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Virgin Territory
Virgin Territory (2007) is a David Leland comedy-drama loosely based on Boccaccio's Decameron, starring Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, and Tim Roth in plague-era Tuscany; it cost $38 million, grossed about $5.4 million, and went straight to US DVD.
Virginia Admiral
Virginia Admiral, also known as Virginia De Niro, was an American painter and poet whose abstract work entered the Museum of Modern Art's collection in 1942.
Virginia Cherrill
Virginia Cherrill (1908–1996), American actress and Countess of Jersey, played the blind flower girl in Chaplin's City Lights (1931), her debut; also Cary Grant's first wife (1934–1935).
Virginia Christine
Virginia Christine (1920–1996), American character actress born in Stanton, Iowa; played Ananka in The Mummy's Curse and roles in High Noon and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and was Mrs. Olson in 21 years of Folgers coffee commercials.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (1822–1847), Edgar Allan Poe's first cousin and wife, married him publicly in Richmond in 1836 at age 13; died of tuberculosis at Fordham, New York, January 30, 1847, aged 24.
Virginia Fonseca
Virginia Fonseca (Virginia Pimenta da Fonseca Serrão Costa, born 1999, Danbury, Connecticut) is a Brazilian-American influencer, SBT host, and WePink cosmetics founder; about 56 million Instagram followers, CPI das Bets testimony, and 2026 Blaze advertising court restrictions.
Virginia Gardner
Virginia Gardner (Virginia Elizabeth Gardner, born 1995, Sacramento) is an American actress known as Karolina Dean in Marvel's Runaways (2017–2019) and for Project Almanac, Halloween (2018), and Fall (2022).
Virginia Gregg
Virginia Gregg, born Virginia Lee Gregg, was an American character actress in radio, television, and film, best known as the voice of Norman Bates's mother in Psycho.
Virginia Hey
Virginia Hey (born 1952, some records 1958) is an Australian former actress and model known as Pa'u Zotoh Zhaan in Farscape, the Warrior Woman in Mad Max 2, and Rubavitch in The Living Daylights.
Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen, American actress born 1961 in Chicago, sister of Michael Madsen; known for Candyman (1992), Princess Irulan in Dune (1984), and her Oscar-nominated Maya in Sideways (2004).
Virginia Mayo
Virginia Mayo, born Virginia Clara Jones, was an American film actress and a leading Warner Bros. star of the late 1940s and 1950s, remembered for White Heat (1949).
Virginia McKenna
Dame Virginia Anne McKenna DBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British actress and wildlife campaigner, BAFTA winner for A Town Like Alice, star of Born Free as Joy Adamson, and co-founder of the Born Free Foundation.
Virginia Rappe
Virginia Rappe (Virginia Caroline Rapp, 1891-1921), American silent film actress and model who died of peritonitis after a ruptured bladder at Roscoe Arbuckle's 1921 St. Francis Hotel party; Arbuckle was acquitted after three manslaughter trials.
Virginia Weidler
Virginia Weidler was an American child film actress who appeared in roughly 40 motion pictures between 1933 and 1945. She is best known for her role in The Philadelphia Story.
Virginia Williams
Virginia Williams (born 1978, Memphis) is an American TV actress known for dual roles in Netflix's Teenage Bounty Hunters, CJ on Fuller House, Lauren Reed on Fairly Legal, and Charity on Charmed; distinct from the documentary filmmaker of the same name.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen, 1882–1941), English modernist novelist, essayist, and Hogarth Press co-founder; author of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and A Room of One's Own; pioneer of stream-of-consciousness and free indirect discourse.
Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
Virginia Woolf's Night and Day (2026 film), aka Night & Day, is Tina Gharavi's 95-minute adaptation of Woolf's 1919 novel, starring Haley Bennett as astronomer Katharine Hilbery; premiered at SXSW London, released June 19, 2026 in the UK.
Virginie Efira
Virginie Efira, Belgian-born French actress (born 1977, Brussels), former TV host of Nouvelle Star; César Best Actress 2023 for Revoir Paris and shared 2026 Cannes Best Actress for Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden.
Virginie Ledoyen
Virginie Ledoyen (Virginie Fernandez), French actress born 1976 in Aubervilliers, star of Les Marmottes, The Beach and 8 Women; three César most-promising nominations and recurring roles with Ozon, Jacquot, Mouret, and Donzelli.
Virgo Four (group)
Virgo Four, also released as Virgo, is an American house duo from Chicago formed by Merwyn Sanders and Eric Lewis, whose 1989 album Virgo became a deep house landmark.
Virgoun
Virgoun, full name Virgoun Putra Tambunan, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter, vocalist and co-founder of the pop-punk band Last Child, best known for his 2016 solo hit 'Surat Cinta Untuk Starla'.
Viridiana
Viridiana (1961) is Luis Buñuel's Spanish-Mexican drama about a novice nun, her lecherous uncle, and a household of beggars; it won the 1961 Cannes Palme d'Or, was denounced by the Vatican, and banned in Franco's Spain until 1977.
Virna Lisi
Virna Lisi (Virna Pieralisi, 1936–2014) was an Italian film and television actress who left a Paramount Hollywood contract after How to Murder Your Wife, declining Barbarella, and won the 1994 Cannes Best Actress award for La reine Margot.
Virtual band
Virtual band: a music group whose members are fictional animated or digital characters, with real musicians recording behind the scenes. Key names: Gorillaz (Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett), Hatsune Miku, PLAVE. Distinguished from hologram revivals of real artists by invented characters.
Virtual Insanity
Virtual Insanity is a 1996 Jamiroquai song by Jay Kay and Toby Smith from Travelling Without Moving. UK chart peak 3; its Jonathan Glazer moving-room video won four 1997 MTV VMAs and a 1998 Grammy.
Virtual Riot
Virtual Riot, real name Valentin Brunn, is a German dubstep producer and DJ active since 2011, known for genre-defining sound design and as Beatport's best-selling dubstep artist.
Virtual Riot b2b Barely Alive
Virtual Riot b2b Barely Alive is a back-to-back DJ pairing of German dubstep producer Virtual Riot (Valentin Brunn) and American act Barely Alive, longtime artists on Disciple Recordings.
Virtual Studio Technology
Virtual Studio Technology (VST), Steinberg's 1996 audio plug-in interface, integrates software synths and effects into DAWs; current VST 3 (2008) is MIT-licensed, cross-platform, and competes with AU, AAX, and CLAP.
Virtual water
Virtual water is the water consumed in producing a traded commodity, a term coined by J. A. Allan around 1993 and central to water-security debates.
Virtual XI
Virtual XI, Iron Maiden's eleventh studio album (EMI, March 23, 1998), the second and last with vocalist Blaze Bayley, produced by Steve Harris, peaking at No. 16 UK and ending the Blaze era.