Every movie star has had a unique road to fame. Christina Ricci's path to her unique image began in her earliest childhood, thanks to her upbringing from extraordinary parents.
Childhood
Christina became the youngest of four Ricci children. She was born in 1980 in the town of Santa Monica, which is located in the United States of America, near Los Angeles. The father of the future actress, Ralph Ricci, worked as a psychotherapist for a long time, but his methods were unusual. He treated patients for phobias, depression and other disorders with the help of cryotherapy (discharge of emotions and feelings with the help of screaming), and he took them all at home.
Christina's mother, Sarah, was a former model. She dreamed that her daughter would follow in her footsteps and become the same thin and successful fashion model with sunken cheeks. Therefore, she strictly limited her daughter's diet, counted calories and excluded all desserts. When the girl was thirteen years old, her parents divorced.
All of the above factors added up the image of Christina Ricci, which we see in the "The Addams Family" that made her famous. A thin, dark-haired and pale girl who dislikes people.
Career
At one of the school productions, when Christina Ricci was 8 years old, one film critic noted her potential and advised her mother to take the girl to a casting.
And now, in 1990, the movie "Mermaid" was released with the participation of the young actress. There she met Sherilyn Sargsyan (Cher), who gave Christina a lot of useful advice. Ricci did not have a special acting education, and she herself did not see the point in it, considering the talent of truthful acting as natural.
The role in the first successful motion picture with the participation of the actress, "The Addams Family", went to her not by accident. According to rumors, the director did not even want to take her to the casting, considering the appearance of the actress completely unsuitable for this role. But Cher taught her to be memorable and never give up. Remembering the words of her friend and mentor, Christina fled and bit the director's hand. Such an unpredictable act discouraged him, but Ricci achieved her goal. She was remembered and taken on the role that gave her fame. Two years later, she starred in the second part of this film.
The gothic image became both a gift and a punishment for a young American woman. She has been repeatedly denied roles that do not fit with her role as the girl Adams. So, they refused to give her a role in the film adaptation of Nabokov's "Lolita". She was later able to prove herself as a multi-genre actress, but in the early years of her career she was given work in horror and gothic films.
The next successful work was the role in Tim Burton's film "Sleepy Hollow", where Christina played with Johnny Depp. Then she played many dissimilar roles, for example, an expressive lesbian in the movie "Monster", or a girl with a heel in place of a nose in the movie "Penelope", or a spirit in the movie "Life Beyond."
Now Christina Ricci devotes time not only to her acting career, but also to work in her own film studio. She is also a model with a long-term contract with Louis Vuitton.
Personal life
Paparazzi repeatedly photographed Christina Ricci with different men, but all of her romances lasted no more than a few months, until she met James Hirdejen, a shareholder who worked on one of the set. In 2013, the couple got engaged, but they have no children.
