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Vivian Wu (邬君梅)

Vivian Wu (邬君梅, Wu Jun-mei), Shanghai-born actress (born 1966) who played Wenxiu in The Last Emperor, starred in The Joy Luck Club and The Pillow Book, joined the Oscars Academy in 1995, and later led Chinese TV dramas such as Woju and Six Sisters.

Vivica A. Fox

Vivica A. Fox (Vivica Anjanetta Fox), American actress and producer born 1964 in Indiana; broke through in 1996 with Independence Day and Set It Off, later played Vernita Green in Kill Bill Vol. 1, and works as producer, director, and Lifetime franchise star.

Vivica A. Fox filmography

Vivica A. Fox filmography: screen credits of the American actress born 1964, from Born on the Fourth of July (1989) through Independence Day, Set It Off, Soul Food, and Kill Bill, plus Lifetime TV movies and her 2023 directorial debut.

Vivid Entertainment

Vivid Entertainment, also Vivid Entertainment Group, is a Los Angeles adult film studio founded in 1984 by Steven Hirsch and David James, known for its Vivid Girls contract stars; production was taken over by Gamma Films in 2018.

Vivien & the Florist

Vivien & the Florist is an upcoming American independent biographical drama directed by Nick Sandow and written by Jayce Bartok, starring Carla Gugino as actress Vivien Leigh, based on her 1966 relationship with a Philadelphia florist.

Vivien Leigh

Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley, was a British stage and film actress who won Best Actress Oscars for Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, a Tony for Tovarich, and married Laurence Olivier; she made fewer than twenty films.

Vivien Lyra Blair

Vivien Lyra Blair, also Vivien Blair, born 2012, American child actress known for Girl in Bird Box (2018), Guppy in We Can Be Heroes (2020), young Leia Organa in Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), and Sawyer Harper in The Boogeyman (2023).

Vivienne Medrano

Vivienne Medrano (Vivziepop), Salvadoran-American animator and creator of Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, and the Hellaverse; founded SpindleHorse, built the 2019 YouTube pilot to over 111 million views, moved to Prime Video in 2024, and will direct the feature Prehistoria for Warner Bros.

Vivir de amor

Vivir de amor is a 2024 Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía for TelevisaUnivision, adapted from Portugal's Laços de Sangue; it stars Kimberly Dos Ramos, Gala Montes, and Emmanuel Palomares and ran 130 episodes on Las Estrellas from January to July 2024.

Vivo (film)

Vivo (2021) is Sony Pictures Animation's first musical, directed by Kirk DeMicco, with songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who voices a kinkajou delivering a love song from Havana to Miami. Netflix release, Metascore 66, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Vivre sa vie

Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (My Life to Live) is Jean-Luc Godard's 1962 French black-and-white drama in twelve tableaux, starring Anna Karina as Nana, a record-shop clerk who drifts into prostitution; it won the Special Jury Prize at Venice 1962.

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song

Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song, original 2021 WIT Studio sci-fi anime (13 episodes plus a recap) by Tappei Nagatsuki and Eiji Umehara, music by Satoru Kosaki; AI songstress Vivy and Matsumoto spend 100 years preventing an AI-human war; it later reached Netflix.

Vixen (comics)

Vixen (Mari Jiwe McCabe) is a DC Comics superheroine who mimics any animal's abilities through the Tantu Totem. Created by Gerry Conway and Bob Oksner, she debuted in Action Comics #521 (1981) after her planned solo series was cancelled in the 1978 DC Implosion.

Vixen (web series)

Vixen is a 2015-2016 CW Seed animated web series, the Arrowverse spin-off about Mari McCabe, whose Tantu Totem lets her mimic any animal's abilities, voiced by Megalyn Echikunwoke.

Viy (2014 film)

Viy (Вий), also released as Forbidden Empire or Viy 3D, is a 2014 dark fantasy film directed by Oleg Stepchenko, loosely based on Nikolai Gogol's story "Viy" and set in early-eighteenth-century Ukraine.

