Vanessa Hollingshead is an American actress and stand-up comedian who has performed on many comedy programs including Comedy Central Presents, Live At Jongleurs, Just For Laughs, The Jim Breuer Show, and Funny Women of a Certain Age.
Her father is Michael Hollingshead, a British-born researcher who performed some of the first experiments with psychedelic drugs and hallucinogens, and who introduced Timothy Leary and Paul McCartney to LSD.
[4] Nine months later Hollingshead performed a twelve-minute slot at The Comic Strip Live on Second Avenue, New York City.
As well as appearing in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, she appeared with ventriloquist act Otto & George and Jim Breuer again in the 2002 film American Dummy, and opposite Greg Fitzsimmons and Pete Correale in the 2003 film The Gynecologists.
[5] Hollingshead was married to Lucien Hold, the founder and manager of The Comic Strip Live in New York, whom she had first met when she appeared there in 1995.