I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your self-consciousness, you can’t really be present in a situation. For example, if you’re at The Louvre, but you’re thinking about how much you hate your jeans, you’re not really at The Louvre. So in your memory, when you look back, you’re always going to be like, “I was wearing those jeans I hated”. And you’re not going to remember anything else.

During one of her skits Christina Ricci accidentally punched actress Ana Gasteyer in the face. Her siblings are Rafael (born 1971) Dante (born 1974) and Pia (born 1976). After one year Christina Ricci left the high school for the Professional Children's School in New York City.

In 2011–12 Christina Ricci played Maggie Ryan in the television show Pan Am. Ricci received initial recognition and praise as a child star for her performance as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) and her role as Kat Harvey in Casper (1995). In 2006 Ricci was nominated for an Emmy award for her role as a paramedic in the ABC drama Grey's Anatomy.