- Born
- Birth nameVinessa Elizabeth Shaw
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpouseKristopher Gifford(2017 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenJack Hiroki Gifford
- ParentsLarry ShawSusan Damante
- RelativesNatalie Shaw(Sibling)
- Vinessa is named after her grandfather, Vincent.
- Is also a model.
- In 2017 she married her boyfriend of 9 years Kristopher Gifford.
- Grew up in Topanga Canyon in California.
- Vinessa's paternal grandfather was of Russian Jewish descent. The surname "Shaw" was originally "Schwartz". Vinessa's maternal grandfather was of Italian descent, with his family being from Calabria and Naples, Italy. Vinessa's other ancestry is Irish, German, English, 1/16th Spanish/Mexican, Swedish, Dutch, and French.
- 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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