Christina Ricci Free Screensaver. Photos slideshow. Christina Ricci (born February 12, 1980) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated American actress. Ricci began performing as a child actress; Her breakout role was as the dark 12-year-old Wednesday Addams in the successful The Addams Family film. As an adult, Ricci began appearing in more mature roles after 1997's The Ice Storm. She predominantly performs in many varied roles ranging from romantic comedies, dramas, and horror films.Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born in 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of a lawyer father and realtor mother. She made her screen debut at the age of 9 in Mermaids (1990), in which she worked with Cher. Her breakthrough adult role was in The Ice Storm (1997), in which she plays a nymphet who skillfully seduces two brothers. She worked with Johnny Depp and Casper Van Dien in the Tim Burton film Sleepy Hollow (1999). Candid and controversial, as well as a highly skilled actress, Christina was much in demand by film makers in the late 1990s. In 1999, at the age of 19, she directed and worked on the screenplay for the movie Asylum. A compulsive talker and smoker who seems to have a new and refreshing view on every subject, the gorgeous Christina is becoming a top box office draw and seems to be destined for superstardom in this new century.