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Vanessa Angel (English actress)
Vanessa Madeline Angel (born 1966, London) is an English model-turned-actress, Lisa in USA's Weird Science and Claudia in Kingpin, and the original choice for Xena before Lucy Lawless was cast.
Vanessa Bayer
Vanessa Bayer (born 1981, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comedian and actress, an SNL cast member 2010–2017 (149 episodes, seven seasons) known for Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy and her Miley Cyrus impression, leukemia survivor, and co-creator and star of Showtime's I Love That for You.
Vanessa Bell Calloway
Vanessa Bell Calloway (born 1957, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress and dancer, original Broadway Dreamgirls cast member, star of Coming to America, Under One Roof, Saints & Sinners, and Southside with You.
Vanessa Blue
Vanessa Blue, born Tanya Marki Faulkner in 1974, American adult film performer and director, Domina X pseudonym, AVN Award 2005 for Black Region series, Urban X Hall of Fame 2009.
Vanessa del Rio
Vanessa del Rio, born Ana Maria Sanchez in 1952 in Harlem, is a retired American adult film actress regarded as the industry's first major Latina star, with over 100 films from 1974 and a 2007 Taschen memoir.
Vanessa Emme
Vanessa Emme is an Irish stage and television actress, a 2014 Lir Academy graduate, known as DS Layla Walsh in The Chelsea Detective (2023–present), Abby Stone in Dublin Murders, and Rachel Donleavy in Three Families.
Vanessa Estelle Williams
Vanessa Estelle Williams (born 1963), Brooklyn-born actress distinct from singer Vanessa L. Williams; film debut as Keisha in New Jack City (1991), Anne-Marie McCoy in Candyman (1992, 2021), and NAACP Image Award winner for Soul Food.
Vanessa Feltz
Vanessa Feltz (born 1962, London) is a British broadcaster and TV presenter, host of ITV's Vanessa (1994–1998), BBC Radio 2 Early Breakfast (2011–2022), TalkTV, LBC, and Channel 5's The Vanessa Show (2025).
Vanessa Ferlito
Vanessa Ferlito, American actress born in Brooklyn, known for Aiden Burn in CSI: NY, Claudia Hernandez in 24, Charlie DeMarco in Graceland, Tammy Gregorio in NCIS: New Orleans, and roles in Death Proof and Griselda.
Vanessa Fisk
Vanessa Fisk (Vanessa Marianna), also Lady Fisk, is Marvel Comics' wife of Kingpin Wilson Fisk, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #70 (1969); adapted by Ayelet Zurer in Netflix's Daredevil and Disney+'s Daredevil: Born Again, where she runs his criminal empire and dies in season 2.
Vanessa Hehir
Vanessa Hehir (Vanessa Clare Judith Hehir) is an English actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker born 1981 in Manchester, known for Heartbeat, Waterloo Road, and Coronation Street, and for the Channel 4-selected pilot Unlucky.
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens, also Vanessa Anne Hudgens, is an American actress and singer born 1988 in Salinas, California, famous as Gabriella Montez in Disney's High School Musical (2006), with albums V and Identified, adult roles in Spring Breakers, and Masked Singer season 11 win.
Vanessa Ives
Vanessa Ives is the female lead of Penny Dreadful (Showtime/Sky, 2014–2016), an original character created by John Logan and played by Eva Green in a Golden Globe-nominated role: a Victorian Catholic medium, witch, and reincarnation of Amunet, shot dead by Ethan Chandler in the 2016 series finale.
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Kirby (born 1988) is an English actor known as Princess Margaret in The Crown, an Oscar nominee for Pieces of a Woman, the White Widow in Mission: Impossible, and Sue Storm in the MCU's Fantastic Four films.
Vanessa Lee Chester
Vanessa Lee Chester (born 1984) is an American actress known as Becky in A Little Princess, Janie Gibbs in Harriet the Spy, and Kelly Curtis in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Vanessa Lengies
Vanessa Lengies (born 1985) is a Canadian actress from Montreal, known as Roxanne Bojarski on American Dreams, Kelly Epson on HawthoRNe, and Sugar Motta on Glee.
