Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American film actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s and is currently a supporting cast member in the Showtime Drama Ray Donovan. Her breakout role was in Disney's 1993 Halloween-set film Hocus Pocus...
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Movies
The Hills Have Eyes, Hocus Pocus, Two Lovers, Eyes Wide Shut, 40 Days and 40 Nights, Side Effects, 3:10 to Yuma, Cold in July, Corky Romano, Puncture, Ladybugs, Big Miracle, Melinda and Melinda, Come Out And Play, After the Fall, Stag Night, L.A. Without a Map, The Weight of Water, Garden Party, Coy...
TV Shows
McKenna
Star Sign
Cancer
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I would never see this movie because I'm frightened of horror movies. Ever since I was a kid, my friends who always wanted to see them would mortify me by showing me clips from a movie, and I would have to run in the other room, call my parents, and go home -- that kind of thing. (on her film The Hills Have Eyes (2006))
Vinessa's paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent. The surname "Shaw" was originally "Schwartz". Vinessa's paternal grandmother had German, Irish, English, and Mexican ancestry. Vinessa's maternal grandfather was of Italian descent, with his family being from Calabria and Naples, Italy. Vinessa's maternal grandmother was of Swedish and Irish ancestry.
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Engaged to behind-the-scenes film artist Kristopher Gifford. [February 2008]
$500 Thousand
