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Veronica Hamel

Veronica Hamel (born 1943) is an American actress and former Eileen Ford model, best known as public defender Joyce Davenport on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), earning five Emmy nominations, and for the last US cigarette TV ad.

Veronica Hart

Veronica Hart, stage name of Jane Esther Hamilton (born 1956, Las Vegas), American adult film actress of the late 1970s and 1980s, AFAA Best Actress winner, later director and producer, judge in Boogie Nights.

Veronica Lake

Veronica Lake, born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman and earlier billed as Constance Keane, was an American actress whose hair-over-one-eye look defined 1940s Hollywood and drew a wartime government safety request.

Veronica Lodge

Veronica Lodge (Ronnie), Archie Comics character debuting in Pep Comics #26 (April 1942), created by Bob Montana; wealthy daughter of Hiram and Hermione Lodge, Betty Cooper's rival for Archie Andrews, later played by Camila Mendes in Riverdale.

Veronica Mars

Veronica Mars (no native title) is an American teen noir TV series created by Rob Thomas, starring Kristen Bell as a teenage private investigator in Neptune, California; three seasons 2004-2007, a 2014 Kickstarter-funded film, and a 2019 Hulu revival.

Veronica Mars (film)

Veronica Mars is a 2014 American mystery comedy-drama film continuing the television series, written and directed by Rob Thomas and starring Kristen Bell as the private-investigator heroine.

Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth (born 1988) is the #1 New York Times bestselling American author of the Divergent dystopian YA trilogy (over 32 million copies sold) and adult works Chosen Ones, Poster Girl, and When Among Crows; her alternate-universe Divergent novel The Sixth Faction publishes October 6, 2026.

Veronica Sawyer

Veronica Sawyer is the protagonist of Heathers (1988) and its musical and TV adaptations, created by Daniel Waters and Michael Lehmann, played by Winona Ryder, Barrett Wilbert Weed, and others; a teen-satire heroine complicit in murders staged as suicides.

Veronica Taylor

Veronica Taylor, born Kathleen Charlotte McInerney in 1965, is the American voice actress who originally voiced Ash Ketchum, May, and Delia in the 4Kids English dub of Pokémon (1998–2006), also known for April O'Neil, Nico Robin, and Fire Emblem roles.

Veronica Voss

Veronika Voss (Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss), 1982 Fassbinder drama, second film of the BRD trilogy, based on Ufa star Sybille Schmitz; won the 1982 Golden Bear.

Veronica's Closet

Veronica's Closet is an American sitcom created by Marta Kauffman and David Crane. It stars Kirstie Alley as Veronica Chase, the head of a lingerie and book company.

Veronika (TV series)

Veronika (TV series): Swedish SkyShowtime Nordic noir crime thriller starring Alexandra Rapaport as police officer Veronika Gren, who sees visions of the dead; premiered 22 March 2024, three seasons. Distinct from the Brazilian Globoplay series Verônica com K.

Veronika Slowikowska

Veronika Slowikowska (born 1995, Barrie, Canada) is a Canadian actress and comedian of Polish descent, known for Shanice in What We Do in the Shadows, Davey & Jonesie's Locker, and as an SNL season 51 featured player.

Véronique Tadjo

Véronique Tadjo, born in Paris in 1955 and raised in Abidjan, is an Ivorian and French writer and academic known for writing about the Rwandan genocide and the 2014 Ebola epidemic.

Vers et Prose

Vers et Prose was a French quarterly literary review founded and directed by Paul Fort in Paris in 1905, publishing poetry, neo-classical theater, and criticism until 1914.

Versa

Versa is an American dubstep producer based in Florida who has released bass music since 2019, appearing at festivals including Lost Lands, EDC Mexico, and Bass Canyon.

Versace on the Floor

Versace on the Floor: 2016 Bruno Mars slow jam from 24K Magic, second single, written with Brown, Fauntleroy, Lawrence; David Guetta remix; Zendaya music video.

Versailles (TV series)

Versailles is a 2015-2018 Franco-Canadian Canal+ historical drama created by Simon Mirren and David Wolstencroft, starring George Blagden as Louis XIV; three 10-episode seasons, ~€30m season-one budget, filmed partly at the real palace.

Verse chronicle

A verse chronicle (German Reimchronik, plural Reimchroniken) is a medieval chronicle written in rhymed verse rather than prose, usually in the vernacular; the genre began with the 12th-century German Kaiserchronik.

Verse drama

Verse drama is a play written primarily or entirely in verse, from Shakespeare's blank verse through a twentieth-century revival led by T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and Christopher Fry.

Verse epistle

A verse epistle is a poem in the form of a letter to a real or named recipient, a genre running from Horace to Boileau and Auden.

Verse novel

A verse novel is a long narrative work that uses the equipment of a novel, including storyline, setting, characters, dialogue, and viewpoint, but tells its story in verse rather than prose, as in Pushkin's Eugene Onegin.

Verse satire

Verse satire is satiric poetry in which a poet, usually in his own persona, ridicules folly and condemns virtue-recommending vice, first classified in Rome by Lucilius, Horace, and Juvenal.

Versions of Blade Runner

Versions of Blade Runner: the seven known cuts of Ridley Scott's 1982 film, from the workprint and 1982 theatrical and International Cuts to the 1992 Director's Cut and 2007 Final Cut, differing in voiceover, ending, unicorn dream, violence, and effects.

Verso Books

Verso Books, founded as New Left Books by New Left Review in 1970, is a London- and New York-based independent radical publisher; it publishes politics, theory, history, and fiction, bundles ebooks with print, and runs a book club.

Versus (2022 manga)

Versus (バーサス, Bāsasu) is a monthly shōnen manga by ONE, illustrated by Kyoutarou Azuma and composed by bose, serialized in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Sirius since November 26, 2022; thirteen worlds battle their natural enemies, and it won the 49th Kodansha Manga Award shōnen category.

Versus (VERSUS) (2000 film)

Versus (ヴァーサス) is a 2000 Japanese action-horror film directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, starring Tak Sakaguchi as Prisoner KSC2-303 fighting yakuza and undead in the Forest of Resurrection; budget $400,000, shot on 16mm.

Vertep

Vertep, also called shopka or batlejka, is a portable Christmas puppet theater of East Slavic peoples, performing nativity drama and comic scenes in a decorated two-tier box.

Vertex Force (バーテックスフォース)

Vertex Force (バーテックスフォース) is an original 2026 TV anime directed by Kazuhiro Takamura at SMDE, about Okinawan siblings fighting the AI EDVA with inherited Engine powers.

Vertical Horizon

Vertical Horizon: American alternative rock band formed 1991 in Washington, D.C. by Matt Scannell and Keith Kane; known for the 1999 RCA album Everything You Want and its Billboard Hot 100 number-one title track.