Christina Ricci
Ricci in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: February 12, 1980
Ethnicity: Irish (at least 62.5%), Italian (25%), smaller amounts of Scottish and English
Christina Ricci is an American actress. She has starred in the films Mermaids, The Addams Family (as Wednesday Addams), Now and Then, Casper (1995), Sleepy Hollow, The Ice Storm, Buffalo ’66, Pecker, The Opposite of Sex, Prozac Nation, Pumpkin, Anything Else, Monster, Cursed, Black Snake Moan, and Speed Racer, and on the show Yellowjackets, among other works. She is the national spokesperson for the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN).
Christina is the daughter of Sarah and Ralph Ricci. She was raised partly in Montclair, New Jersey. She has stated:
The Italian blood has been bred out of me. There’s an Italian four or five generations back who married an Irish woman and they all had sons. So they married more Irish women, there were more sons, and more Irish women. Now I’m basically Scots-Irish.
In fact, Christina’s father is of half Italian ancestry. The rest of her lineage is at least five eighths Irish.
Christina is married to hairstylist Mark Hampton. She has a son with her former husband, dolly grip James Heerdegen; and a daughter with Mark.
Christina’s paternal grandfather was Victor Edward Ricci (the son of Henry Ricci and Valentina Fiorentino/Fiorentini). Victor was born in New York, to Italian parents, from Aulla, Province of Massa and Carrara, Tuscany.
Christina’s paternal grandmother was Charlotte Mae Ryan (the daughter of Patrick James Ryan and Helena J. Shay). Charlotte was born in New York. Patrick was born in Ireland, the son of Bernard Ryan and Catherine McDonald. Helena was born in New York, of Irish descent, and was the daughter of Timothy Shay and Mary Brennan.
Christina’s maternal grandfather was Paul Stein Murdoch/Murdock (the son of John T. Murdoch and Mary Bridget Thornton). Paul was born in Newark, New Jersey. John was the son of Edward Eli Murdoch/Murdock and Catherine/Kate Plowman, and had deep roots in the U.S. Mary was born in New Jersey, to Irish parents.
Christina’s maternal grandmother was Mary Alice Keaveny (the daughter of Francis Keaveny and Ann McGowan). Mary was born in Ireland, or in New Jersey, of Irish parentage.
Sources: Genealogy of Christina Ricci (focusing on her father’s side) – https://www.geni.com
Christina’s paternal grandmother, Charlotte Mae Ryan, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marriage record of Christina’s maternal grandparents, Paul Stein Murdoch/Murdock and Mary Alice Keaveny – https://www.familysearch.org
What fascinates me are all these Americans that claim to have Irish ancestry just because an ancestor was born there! Irish people are a huge mix of celt, Scot, Spanish and mostly English blood.
Irish don’t have any Spanish. There is Scots, Welsh and English but that is the same for Scotland, Wales and England as well. There is a lot of Irish blood in those places.
i think he means many celtic places in the british isles carry a mediterranean component which is thought to have been brought over from the spanish armada invasions, which i personally don’t believe. Spanish and portuguese were initially celtic peoples whom were also invaded by germanics much like the british isles but the iberian peninsula was then more recently invaded heavily by the moors from north africa whom carried arabid and negroid blood so that would be the main reason why they vary in appearance to the brits and other parts of europe which are inhabited by fair people
There’s no evidence of that. In genetic testing, it doesn’t look like the British and the Irish have any more Iberian ancestry than your typical Northwestern European. The fact some of them have dark hair doesn’t prove a thing. A single people may have more than just one phenotype, even if they’re not mixed.
Utter nonsense.Where do people like you get this bogus info from?
Alpinid (predominately).
She should embrace and identify with her Italian heritage
So she should embrace her great great grandfather that had nothing to do with her day to day upbringing because she has dark hair? Interesting.
She should still embrace her Italian heritage. Obviously those Italian roots were strong she still looks more Italian than anything.
There’s one point how one looks and another, what surrounding forms one’s personality. When all people around her were Irish, then her Italian “heritage” may be just the surface – her looks, and she may think and feel completely like an Irish.