Vinessa Shaw

Vinessa Shaw

Born: July 19, 1976
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw (born July 19, 1976) is an American actress and model. Shaw has starred in numerous motion pictures since the early 1990s, and is probably most well-known for her performances in Disney's 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus, Ladybugs, the 2006 remake of Wes Craven's horror picture The Hills Have Eyes, as well as the 2008 romance film Two Lovers, in which she starred alongside Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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The Blazing World
Title: The Blazing World
Character: Alice Winter
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the brink of suicide. Through an epic journey down the smokiest and scariest corridors of her imagination, she tries to exorcise the demons pushing her closer and closer to the edge.
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We Need to Do Something
Title: We Need to Do Something
Character: Diane
Released: September 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Seeking shelter from a storm, a family finds themselves trapped in a bathroom for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls.
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12 Mighty Orphans
Title: 12 Mighty Orphans
Character: Juanita Russell
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
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Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Title: Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Join us for a night of celebration, packed with celebrity guests and Hocus Pocus throwbacks, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
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Family Blood
Title: Family Blood
Character: Ellie
Released: March 16, 2018
Type: Movie
Ellie, a recovering drug addict, has just moved to a new city with her two teenage children. She has struggled to stay sober in the past and is determined to make it work this time, finding a stable job and regularly attending her meetings. Unfortunately, new friends, a new job, and the chance of a new life, can’t keep Ellie from slipping once again. Her life changes when she meets Christopher – a different kind of addict – which forces her daughter and son to accept a new version of Ellie.
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Sensum
Title: Sensum
Character: Lisa Mitchell
Released: July 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A badly injured man gets new hope with and experimental procedure after losing all touch sensation in an accident.
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Clinical
Title: Clinical
Character: Dr. Jane Mathis
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
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Bereave
Title: Bereave
Character: Penelope
Released: March 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Fatally ill, Garvey thinks he has figured out how to die alone. But when his beloved wife Evelyn goes missing on their anniversary, he must live to save her.
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Cold in July
Title: Cold in July
Character: Ann Dane
Released: May 23, 2014
Type: Movie
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
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Electric Slide
Title: Electric Slide
Character: Mimi
Released: April 22, 2014
Type: Movie
A heightened homage to the City of Angels, Electric Slide riffs on the real-life story of Eddie Dodson, the notorious "Gentleman Bank Robber." With a debonair sophistication and a serious talent for flirt, Dodson managed to lure money from mesmerized female tellers at over 60 banks during an epic spree in the 1980s.
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After the Fall
Title: After the Fall
Character: Susan
Released: February 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
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Siren
Title: Siren
Character: Leigh
Released: October 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Leigh has lived a reclusive existence in a secluded old home on the outskirts of town for her entire adult life. You see, Leigh has excreted extremely potent pheromones.
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Dark Around the Stars
Title: Dark Around the Stars
Character: Terry
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Glen is on a drunken road trip when he plots to commit suicide on his birthday. His decision sends him on a spirited adventure.....
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Title: Ray Donovan
Character: Kate McPherson
Released: June 30, 2013
Type: TV
Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
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Side Effects
Title: Side Effects
Character: Dierdre Banks
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
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Title: Vegas
Character: Laura Savino
Released: September 25, 2012
Type: TV
Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor appeals to his sense of duty to look into a murder of a casino worker – and so begins Lamb’s clash with Vincent Savino, a ruthless Chicago gangster who plans to make Vegas his own.
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Come Out and Play
Title: Come Out and Play
Character: Beth
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A couple take a vacation to a remote island - their last holiday together before they become parents. Soon after their arrival, they notice that no adults seem to be present - an observation that quickly presents a nightmarish reality.
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Big Miracle
Title: Big Miracle
Character: Kelly Meyers
Released: February 2, 2012
Type: Movie
A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.
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Puncture
Title: Puncture
Character: Nurse Vicky Rogers
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.
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Leave
Title: Leave
Character: Amy
Released: May 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry decides to go to a remote second home to begin work on his next novel, a thriller. While on his way there he encounters a strangely familiar drifter who confronts him with information that threatens to turn everything he knows to be true, upside down. Written by producer
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Birthday Suit
Title: Birthday Suit
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
A spoof behind-the-scenes look at Joe Swanberg's (non-existent) new film, Birthday Suit, about a young couple's "on again, off again" sexual relationship. The (non-existent) film uses cutting edge technology developed at the WETA Workshop to create the illusion of graphic sexual content.
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Two Lovers
Title: Two Lovers
Character: Sandra
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A depressed man moves back in with his parents following a recent heartbreak and finds himself with two women.
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Garden Party
Title: Garden Party
Character: Sally St. Claire
Released: July 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Are you young, sexually confused, just trying to get by? Do you sing, dance or possess some other talent? Welcome to the Garden Party. At the center of the story is 15-year-old April. She is running from one bad situation into another, hoping to find an answer that doesn't involve taking off her clothes.
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Stag Night
Title: Stag Night
Character: Brita
Released: June 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Four guys on a bachelor party get off the subway at a station that shut down in the 70's and, after watching a transit cop get brutally murdered, find themselves running for their lives beneath the streets of NY.
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Badland
Title: Badland
Character: Nora Rice
Released: November 30, 2007
Type: Movie
Jerry (Jamie Draven) was an idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he was later deployed to Iraq, Jerry was an older man, a father of three and embittered by broken promises and unfulfilled desires. When Jerry returns from Iraq he has been transformed by horrors that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of him and his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic and unhappy. When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he had experienced in combat could have prepared him for.
