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Vinessa Shaw

Vinessa Shaw

Highest Rated: 89% 3:10 to Yuma (2007)

Lowest Rated: 7% Corky Romano (2001)

Birthday: Jul 19, 1976

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

A fair-haired player who got her start as a teen model, Vinessa Shaw has been a working actress since 1991 but her breakthrough role came in 1993 when she played Allison Watts in Disney's original "Hocus Pocus." A versatile performer, she convincingly portrayed characters that ranged from the angelic to the vampy and had a natural ease in front of the camera that aided her child acting career which has matured into a confident, compelling presence as an adult. A California native, Shaw was immersed in show business at an early age, with her mother and sister both working as actresses. She made her acting debut at age ten in the UCLA graduate film "My Day at Camp," and the following year, when next door neighbor and folk singer Peter Alsop needed a voice to accompany his, he looked no further than Shaw, who recorded and toured with him as part of the Karamazoff Brothers Circus. A career in modeling followed this, and landed Shaw on the covers of such magazines as Seventeen and British Vogue.

Highest rated movies

89% 3:10 to Yuma
84% Cold in July
82% Side Effects
82% Two Lovers
76% Eyes Wide Shut
74% Big Miracle 63% 12 Mighty Orphans 58% The Blazing World

Photos

Vinessa Shaw THE WEIGHT OF WATER, (aka LE POIDS DE L'EAU), Vinessa Shaw, 2000, © Lions Gate BADLAND, Vinessa Shaw, 2007. ©Arcangelo Entertainment 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, Vinessa Shaw, Josh Hartnett, 2002, (c) Miramax Vegas, Vinessa Shaw, 'Paiutes', Season 1, Ep. #11, 01/08/2013, ©CBS Vegas, Vinessa Shaw (L), Carrie-Anne Moss (R), 09/25/2012, ©CBS GARDEN PARTY, clockwise from foreground: Willa Holland, Erik Smith, Alexander Cendese, Richard Gunn, Vinessa Shaw, 2008. ©Roadside Attractions THE HILLS HAVE EYES, Vinessa Shaw, 2006, ©Fox Searchlight TWO LOVERS, Moni Moshonov (left), Vinessa Shaw (second from left), Isabella Rossellini (right of center), Joaquin Phoenix (second from right), 2008. ©Magnolia Pictures TWO LOVERS, from left: Joaquin Phoenix, Vinessa Shaw, 2008. ©Magnolia Pictures TWO LOVERS, from left: Vinessa Shaw, Joaquin Phoenix, 2008. ©Magnolia Pictures TWO LOVERS, from left: Joaquin Phoenix, Vinessa Shaw, 2008. ©Magnolia Pictures CLINICAL, VINESSA SHAW, 2017, ©NETFLIX Jimmy Kimmel Live, Vinessa Shaw, 01/26/2003, ©ABC CORKY ROMANO, Vinessa Shaw, Chris Kattan, 2001 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS, Vinessa Shaw, 2002. ©Miramax HOCUS POCUS, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, 1993, (c) Buena Vista EYES WIDE SHUT, Tom Cruise, 1999, (c)Warner Brothers/ THE HILLS HAVE EYES, Vinessa Shaw, 2006, ©Fox Searchlight TWO LOVERS, Vinessa Shaw, 2008. ©Magnolia Pictures
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
58% 83% The Blazing World Unknown (Character) - 2021
55% 24% We Need to Do Something Diane (Character) $12.4K 2021
63% 94% 12 Mighty Orphans Juanita Russell (Character) $3.7M 2021
No Score Yet 8% Family Blood Ellie (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sensum Lisa Mitchell (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 23% Clinical Dr. Jane Mathis (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bereave Penelope (Character) - 2015
14% 28% Electric Slide Mimi (Character) - 2014
33% 22% After the Fall Susan Scanlon (Character) - 2014
84% 67% Cold in July Ann Dane (Character) $414.6K 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dark Around the Stars Terry (Character) - 2013
No Score Yet 67% Siren Leigh (Character) - 2013
82% 70% Side Effects Deidre Banks (Character) $32.2M 2013
48% 23% Come Out and Play Beth (Character) $1.6K 2012
74% 64% Big Miracle Kelly Meyers (Character) $20.1M 2012
No Score Yet 53% Leave Amy (Character) - 2011
52% 54% Puncture Vicky (Character) $67.1K 2011
No Score Yet 15% Stag Night Brita (Character) - 2008
82% 59% Two Lovers Sandra Cohen (Character) $3.1M 2008
15% 25% Garden Party Sally St. Clair (Character) $19.9K 2008
16% 60% Badland Nora (Character) - 2007
89% 86% 3:10 to Yuma Emma Nelson (Character) $53.6M 2007
52% 58% The Hills Have Eyes Lynn Carter Bukowski (Character) $41.8M 2006
No Score Yet 53% Fathers and Sons Nell (Character) - 2005
No Score Yet 29% Bereft Molly (Character) - 2004
51% 47% Melinda and Melinda Stacey (Character) $3.8M 2004
39% 43% 40 Days and 40 Nights Nicole (Character) $37.9M 2002
7% 39% Corky Romano Agent Kate Russo (Character) $24.0M 2001
34% 38% The Weight of Water Anethe (Character) $102.6K 2000
76% 74% Eyes Wide Shut Domino (Character) $55.7M 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wayward Son Cordelia (Character) - 1999
No Score Yet 63% L.A. Without a Map Barbara (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 71% Coyote Summer Unknown (Character) - 1996
40% 72% Hocus Pocus Allison (Character) $55.9M 1993
14% 43% Ladybugs Kimberly Mullen (Character) $14.0M 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Game Silvia Yearwood (Character) - 1989

TV

Credit
72% 85% Ray Donovan Unknown (Guest Star) 2014
67% 67% Vegas Laura Savino (Guest Star) 2012-2013
No Score Yet 82% CSI: New York Unknown (Guest Star) 2012
90% 96% House Dr. Kelly Benedict (Guest Star) 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet New York Undercover Unknown (Guest Star) 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fallen Angels Jeannie Streeter (Character) 1993