Vanessa Ferlito 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, Ferlito joined co-stars Debra_Messing and Alfred_Molina for the gentle comedy Nothing Like the Holidays and worked with Tyler_Perry on the farce Madea Goes to Jail (2009). Nathan Southern, Rovi
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