Vanessa Jackson
Vanessa Jackson is an actress, known for Star Trek: Discovery (2017), Dark Phoenix (2019) and Workin' Moms (2017).
Vanessa Joli
Vanessa Joli is known for Love Island Australia (2018).
Vanessa Jopp
Born in the German town Leonberg, Vanessa enrolled at The Munich Film School in 1993 - graduating in 1999 with a Film & TV degree. During that period, Vanessa already directed several short films and music videos and directed skits for the comedy series "The Weekly Show". After "Honolulu" (1999), a collaboration with five fellow students, Vanessa caused a stir with her first feature; the adolescent love triangle story "Forget America" (2000), that won the First Steps Award among several other prizes. Her next feature shortly followed with "Engel + Joe" (2001), based on a true story, written by the acclaimed German journalist Kai Hermann. After a successful stage adaptation of novel "Film B", and a TV stint, Vanessa's third feature "Happy as One" (2006) premiered at Berlinale and was nominated for Best Film at the German Film Awards. In 2007, Vanessa's "Messy Christmas", a star-studded ensemble comedy and a remake of the Swedish success "In Bed with Santa", was then released. Vanessa went on to direct the TV-movie screen adaptation of the novel "Ladylike", a comedy about two aging women who support themselves by becoming con artists, and the TV series "Midlife Crisis" winning the prestigious Grimme Award for the latter. Her next directorial and co-written feature "Lies and Other Truths" (2014) was successfully released by Wild Bunch. After directing the acclaimed TV entry "Crime Scene: Amour Fou" (2017), Vanessa helmed the screen adaptation of the bestselling novel "Love Virtually", co-produced and successfully released by Sony Pictures as "The Space Between the Lines" (2019). Vanessa is next picture was the International Netflix feature, "Faraway". Vanessa has travelled widely across continents, enabling her to tap into the rich tapestry of cultures - inspiring her and her emotionally grounded characters, elevating stories and broadening their international appeal. Vanessa lives in Berlin with her family.
Vanessa Jung
Vanessa Jung was born on February 29, 1980 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany. She is an actress, known for Verbotene Liebe (1995), Hand aufs Herz (2010) and 100 Pro (2001).
Vanessa Kai
An actor, collaborator, and native New Yorker, Vanessa Kai was born Vanessa Kwong. After her parents divorced, Kai legally changed her name to combine the surnames of both her parents: (K)wong & Ng(ai). Kai studied acting at New York City's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, also known as the "FAME" school. She is also a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she concentrated her studies in Sociobiology and Psychology. Most recently, Kai was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in KPOP, a new immersive musical sensation produced by Ars Nova (Broadway's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) in association with Ma-Yi Theater + Woodshed Collective. Book by Jason Kim (HBO's Girls). Music & Lyrics by Helen Park & Max Vernon. Directed by Teddy Bergman. Other Off Broadway credits include The Architecture of Becoming at Women's Project Theater, Somebody's Daughter by Chisa Hutchinson, in an extended run at Second Stage Theater, and Henry VI (Parts 1-3) by William Shakespeare (a NYT Critics' Pick) with the National Asian American Theater Company. Regional theater credits include Top Girls by Caryl Churchill. Directed by TONY Award Nominee, Liesl Tommy (Trevor Noah's Born a Crime, Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019), Respect (2021), and Insecure (2016)). Other regional theater credits include Brownsville Song (B-side for Tray), Far East (Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Debut by the Connecticut Critics Circle), Infinite Ache by David Schulner, and The Christians by Lucas Hnath. In addition to her theater, television and film work, Kai has also helped develop new works at the The New Group, Lark Play Development Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New Dramatists, and others. Upcoming, Kai will be performing with Halley Feiffer & Hamish Linklater in The Pain Of My Belligerence written by Halley Feiffer at Playwrights Horizons. Directed by Trip Cullman (Broadway's Choir Boy (MTC), Lobby Hero (TONY Award Nominated for Best Revival) (Second Stage), Significant Other (Roundabout Theatre).
Vanessa Kanu
Vanessa Kanu is a Nigerian screenwriter who has worked on several projects, including The Weekend (in production) and Sylvia. Sylvia is a supernatural thriller which has received several awards and was nominated for the Best Writer category at the 2020 Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards. Vanessa has a flair for horror, irreverent comedy, and slow burn supernatural and psychological thrillers. The darker, the better.
Vanessa Kirby
Vanessa Kirby is an English stage, TV, and film actress. From 2016 to 2018, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series in 2018. She starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations, Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Time and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018). She is known mostly for her stage work, having won acclaim and awards for various productions, including Streetcar Named Desire with Ben Foster which transferred to New York; with Variety in 2016 called her "the outstanding stage actress of her generation, capable of the most unexpected choices." After MI6, she had a leading role in another action blockbuster, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Vanessa Knutsen
Vanessa Knutsen is a producer and writer, known for Only Humans (2018), The Promised Land (2011) and What About Brian (2006).
Vanessa Kon
Vanessa Lachey
Vanessa Joy Minnillo was born on November 9, 1980, at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. She is the daughter of Helen Ramos Bercero and Vincent Charles Minnillo, a crew member on an Air Force aircraft (he has since retired). Her father is American, from Ohio, and is of half Italian, one quarter Russian-Jewish, and one quarter Irish, descent. Her mother is a Filipina, whom he met while based in the Philippines. Vanessa and her family, which includes her brother Vincent, who is two years older than she, lived in California, Nevada, Florida, Germany and Japan, before settling down in Charleston, South Carolina. Vanessa attended seven different schools during this time, and participated in cheerleading and volunteer work for numerous local charities. Her parents divorced in 1986, and Helen was awarded custody of both children; Vanessa only saw her father on weekends. When her mother remarried, the family moved to Turkey, where her new stepfather, who was in the U.S. Air Force, was assigned. They were forced to evacuate when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, leading to the Gulf War of 1991, and Helen brought the kids back to the U.S., leaving them with their father until she could get back on her feet. That would be the last time that Vanessa would see her mother, who never returned. Instead, Vanessa began a new life, along with her brother, living with her father Vince and his new wife, Donna, whom she now calls her "best friend". With her life more settled, Vanessa began to turn her attention to the Miss South Carolina Teen USA beauty pageant in 1996. She had loved cheerleading since she was a young child, and was very keen on performing in front of an audience. With her unaffected style and natural ebullience, she easily won over the judges, sweeping all the categories before winning the crown. Two years later, on August 17, 1998, she competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant. Though it was preempted by CBS' live coverage of a speech by President Bill Clinton regarding the Monica Lewinsky ordeal; in the end, she wowed the Miss Teen USA judges just as she had the Miss South Carolina Teen USA judges two years earlier. It was her second pageant, and her second victory. In the three years since handing over her Miss Teen USA crown, Vanessa has concentrated on college, acting and modeling. She has a promising future, and was recently one of the finalists in E!'s competition to find a replacement for Brooke Burke as hostess for the show, Wild On... (1997). Though the job ultimately went to Cindy Taylor, Vanessa made a big impression with "Wild On..." fans across the world, and hopes to continue working in television for some time to come. Vanessa began dating singer Nick Lachey in 2006, shortly after Jessica Simpson filed for divorce from him. The couple married in 2011, and have three children.