Biography for
Vinessa Shaw More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

19 July 1976, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name

Vinessa Elizabeth Shaw

Height

5' 8" (1.73 m)

Trivia

Daughter of Susan Damante with whom she appeared in Coyote Summer (1996).

Is also a model.

Attended Pitzer College, but never graduated.

Vinessa is named after her grandfather, Vincent.

Auditioned for the part of Jenny Everdeane in Gangs of New York (2002).

Ranked #66 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)

Sister of Natalie Shaw.

Engaged to behind-the-scenes film artist Kristopher Gifford (February 2008).

On her mother's side, her mother's paternal grandparents were from Calabria and Naples, Italy. Her mother's maternal grandparents were from Sweden and Ireland.

Personal Quotes

I would never see this movie because I'm frightened of horror movies. Ever since I was a kid, my friends who always wanted to see them would mortify me by showing me clips from a movie, and I would have to run in the other room, call my parents, and go home -- that kind of thing. (on her film The Hills Have Eyes (2006))