Viy (Вий) (1967 film)

Viy (Вий), 1967 Mosfilm Soviet horror-fantasy film by Georgi Kropachev and Konstantin Yershov, adapted from Gogol's 1835 novella; starring Leonid Kuravlyov and Natalya Varley, seen by about 32 million USSR viewers.

Viy 2: Journey to China (Вий 2: Путешествие в Китай)

Viy 2: Journey to China (Тайна печати дракона; The Mystery of the Dragon Seal, The Iron Mask) is a 2019 Russian-Chinese fantasy adventure sequel to Viy (2014), directed by Oleg Stepchenko, starring Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Jason Flemyng; a $50 million box-office failure.

Viz Media

Viz Media (VIZ Media, LLC) is the largest North American manga publisher and a leading anime distributor, founded 1986 in San Francisco by Seiji Horibuchi, now a Shogakukan-Shueisha joint venture with Shonen Jump and VIZ Manga digital services.

Vlad Love (ぶらどらぶ)

Vlad Love (ぶらどらぶ) is a 2021 original ONA anime by Mamoru Oshii (chief director) and Junji Nishimura, produced by Drive with Production I.G: 12 episodes about blood donor Mitsugu Bamba and the vampire Mai Vlad Transylvania, streamed on Crunchyroll.

Vladimir (TV series)

Vladimir is a 2026 Netflix eight-episode comedy-drama limited series adapted by Julia May Jonas from her 2022 novel, starring Rachel Weisz as an unnamed professor obsessed with colleague Vladimir (Leo Woodall); premiered March 5, 2026.

Vladimir Herzog

Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist and TV Cultura news director tortured and killed by the military dictatorship in São Paulo in 1975.

Vladimir Kulich

Vladimir Kulich (born 1956, Prague) is a Czech-born actor known as Buliwyf in The 13th Warrior (1999), The Beast in Angel, Tiberius in Ironclad, Erik in Vikings, and the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in Skyrim.

Vlogbrothers

Vlogbrothers is the YouTube channel of brothers John and Hank Green, started January 1, 2007 as Brotherhood 2.0, center of the Nerdfighteria community, Project for Awesome charity, and the educational company Complexly.

Voice (보이스) (TV series)

Voice (보이스) is a South Korean OCN crime-thriller series (2017) about a 112 emergency call center's Golden Time Team, starring Jang Hyuk and Lee Ha-na, spanning four seasons, 56-country sales, and Japanese and Thai remakes.

Voice acting

Voice acting: performing characters or narration using only the voice, also called voice over. Spans animation, games, commercials, audiobooks, dubbing; began with 1920s radio and Steamboat Willie (1928); now shaped by home studios and AI cloning disputes.

Voice acting in Japan

Voice acting in Japan (seiyū, 声優) is an independent voice-performance profession with its own training schools, agencies, and star system, centered on anime, games, and dubbing, with low rookie pay and active generative-AI disputes.

Voice from the Stone

Voice from the Stone is a 2017 supernatural psychological thriller directed by Eric D. Howell, adapted from Silvio Raffo's Italian novel La voce della pietra, starring Emilia Clarke as a nurse treating a mute boy in a 1950s Tuscan castle.

Voice of Silence (소리도 없이)

Voice of Silence (소리도 없이, Sorido Eobsi) is Hong Eui-jeong's 2020 South Korean crime drama debut: corpse cleaners Yoo Ah-in and Yoo Jae-myung guard a kidnapped girl, winning Baeksang and Blue Dragon awards.

Voice-over

Voice-over: offscreen narration or dialogue by an unseen speaker in film, TV, radio, ads, and games; distinct from voice acting; used for localization, documentary, and e-learning, now challenged by AI text-to-speech voices.

Voicemails for Isabelle

Voicemails for Isabelle is a 2026 Netflix romantic comedy directed and written by Leah McKendrick, starring Zoey Deutch as grieving chef Jill and Nick Robinson as Wes, who receives her voicemails to her late sister; released June 19, 2026.