It was not easy at all for Jenna Ortega reprising the role of Wednesday Addams for Tim Burton’s series on this iconic character on Netflix. And, although we have loved his version, we cannot forget who set the bar so high for him in the nineties: christina ricci.
His was one of the faces of the nineties thanks to roles in blockbusters that, today, are considered authentic classics such as: The Addams Family, Casper, Friends Forever, Buffalo ’66 or Sleepy Hollow, among other titles. And, although he hasn’t stopped working since began to get in front of the camera at the age of 10We’ve been losing track of him a bit lately.
However, see it in wednesday, along with her successor as Wednesday, has made us want to catch up with this actress famous for playing offbeat characters with a dark side for which he has been nominated for awards such as the Golden Globes, Emmys or the Independent Spirit Awards.
Wednesday to Marilyn Thornhill
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Although far away in time, the time remains when the Californian actress dazzled us children of the nineties with her black humor in the addams family (1991) and its sequel The Addams Family 2: The Tradition Continues (1993), Ricci is still linked to the universe of this peculiar family as Marilyn Thornhill, the professor of botany at Nevermore Academy of wednesday. In the series, she is practically unrecognizable, characterized by long red hair, large horn-rimmed glasses, and a character characterized by being sweet and kind.
Although the fiction of Netflix represents a great return to the first line since its peak of fame passed, the truth is that Ricci has not dedicated himself to living on income all these years and He has been working on a multitude of Hollywood projects What Monster, The Smurfs 2, Matrix Resurrections at the cinema or the series Grey’s Anatomy Y yellowjackets in TV.
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Personal life
In real life, Christina Ricci doesn’t seem that different from her characters. We can deduce it from many of her scathing phrases of hers in interviews. In addition, she is not especially interested in the fame that her work generates and d Little is known about his private life.. He has said that in his adolescence he suffered from anorexia and that from a young age he was clear that he wanted to get married and start a family.
Thus, between the fact that in 2012 Ricci met the camera technician James Heerdegen on the set of the series Bread Amthat she herself was starring and that it was canceled after the first season, until they got married it would not take more than a year. In 2014 they welcomed her son, Freddie, into the world. However, behind closed doors, the relationship was not as idyllic as it seemed and the actress had to request a restraining order for mistreatment, divorcing in 2020.
However, shortly after she found love again in the arms of stylist Mark Hampton, whom she married in October 2021 and with whom she has had a girl they have named Cleopatra. It’s not Wednesday but, if we want a parallel, that’s the name of the headless doll with which this character played.
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