Vanessa Marano
Vanessa Nicole Marano, born 1992, Los Angeles, is an American actress known as Bay Kennish in Switched at Birth (104 episodes, 2011–2017) and April Nardini on Gilmore Girls; she produces films with sister Laura Marano.
Vanessa Marcil
Vanessa Marcil (Sally Vanessa Ortiz), American actress born 1968 or 1969 in Indio, California; Brenda Barrett on General Hospital, Gina Kincaid on Beverly Hills 90210, Sam Marquez on Las Vegas; 2003 Daytime Emmy winner.
Vanessa Marquez
Vanessa Marquez was an American actress best known as Ana Delgado in Stand and Deliver (1988) and nurse Wendy Goldman on the first three seasons of ER.
Vanessa Marshall
Vanessa Marshall (born 1969) is an American voice actress, daughter of Joan Van Ark, known as Hera Syndulla in Star Wars Rebels, Gamora, Black Widow, Black Canary, and Wonder Woman, and for 143 video game credits.
Vanessa Morgan
Vanessa Morgan (Vanessa Morgan Mziray), Canadian actress born 1992 in Ottawa, known as Toni Topaz on Riverdale (2017–2023), Sarah in My Babysitter's a Vampire, and Max Mitchell in Wild Cards (2024).
Vanessa Ray
Vanessa Ray (Vanessa Ray Liptak), American actress born 1981 in California, known as Eddie Janko-Reagan on Blue Bloods (2013–2024, 220 episodes), CeCe Drake/Charlotte Drake on Pretty Little Liars, Jenny on Suits, and Teri Ciccone on As the World Turns; theater roots in Footloose, Finding Nemo: The Musical, and Hair.
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave (born 1937) is an English actor whose stage, film, and television career spans seven decades and includes an Academy Award, an Emmy, and a Tony.
Vanessa Scalera
Vanessa Scalera (born 1977, Mesagne, Italy) is an Italian actress trained at Rome's La Scaletta theater school, known for Imma Tataranni on Rai 1 (2019–2026), L'arminuta, Filumena Marturano, Avetrana, and the Premio Pasinetti-winning Il fuoco che ti porti dentro.
Vanessa Simmons
Vanessa Jean Simmons (born 1983), daughter of Run-DMC's Rev Run, star of MTV's Run's House and Daddy's Girls, co-founder of the Pastry footwear brand with sister Angela Simmons, and actress in Monogamy and Games People Play.
Vanguard (film)
Vanguard (急先锋) is a 2020 Chinese action film, Stanley Tong's ninth collaboration with Jackie Chan, about a security firm rescuing a kidnapped businessman; delayed from Chinese New Year 2020 by COVID-19, released September 30, 2020, poorly reviewed (RT 29%).
Vani Bhojan (வாணி போஜன்)
Vani Bhojan (வாணி போஜன்), born in 1988 in Ooty, Tamil Nadu, is an Indian actress known for the serial Deivamagal and films like Oh My Kadavule.
Vani Rani (வாணி ராணி) (TV series)
Vani Rani (வாணி ராணி) is a Tamil Sun TV family drama (2013–2018, about 1,743 episodes) produced by Radaan Mediaworks, starring Radhika Sarathkumar in a dual role as twin sisters married to two brothers; remade for Zee TV in Hindi. Not the 1974 Sivaji film of the same name.
Vani Viswanath
Vani Viswanath (വാണി വിശ്വനാഥ്), born 1971 in Ollur, Thrissur, is a Malayalam film actress known as the 'Action Queen', with 50 Malayalam and 41 Telugu films, the award-winning Susanna (2000), marriage to actor Baburaj, and a 2024 comeback in Rifle Club.
Vanilla Sky
Vanilla Sky (2001), Cameron Crowe's psychological thriller starring Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, and Cameron Diaz, remakes Amenábar's Abre los ojos; cryonics lucid-dream plot, $68M budget, 41% critics versus 72% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.