role as an adult actor was in the movie ‘The Ice Storm’, in 1997, which reinforced her credentials as an actor though she portrayed a negative role.

Her portrayal of Wednesday Addams in ‘The Addams Family’ created ripples in the acting circles and made her a renowned and sought-for child actor.

She won wide acclaim for her role in ‘Opposite of Sex’ in 1998 where she portrayed a teenager who wrecks the life of people around her by behaving impulsively.

Christina Ricci’s portrayal of the character of girlfriend of a notorious female serial killer in the movie ‘Monster’ earned kudos for acting in a dark role convincingly.