Christina Ricci
Ricci was born in Santa Monica, California, the fourth child of Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and psychiatrist, and Sarah Murdoch, a former Ford model and real estate agent. Regarding her ancestry, Ricci has stated that “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.”
Her family was reasonably financially comfortable from its inception; her father, before becoming a lawyer, was a psychiatrist who specialized in shrieking therapy. While a child, Christina could hear the therapies through the vents in her room, and would act them out in front of her mother. The family moved to Montclair, New Jersey, where she grew up attending Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, and Montclair High School as well as the Morristown-Beard School . After one year she left the high school for a private school in New York City (the Professional Children’s School), which was also attended by various other celebrities such as Sarah Michelle Gellar, Macaulay Culkin, and Jerry O’Connell.. Her siblings are Rafael (born 1971), Dante (born 1974), and Pia (born 1976). When her father and her mother eventually separated in 1993, Ricci stayed with her mother, who took custody of the children. Ricci has not spoken to her father since this took place in 1993. Of her siblings, she is closest to her brother Rafael. After her parents’ divorce, Ricci experimented with self-injury, and began cutting herself as a child to prove she can take risks – Ricci stated that this problem affected her self esteem as a young teenager.
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Christian Bale was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. He is the youngest of four children. His parents are entrepreneur, commercial pilot and talent manager David Bale and circus clown and performer Jenny James, both English. Bale spent his childhood in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Portugal, and the United States. He lived in a house boat for a small amount of time. In 1976, when Christian was two years old, the Bale family left Wales. Bale’s family settled for four years in Bournemouth, where he attended Bournemouth School and participated actively in rugby. Christian has described his childhood, with respect to his mother being in the circus, as interesting. He recalled his first kiss was with an acrobat named Barta. As a child, he trained in ballet and on guitar. His sister Louise’s work in theatre also influenced his decision to become an actor. David Bale was very supportive of Christian’s acting. He resigned from his job as a commercial pilot to travel and manage Christian’s burgeoning career. David Bale, later married feminist icon Gloria Steinem on September 3, 2000. He died on December 30, 2003, from brain lymphoma at the age of 62.
Norris was born in Ryan, Oklahoma, the son of Wilma (Scarberry), who was eighteen when Norris was born, and Ray Norris, a truck and bus driver and mechanic. Norris’s paternal grandfather (an immigrant) and maternal grandmother were Irish, while his paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather were Cherokee Native Americans. Norris was named after Carlos Berry, his father’s minister. He has two younger brothers, Weiland (deceased) and Aaron (a Hollywood producer). When Norris was ten, his parents divorced, and he later relocated to Prairie Village, Kansas and then Torrance, California with his mother and brothers. Norris describes his childhood as downbeat. He was nonathletic, shy, and scholastically mediocre. Other children taunted him about his mixed ethnicity, and Norris daydreamed about beating up his tormentors. Norris mentioned in his autobiography that his father had a very serious problem with drinking and “wasn’t there” a lot for him growing up. Norris admitted that he loved his father but did not like him. However, he professed that he only felt pity for the man because “that was just how he was, and he missed so much.”
Walken was born Ronald Walken (named after actor Ronald Colman) in Queens, New York. His father, Paul Walken, was a German immigrant, and his mother, Rosalie, was a Scottish immigrant; both of his parents were bakers. Walken worked in the family bakery, 
