Vinessa ShawFilmography

Born:: July 19, 1976
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Fair-haired teen model cum versatile actress Vinessa Shaw has made her mark playing everything from sexy siren to innocent angel, though her breakthrough role came as a mixture of both with her turn as a sympathetic prostitute in director Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Born...Read More

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Two Lovers

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Gwyneth Paltrow, Vinessa Shaw, Isabella Rossellini, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: A depressed young man moves back in with his parents and finds his life turned upside down as he struggles to choose between the beautiful daughter of a close family friend and the scintillating but volatile next-door neighbor whose passion helps to reignite his lust for life. The third screen Read More

2/13/09
Stag Night

Actors: Kip Pardue, Vinessa Shaw, Breckin Meyer, Karl Geary

2009
Garden Party

Actors: Vinessa Shaw, Willa Holland, Richard Gunn, Patrick Fischler, Fiona Dourif

Synopsis: Filmmaker Jason Freeland draws inspiration from the eponymous song for this tale of five lost souls attempting to navigate the treacherous urban landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. April is an ambitious beauty in search of success, but can she learn to get by and keep on her clothes at the same Read More

7/11/08
Badland

Actors: Jamie Draven, Grace Fulton, Vinessa Shaw, Chandra West, Joe Morton

Synopsis: A veteran of the first Gulf War who later went on to serve in Afghanistan and Iraq discovers that returning to civilian life after the trauma he endured is but an empty dream in director Francesco Lucente's harrowing drama. Years ago, when he served in the first Gulf War, Jerry (Jamie Dreven) was Read More

11/30/07
3:10 to Yuma

Actors: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Ben Foster

Synopsis: Russell Crowe plays a desperado whose accomplices stage an ambush after he is taken into custody by a determined local sheriff in this remake of the 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin. James Mangold directs a script based on the Elmore Leonard short story and penned by Stuart Beattie, Michael Brandt Read More

9/2/07
The Hills Have Eyes

Actors: Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd

Synopsis: Alexandre Aja directs this remake of Wes Craven's film The Hills Have Eyes. In this update, a family is taking a cross-country road trip when their trailer breaks down, leaving them stranded in the desert of New Mexico. There, they find themselves under attack by the savage "hill people," who were Read More

3/10/06
Melinda and Melinda

Actors: Radha Mitchell, Chloë Sevigny, Jonny Lee Miller, Will Ferrell, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: While Woody Allen has long fused comedy and drama in his films, he embraces the two styles in a new and unusual way in this feature. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is enjoying dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line Read More

3/18/05
Bereft

Actors: Vinessa Shaw, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Daly, Marsha Mason, Michael C. Hall

Synopsis: A woman has a hard time embracing reality after a personal tragedy in this made-for-cable drama. Molly (Vinessa Shaw) is a young widow having a hard time putting her life back together after her husband's death. Molly obsesses over the leftover artifacts of his life, and she believes that his Read More

2004
Fathers and Sons

Actors: Kathy Baker, Ron Eldard, Gale Harold, John Mahoney, Samantha Mathis, Vinessa Shaw, Bradley Whitford

Synopsis: Three families residing on the same suburban street struggle to strengthen their father/son bonds in this tale from filmmakers Rodrigo García, Jared Rappaport, and Robert Spera. As old wounds remain sensitive and alienation keeps generations of fathers and sons from truly bonding, the struggle to Read More

2003
The Weight of Water

Actors: Catherine McCormack, Sarah Polley, Sean Penn, Josh Lucas, Elizabeth Hurley

Synopsis: A woman studying a crime of the past finds her own life becoming a morass of suspicion and deceit in this drama based on the novel by Anita Shreve. Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) is a photographer working on a project that would document surviving evidence of a multiple murder that occurred a Read More

11/1/02
40 Days and 40 Nights

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Paulo Costanzo

Synopsis: Following memorable roles in the military action-adventures Pearl Harbor (2001) and Black Hawk Down (2001), young actor Josh Hartnett is propelled to romantic leading man status with this semi-autobiographical comedy from screenwriter Rob Perez. Hartnett stars as Matt Sullivan, a young man Read More

3/1/02
Corky Romano

Actors: Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk, Peter Berg, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan stars in this mob comedy as Corky Romano, a veterinarian with a penchant for pop music from the '80s. As a youth, Corky was kicked out of his Mafia-connected family for being an oddball. Now his long-lost father (Peter Falk) has been indicted and needs Read More

10/12/01
The '70s

Actors: Jeanetta Arnette, Robert Bailey Jr., Graham Beckel, Orlando Brown, Michael Easton

Synopsis: Four friends struggle to find themselves in the decade that brought us disco, platform shoes, and those smiley-face buttons in this miniseries, which first aired in April of 2000 on NBC. Byron Shaw (Brad Rowe), his girlfriend Eileen (Vinessa Shaw), and his sister Christie (Amy Smart) are all at Read More

2000
Eyes Wide Shut

Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London Read More

7/16/99
Wayward Son

Actors: Harry Connick, Jr., Pete Postlethwaite, Patricia Clarkson, Vinessa Shaw, Michael Gaston

Synopsis: Former fashion photographer Randall Harris debuts with this gritty drama about justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. Jesse Banks Rhodes (Harry Connick, Jr.) is suddenly and inexplicably released from jail after serving part of a life sentence on a trumped up charge Read More

1999
L.A. Without a Map

Actors: David Tennant, Vinessa Shaw, Julie Delpy, Vincent Gallo, Cameron Bancroft

Synopsis: Mika Kaurismaki directed this British-French-Finnish romantic comedy adapted from Richard Rayner's autobiographical novel about a series of Hollywood misadventures. Vacationing in the North of England, aspiring Los Angeles actress Barbara (Vinessa Shaw) stops briefly in a village where she meets Read More

1998
Coyote Summer

Synopsis: A good film for families and horse lovers, this touching drama centers on a teenage malcontent who is sent away from New York City to spend the summer on her aunt and uncle's Utah ranch. There the rebellious girl learns important life lessons, particularly after she forms a bond with a beautiful Read More

1996
Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Twos

Synopsis: A murder has been committed in Cabot Cove, and the body is found in the garage of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Actually, two murders take place, and the cause of it all is the illicit affair between a married woman and the town bully. All the members of the couple's bowling league are Read More

1994
Hocus Pocus

Actors: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch

Synopsis: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy romp around like coked-up versions of The Three Stooges in the frantic Disney romp Hocus Pocus. The film begins in 1693 where three witches -- Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) -- are preparing a Read More

1993
Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

1993
Ladybugs

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Jackée, Jonathan Brandis, Ilene Graff, Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: Rodney Dangerfield plays it cute in this comedy directed by veteran director Sidney J. Furie. Dangerfield plays Chester Lee, a man so anxious for a promotion that he agrees to coach a girl's soccer team his company is sponsoring. If the team has a winning season, Chester will get his promotion. Read More

3/27/92
Walls & Bridges

Actors: Vinessa Shaw

Synopsis: Trent is a commercial artist with a lot of problems with the conflict between his sense of artistic integrity and what he has to do for his clients. One day, he confides his troubles to a young nun working at a youth center. What he doesn't know is that she has been deciding that she doesn't want Read More

1992