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Vinessa Shaw

  • Actress
  • Director
  • Producer
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000369
Vinessa Shaw at Tribeca Film Festival, June 14, 2021
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Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw is an American film actress and model. She began her career as a child actor, and had her break-out role in Disney's 1993 Halloween comedy-fantasy film Hocus Pocus. Shaw also appeared in Ladybugs (1992) and L.A. Without a Map (1998). While attending Barnard College, Shaw was cast in a supporting role in Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), after which she decided to pursue acting into her adulthood. Subsequent roles include in the comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002), and the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror film The Hills Have Eyes. She was a supporting cast member in the Showtime drama Ray Donovan, and stars as Dr. Jane Mathis in the 2017 horror thriller Clinical.
BornJuly 19, 1976
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BornJuly 19, 1976
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,000369
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    • Awards
      • 10 nominations total

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    Known for

    Russell Crowe and Christian Bale in 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
    3:10 to Yuma
    7.6
    • Emma Nelson
    • 2007
    Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy in Hocus Pocus (1993)
    Hocus Pocus
    6.9
    • Allison Watts
    • 1993
    Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
    Eyes Wide Shut
    7.5
    • Domino
    • 1999
    Josh Hartnett in 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)
    40 Days and 40 Nights
    5.6
    • Nicole
    • 2002

    Credits

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    Actress



    • Nickels
      • Lorraine Diller
      • Post-production
    • The Wilderness
      • Post-production
    • PH-1
      • Monica Hall
      • Post-production



    • Yellowstone (2018)
      Yellowstone
      8.6
      TV Series
      • Dr. Everly
      • 2024
    • Savannah Lee Smith, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Zac Burgess in Cruel Intentions (2024)
      Cruel Intentions
      5.5
      TV Series
      • Dr. Deirdre Dawson
      • 2024
    • Swagger (2021)
      Swagger
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Diane
      • 2023
    • We Need to Do Something (2021)
      We Need to Do Something
      4.5
      • Diane
      • 2021
    • Martin Sheen and Luke Wilson in 12 Mighty Orphans (2021)
      12 Mighty Orphans
      6.9
      • Juanita Russell
      • 2021
    • The Blazing World (2021)
      The Blazing World
      4.4
      • Alice Winter
      • 2021
    • Vinessa Shaw in Family Blood (2018)
      Family Blood
      4.2
      • Ellie
      • 2018
    • Sensum
      4.5
      Short
      • Lisa Mitchell
      • 2017
    • Vinessa Shaw and India Eisley in Clinical (2017)
      Clinical
      5.1
      • Dr. Jane Mathis
      • 2017
    • Malcolm McDowell, Keith Carradine, Jane Seymour, and Vinessa Shaw in Bereave (2015)
      Bereave
      5.7
      • Penelope
      • 2015
    • Liev Schreiber in Ray Donovan (2013)
      Ray Donovan
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Kate McPherson
      • 2014
    • Electric Slide (2014)
      Electric Slide
      4.6
      • Mimi
      • 2014
    • Chloë Sevigny in Those Who Kill (2014)
      Those Who Kill
      7.1
      TV Series
      • Angela Early
      • 2014
    • After the Fall (2014)
      After the Fall
      5.1
      • Susan Scanlon
      • 2014
    • Don Johnson, Sam Shepard, and Michael C. Hall in Cold in July (2014)
      Cold in July
      6.7
      • Ann
      • 2014

    Director



    • Vana Bell and Vassiliki Ellwood Yiagazis in Crossing the Bar (2016)
      Crossing the Bar
      Short
      • Director
      • 2016

    Producer



    • We Need to Do Something (2021)
      We Need to Do Something
      4.5
      • co-executive producer
      • 2021

    Videos27

    Hocus Pocus: Blu-Ray
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    Two Lovers
    Clip 1:50
    Two Lovers
    Two Lovers
    Clip 1:05
    Two Lovers
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    • Height
      • 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
    • Born
      • July 19, 1976
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Spouse
      • Kristopher Gifford2017 - present (1 child)
    • Children
      • Jack Hiroki Gifford
    • Parents
        Larry Shaw
    • Relatives
      • Natalie Shaw(Sibling)
    • Other works
      Print ad for Calvin Klein Eyewear (2000)
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      • 3 Interviews
      • 3 Articles
      • 3 Pictorials
      • 2 Magazine Cover Photos

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      Vinessa is named after her grandfather, Vincent.
    • Quotes
      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))

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