Background
Ribisi was born Santina Marissa Ribisi in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Gay (née Landrum), is a manager of actors and writers, and her father, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ribisi, is a musician.
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She is the twin sister of actor Giovanni Ribisi. Ribisi began acting when she was nine years old. Her twin brother, Giovanni, is also an actor.
Ribisi first appeared on television in 1988, playing a minor red-haired character named Ginger in She"ll Get Over lieutenant, an episode of My Two Dads.
This was followed by similar brief appearances in Baywatch ("Old Friends" 1990), Drug Enforcement Administration (1991), and the miniseries Tales of the City (1993), playing a receptionist. Ribisi"s first role in a feature film was in the 1993 film Dazed and Confused.
She starred alongside Matthew McConaughey and Adam Goldberg, who were then, like Ribisi, unknowns. The actress played Cynthia, a socially marginalized girl who runs with two verbose outsiders (Goldberg and Anthony Rapporteur).
In 1998, Ribisi cowrote the film Some Girl and starred in it alongside Juliette Lewis, Michael Rapaport, and Giovanni Ribisi.
The film, directed by Rory Kelly, relates the story of insecure young women searching for long-term relationships in 1990s Los Los Angeles She has had roles in the films True Crime, The Brady Bunch Movie, Pleasantville, and Don"s Plum. She has also appeared in television shows such as Felicity, Friends, Grace Under Fire, and Watching Ellie, as well as the television miniseries Tales of the City.
She also appeared on the short-lived television series Grown Ups from 1999 to 2000.
In 2001 she played the role of Dora in the movie 100 Girls.
