Vinessa Shaw

Nude movie roles: XXX

Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of birth: 1976-07-19

As a teen actress Vinessa Shaw was replaced on the 1994 adventure series McKenna by Jennifer Love Hewitt. That's okay, though, since Vinessa was jettisoned into the big leagues when Stanley Kubrick cast her as the prostitute "Domino" in Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Cameron Diaz beat her out for the starring role in Gangs of New York (2002), but Vinessa's stunning as an FBI agent in a nurse uniform in Corky Romano (2001). She's also extremely believable as a masturbatory icon in the sex comedy 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002). Naturally dirty old man Woody Allen knew how to showcase Vinessa in Melinda and Melinda (2004). Still, her most important film is the underseen L.A. Without a Map (1998), where a revealing bathing suit allowed Vinessa to join her actress mother Susan Damante-Shaw in the annals of skinema.