Vinessa Shaw Biography
Vinessa Shaw is an American actress and model known for her breakthrough role in Disney’s 1993 Halloween comedy-fantasy picture Hocus Pocus. Shaw also starred in Ladybugs and Los Angeles Without a Map.
How old is Vinessa Shaw? – Age
She is 47 years old as of July 19 2023. She was born in 1976 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Her real name is Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw.
Vinessa Shaw Family – Education
She was born to actress Susan Damante and Larry Shaw welcomed Vanessa. Shaw’s father is a psychologist who previously taught psychology as an adjunct at Antioch University. Her name Vinessa was a variant of her grandfather Vincent, spelled with a “i” instead of the more typical “a”.
Vinessa Shaw Husband – Children
Shaw made her first kid announcement in August 2017 alongside her spouse, Kristopher Gifford (with whom she dated in 2007, became engaged in 2008, and wed in 2017). In February 2018, Shaw gave birth to their son, Jack.
Vinessa Shaw Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Vinessa Shaw House
She played short-lived character Kelly Benedict on House, M.D. in the seventh-season episode Massage Therapy.Gregory House recruited Kelly Benedict, a resident in psychiatry, to take Thirteen’s place. Vinessa Shaw played her; she had recently completed her residency. House gave Chase the assignment because she thought Chase could manage the pressure of working with House. Eric Foreman surmised that Chase was taken aback by Benedict’s arrival and saw merely a physician from a “middling school” with “middling grades.”
Foreman attempted to undercut Chairman while she attempted to back Benedict.House devoted much of his time to determining Benedict’s hiring decision’s psychological justification. He proposed that Benedict might have made Chase think of his mother Allison Cameron, or even that Chase desired to share a bed with her.
Benedict struggled to describe the symptoms of a young married woman to the team, offering cliched diagnoses and blaming mental disease. But House discovered the patient was schizophrenic and required a different kind of medication. Benedict came under fire from him for making the snap judgment that the patient might have known what was wrong with her before the doctors were informed.
Chairman deferred to Chase the ultimate decision about Benedict’s stay. Chase chose to let Benedict leave after he implied that she wasn’t ready for it.
Vinessa Shaw Career
Shaw had made her film debut in a 1981 slasher film called Ah, back home again, which managed a chronic executioner focusing on a family at Thanksgiving time. She then landed parts in a modest bunch of TV jobs. She assumed an extensively bigger part in Disney’s 1993 Halloween family film Hocus Pocus close by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, and a youthful Thora Birch. Shaw finished jobs in different free movies until the end of the 1990s.
In 1998, she enlisted at Barnard School in New York City, however exited to keep chasing after acting. Shaw was going to the school when she was drawn nearer by Stanley Kubrick for her part in Eyes Wide Shut, playing a whore who is experienced by Tom Journey’s personality. In a 2008 meeting, Shaw expressed that Kubrick was “extremely persuasive” to her and that he “was the main individual who urged her to act”.
At the hour of being projected, she was in school and taking into account substitute vocation choices. Following her job in Eyes Wide Shut, Shaw played parts in a modest bunch of movies including the free 2000 secret show The Heaviness of Water with Sarah Polley and Sean Penn; the droll parody Corky Romano close by Chris Kattan; the lighthearted comedy 40 Days and 40 Evenings, playing the scrappy ex of Josh Hartnett’s personality; and a tiny job in Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda.
All the more low spending plan and free movies consumed Shaw’s time until 2006, where she got back to the big screen in Alexandre Aja’s redo of Wes Timid’s double-dealing thriller The Slopes Have Eyes, playing a youthful mother on a setting up camp excursion with her family who is gone after by savage freaks in the New Mexico desert. Chief Aja had needed to project her in the film subsequent to seeing her presentation in Eyes Wide Shut. Shaw was highlighted on the authority one sheet advancement banner for the film, which was a film industry achievement.
Shaw was in the 2007 change of the exemplary Western film 3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Christian Bundle, the non mainstream show film Nursery Party, too playing a main part in Two Darlings close by Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow. That film debuted at the Cannes Film Celebration in 2008 and was delivered dramatically in February 2009. In 2013, she played a supporting part inverse Jude Regulation’s personality in Secondary effects.
Vinessa Shaw Movies
♦ 2021 – The Blazing World
♦ 2021 – 12 Mighty Orphans
♦ 2021 – We Need to Do Something
♦ 2018 – Family Blood
♦ 2017 – Clinical
♦ 2015 – Bereave
♦ 2014 – Cold in July
♦ 2014 – After the Fall
♦ 2013 – Side Effects
♦ 2013 – Siren
♦ 2013 – Dark Around the Stars
♦ 2013 – Electric Slide
♦ 2012 – Big Miracle
♦ 2012 – Come Out and Play
♦ 2011 – Puncture
♦ 2010 – Leave
♦ 2009 – Stag Night
♦ 2008 – Two Lovers
♦ 2008 – Garden Party
Vinessa Shaw TV Shows
♦ 2014 – Ray Donovan
♦ 2012 – CSI: NY
♦ 2010 – House
♦ 2005 – Fathers and Sons
♦ 2005 – World of Trouble
♦ 2004 – Bereft
♦ 2000 – The ’70s
♦ 1995 – New York Undercover
♦ 1994 – McKenna
♦ 1994 – Murder, She Wrote
♦ 1993 – Fallen Angels
♦ 1993 – Country Estates
♦ 1992 – The Torkelsons
♦ 1992 – Great Scott!