Vanessa Ray



Vanessa Ray , was born in Livermore, California  and raised in Portland, Oregon , is an American television, film and stage actress . She is known for her role as Teri Ciccone in the final season of the soap opera As the World Turns , and more recently for her regular role as Jenny on the USA Network  legal drama Suits . <sup id="cite_ref-0"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">[1 ] <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> She has made multiple appearances in other television series, including Tessa Marchetti in <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Damages <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> and Maggie Sheldon in <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">White Collar <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">.

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<p style="margin:0cm0cm0.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vanessa earned her Actor's Equity card while performing the role of Rusty and singing "Let's Hear It For the Boy" in the musical Footloose. She originated the role of Nemo in Robert and Kristin Lopez's <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Finding Nemo, the Musical <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> at Orlando's Disney World. Vanessa embodied the character of Olive Ostrovsky in the National Tour of <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">. She joined the Broadway cast of <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">Hair <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> in its final year as Crissy, and sang her heart out in the "Frank Mills Song".

<p style="margin:0cm0cm0.0001pt;line-height:14.25pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">She made her on-screen debut as Chris in the youth-oriented video short feature, The Sparky Chronicles: The Map (2003).