✎ About Vanessa Parise

Vanessa Parise was born on July 19, 1931 in New York, New York, United States, is Director, Actress, Writer. Vanessa Parise is an actor, writer, and director. The middle of five children, she grew up in the small town of Westerly on the Rhode Island coast. Her childhood as a member of a large, extended, Italian-American family inspired Kiss the Bride (2002).Parise graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in biology, and was accepted to enter Harvard Medical School. Instead, she attended a summer program at Circle in the Square in New York City and was invited to enter their two-year theatre program. She took a deferment from HMS and has never looked back.While at Circle, Parise dove into the Off-Broadway theatre scene, earning honors in the New York Times for her performance of Sarah in "Seascape"). She headed out to Hollywood without any ties or connections, where she acted in television and independent films. Parise wrote, directed, produced and starred in Lo and Jo (1998), a short film which won various awards and accolades. Kiss The Bride was her first feature as director/actor/producer/writer. The film won Best Actress for Parise at Cinequest, Best Feature Film for Parise as writer/producer/director at the Hamptons and Sarasota, Best Actress (Talia Shire) and Best Score (Jeremy Parise) at Monte Carlo, Audience Award For Best Film at Rhode Island, Best Actress (Francis Bay) at Torino, and the list goes on.
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🎂 Vanessa Parise - Age, Bio, Faces and Birthday

Currently, Vanessa Parise is 93 years, 5 months and 3 days old. Vanessa Parise will celebrate 94rd birthday on a Saturday 19th of July 2025. Below we countdown to Vanessa Parise upcoming birthday.

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Popular As	Vanessa Parise
Occupation	Director
Age	93 years old
Zodiac Sign	Leo
Born	July 19, 1931 ( New York, New York, United States)
Birthday	July 19
Town/City	New York, New York, United States
Nationality	United States

🌙 Zodiac

Vanessa Parise’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Vanessa Parise was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.

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Biography/Timeline

2016

Parise received a 2016 Leo award nomination for Best Direction of Perfect High and a 2015 Leo award nomination for Best Direction of #POPFAN. She was named by Lifetime with their Broad Focus Top 5 Original Movies 2015, and by SheKnows as one of Ten Female Directors Breaking Stereotypes in 2014. Her film Kiss the Bride won the Hamptons Film Festival’s Golden Starfish Award for Best Feature. At Cinequest, she won the Director’s Award. She also won the Excellence In Filmmaking Award at Sarasota, Best Actress, and Best Score at Montecarlo, and Best Feature at RIFF.