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Vanessa Ferlito

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Biography:Brooklyn, NY, native Vanessa Ferlito grew up amid somewhat challenging circumstances as an only child (the daughter of two Italian-American hair salon owners) whose father died before she reached the age of three. She developed acting aspirations early in life and broke into the entertainment business via television, with guest spots and recurring roles on crime-themed series programs including CSI: New York and The Sopranos -- where her unmistakably ethnic, weathered but voluptuous look lent her time and again to effective portrayals of molls, mistresses, and other gritty urban female types. She landed her most prominent early feature roles in Spider-Man 2 (as a co-star in Mary Jane's play) and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof segment of the 2007 two-episode omnibus Grindhouse (as one of the low-down women stalked and murdered by Kurt Russell's psychopath Stuntman Mike). After the Tarantino project,... Full Biography
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Vanessa Ferlito and Freddy Rodriguez in "Nothing Like the Holidays" (Overture Films)
Vanessa Ferlito in "Nothing Like the Holidays" (Overture Films)
From left: Melonie Diaz, Freddy Rodriguez, Jay Hernandez, John Leguizamo, Vanessa Ferlito, Debra...
Vanessa Ferlito in Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" in "Grindhouse" (The Weinstein Co.)
Viola Davis, left, Vanessa Ferlito and Keshia Knight Pulliam in "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail"...
Vanessa Ferlito
Vanessa Ferlito
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