Vanessa Marcil was born as Sally Vannessa Ortiz in the year 1968 and she is American actress. She is known for the roles she had as Brenda Barrett in the General Hospital, as Gina Kincaid in Beverly Hills 90210 and as Sam Marquez in Las Vegas.


Vanessa Marcil was in many theatre productions and afterwards she got the role of Brenda Barrett on the soap opera called General Hospital of 1992. She got Daytime Emmy award nomination and she won the award of 2003 for the Outstanding Supporting Actress and in the year 1998, she got named to be the Outstanding Lead Actress for Soap Opera by Digest Awards.

In the year 1993, she was in the Prince music video called Poorgoo and it was released in only few numbers. In the year 1994, she was in The Most Beautiful Girl in The World, music video of Prince. She was in the list of 50 most Beautiful People in People Magazine for the following year. She started to play in the film debut in the movie called The Rock and she was with Ed Harris, Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage.

In the year 1998, after six years playing in General Hospital, she left this show and she went to play in the movie made for television called Love, Honor and Deceive. She had also a recurring role in the police drama called High Incident that was produced under Steven Spielberg. In the year 1998, she started to act in Beverly Hills, 90210 where she played as Gina Kincaid and she continued to be in the show for one and a half season. She was in two independent films called Nice Guys Sleep Alone together with Sean O Bryan and in This Space Between Us together with Jeremy Sisto.

In the year 2001, she was in the cast to join the NYPC Blue for its Ninth season when she was in a regular in the series and she was Det Carmen Olivera.

Vanessa Marcil got engaged and married Corey Feldman in 1989 until 1993. She had a son with the cast-made of Beverly Hills, 90210 called Brian Austin Green and their son is Kassius Lijah who was born in March of 2002. Marcil got married to the actor Carmine Giovinazzo in the year 2010 in the private ceremony of New York City. They said in the year 2011 that they are about to get a baby together but she got a miscarriage and her husband asked for a divorce in 2012 saying that the reason of a divorce is because of the irreconcilable differences. The divorce was guaranteed in the year 2013.

Her net worth is believed to be over 2 million dollars and other movies she had played include The nanny Express and the One Hot Summer. In the year 2010, she was in the web series called The Bannen Way.

Last Modified: Apr 7, 2020


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