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3:10 to Yuma
Title: 3:10 to Yuma
Character: Emmy Nelson
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
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The Hills Have Eyes
Title: The Hills Have Eyes
Character: Lynn
Released: March 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
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Fathers and Sons
Title: Fathers and Sons
Character: Nell
Released: June 2, 2005
Type: Movie
Intertwined tales of three families who grow up on the same street, focusing on the relationship of fathers and sons. The first section features Anthony and Jenny and traces the father-son bond that develops between Anthony and his newborn son over 30 years. The second story centers on the affairs of an airline pilot who shares a house but not a life with his wife. He crosses paths with an unusual woman and spends an extraordinary night with his son. The final chapter follows the homecoming of Elliot to his estranged family. As his father dies, Elliot meets and falls in love with a woman who sees past his tough-guy exterior.
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Title: House
Character: Dr. Kelly Benedict
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Melinda and Melinda
Title: Melinda and Melinda
Character: Stacey
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
While dining out with friends, Sy suggests the difficulty of separating comedy from tragedy. To illustrate his point, he tells his guests two parallel stories about Melinda ; both versions have the same basic elements, but one take on her state of affairs leans toward levity, while the other is full of anguish. Each story involves Melinda coping with a recent divorce through substance abuse while beginning a romantic relationship with a close friend's husband.
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Bereft
Title: Bereft
Character: Molly
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
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40 Days and 40 Nights
Title: 40 Days and 40 Nights
Character: Nicole
Released: March 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Matt Sullivan's last big relationship ended in disaster and ever since his heart's been aching and his commitment's been lacking. Then came Lent, that time of year when everybody gives something up. That's when Matt decides to go where no man's gone before and make a vow: No sex. Whatsoever. For 40 straight days. At first he has everything under control. That is until the woman of his dreams, Erica, walks into his life.
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Corky Romano
Title: Corky Romano
Character: Agent Kate Russo
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
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The Weight of Water
Title: The Weight of Water
Character: Anethe Christenson
Released: September 25, 2000
Type: Movie
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
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The 70s
Title: The 70s
Character: Eileen Wells
Released: April 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Four friends, fresh from tragedy at Kent Sate, graduate from college and begin their adult lives during the turbulent 1970s. But Dexter (Guy Torry), Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), Byron (Brad Rowe) and Christie (Amy Smart) find their paths are heading in different directions. Namely, toward the Black Panthers, the feminist movement, the Watergate Scandal and the Hustle. Peter Werner directs this poignant television miniseries originally aired on NBC.
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Wayward Son
Title: Wayward Son
Character: Cordelia
Released: September 20, 1999
Type: Movie
Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.) is suddenly and inexplicably released from jail after serving part of a life sentence on a trumped up charge for murder. He heads back for Georgia to reclaim his life and finds himself staying with farmer Ben Alexander (Pete Postlethwaite). Initially, Ben's family is mistrustful of the ex-con, but slowly they begin to warm to him, particularly Ben's fragile daughter Wesley (Patricia Clarkson). After witnessing the murder of a black worker at the hands of his drunken white racist boss, Jesse vows to make things right.
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Eyes Wide Shut
Title: Eyes Wide Shut
Character: Domino
Released: July 16, 1999
Type: Movie
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
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L.A. Without a Map
Title: L.A. Without a Map
Character: Barbara
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
An aspiring Hollywood actress, on a visit to a charming North England town, has a brief fling with the town undertaker, who also writes obituaries for the local paper. Returning home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant, she tells everyone about the handsome "writer" she met on her trip. Unfortunately, he decides to follow her back to Hollywood, setting up the expected light romantic comedy with asides as the newcomer gains experience about the goings on in Hollywood.
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Coyote Summer
Title: Coyote Summer
Character: Callie Carpenter
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Teenage Callie has a wild streak. When her mother goes to London on business, she sends Callie to her sister's ranch for a dose of hard work and responsibility. Callie is sullen, at first, naturally, but perks up at the sight of a beautiful but wild black horse. When she overhears of the horse's destruction, due to his inability to be tamed, she arranges to steal the horse with a fellow ranch hand named Rafe. In hiding, the two begin to calm the horse and start his training. It works. But, will their hideaway be discovered?
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Title: McKenna
Released: September 15, 1994
Type: TV
McKenna was a short-lived TV series that aired on ABC during the 1994–1995 season. It starred Chad Everett and Jennifer Love Hewitt. The series revolved around Brick McKenna, who returned to Oregon to take over his brother's business, McKenna Outfitters, after his death. He runs the business with his brother's widow, Leigh, and his father, Jack. His sister, Cassidy, and his niece and nephew, Rose and Harry, help out.
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Title: New York Undercover
Released: September 8, 1994
Type: TV
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York City's Fourth Precinct who were assigned to investigate various crimes and gang-related cases.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Jeannie Streeter
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: TV
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
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Hocus Pocus
Title: Hocus Pocus
Character: Allison
Released: July 16, 1993
Type: Movie
After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
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Ladybugs
Title: Ladybugs
Character: Kimberly Mullen
Released: March 27, 1992
Type: Movie
To climb the corporate ladder to success, a businessman agrees to coach his company's all-girl soccer team with the help of his secret weapon: his fiancee's son.
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Title: The Torkelsons
Character: Meredith Reed
Released: September 21, 1991
Type: TV
Millicent Torkelson does what she can to hold her family together as it shrinks to just her and her children after her husband Randy abandons the family.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Gloria Bryce
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Home Sweet Home
Title: Home Sweet Home
Character: Angel Bradley
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...