Inside Christina Ricci's Dating History

Although Christina Ricci has a total of 86 acting credits to her name, many people still think of her as the young and sweet Wednesday Addams in the 1991 version of "The Addams Family" as well as its subsequent sequels — or perhaps as the leading lady in the 1995 cult classic "Casper" (via IMDb). Both of the roles — which she played at age 10 and 15, respectively — solidified the young actress as a bona fide teen icon and the queen of spooky season.

Only a couple of years later, Ricci earned herself a Golden Globe nomination for her role in "The Opposite of Sex," which marked a significant turn in her career. Although her roles remained thematically dark, she grew out of the cute and eccentric little girl trope and into the "brooding, hyper-sexualized teenager," per Celeb Answers. As the publication writes, "From 1997 on, Ricci delved into characters that dealt with material such as drugs, sex, and kidnapping. In the public eye, she was a beloved child star; however, as she matured, she wanted to set herself apart from her childish persona." But it wasn't just her fictional roles that grew up, as the actress herself was also coming into her own during this time.

Along with taking on more mature roles, Ricci also began trying her hand at producing and began getting involved in activism work. She also embarked on a series of relationships. Here's a look inside each one.

In 1997, it was rumored that Christina Ricci dated the actor, director, model, painter, musician, and motoroycle racer Vincent Gallo, who was nearly 20 years her senior (via Famous Fix). Gallo wrote, directed, scored, and starred in the indie film "Buffalo '66," which also featured a teenaged Ricci.

Although rumors of a romance swirled at the time, especially as Gallo had made many comments about having a crush on Ricci prior to casting her, he later swallowed his words. Two years after the movie was released, he told a New York Post columnist that "She's an ungrateful c***," and "She's basically a puppet. I told her what to do, and she did it" (via ABC News). All we can say is: yikes. Major yikes.

In 2015, Ricci reflected on the entire experience to HuffPost. "That was very confusing because it was my first movie away from home, or without my mother," she said. " [Gallo] didn't want my mom to come. He wanted me to be up there by myself. I was 17 and I had never worked with anyone like this and I had never worked on a movie that was that low-budget before. I'd always worked on things where the more money, the more structure, the more protections in place, all this stuff. But I spent most of that movie trapped in a car with a raving lunatic." So it's safe to say the dislike is mutual.

When Christina Ricci and Kick Curry called it quits, she continued to keep her dating game confined to Hollywood, as she began seeing actor Owen Benjamin. According to Famous Fix, they began dating in March of 2008 and got engaged in 2009. However, they broke off the relationship that same year.

Ricci got right back on the saddle and started dating photographer Curtis Buchanan in October of 2009. After they parted ways in May of 2011, Ricci met a dolly grip operator and cinematographer by the name of James Heerdegen on the set of her ABC show "Pan Am." According to Famous Fix, the pair got married in 2013 and welcomed their son Freddie the following summer.

In 2017, Ricci spoke to Net-A-Porter's The Edit about the ways in which marriage and motherhood changed her. "Marriage shows you your flaws in how you deal with things and having a child forces you to grow up at the speed of light," she said (per Us Weekly). "I'm a completely different person than I was before I had my child."

According to Radar, Ricci filed for divorce from Heerdegen in 2020, citing "irreconcilable differences" in the petition.