Okuma, Enuka 1976- (E. Vanessa Okuma, Enuka Vanessa Okuma, Vanessa Okuma)

PERSONAL

Full name, Enuka Vanessa Okuma; born September 20, 1976, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Education: Graduate of Simon Fraser University.

Addresses:

Agent—Deb Dillistone, Lucas Talent, Sun Tower, 100 West Pender St., Seventh Floor, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1R8, Canada; Amanda Glazer, The Kohner Agency, 9300 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 555, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Actress. Performed with the Vancouver Youth Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Also known as E. Vanessa Okuma.

Awards, Honors:

Gemini Award nominations, best performance in a children's or youth program or series, 1995, and best performance by an actress in a continuing leading dramatic role, 1996, both Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, for Madison; Gemini Award nomination, best performance by an actress in a guest role in a dramatic series, 1999, for "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," an episode of Traders; Woman in Film Award, Vancouver International Film Festival, 1999, for DayDrift; Spotlight Award for artistic merit, Women in Film and Video Vancouver and Wired Women Society, 1999.

CREDITS

Television Appearances; Series:

(As Vanessa Okuma) Kelly, Hillside, YTV (Canada), c. 1990-91, series later known as Fifteen, Nickelodeon.

Northwood, CBC, 1991-94.

Sheri, Madison (also known as Working It out at Madison), CanWest Global Television, 1993-97.

Voice of Android 18 for English version, Dragon Ball Z (anime; also known as DBZ), Showtime and syndicated, 1996-98, Cartoon Network, 1999-2003, also broadcast on YTV (Canada), originally broadcast in Japan by Fuji Television Network, 1989-96.

Host, Dream Seekers, CBC, beginning 1998.

Voice of Jade, Shadow Raiders (animated; also known as ShadowRaiders and War Planets), YTV (Canada) and syndicated, 1998-99.

Kira, a recurring role, The City (also known as Deep in the City and Flesh & Blood), CTV (Canada), 1999-2000.

(As Enuka Vanessa Okuma) Voice of Lady Une, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (anime; also known as First Gundam, Gundam, Gundam Wing, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, Space Fighter Team Gunboy, Kido senshi Gundam, and Kido senshi Gundamu), Cartoon Network, 2000-2001, also broadcast by YTV (Canada), originally broadcast in Japan, 1979-80.

Donna, Big Sound, CanWest Global Television, 2000-2001.

Lucy Dotson, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (also known as Lip Service, Sue Thomas: Eye See You, Sue Thomas—FBI, and Sue Thomas, FBI), PAX TV, 2002-2005.

According to some sources, appeared in a recurring role in The Hoop Life, Showtime.

Television Appearances; Movies:

Photo clerk, No Child of Mine (also known as The Fight for Baby Jesse), CBS, 1993.

(As Enuka Vanessa Okuma) Ronnie, Fighting for My Daughter, ABC, 1995.

Rose, For the Love of Nancy, ABC, 1995.

Penny, The Halfback of Notre Dame, Showtime, 1996.

Naomi, The Christmas List, Family Channel, 1997.

Tracy, The Hunted (also known as Die Gejagte), USA Network, 1998.

Voice of Lady Une, Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Special Edition (consists of enhanced episodes of anime series Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz; also known as Endless Waltz, Gundam Wing: The Movie—Endless Waltz, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: The Movie—Endless Waltz, New Mobile Report: Gundam-W Endless Waltz, New Mobile War Chronicle Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition, and Shin kidou senki Gundam Wing Endless Waltz), The WB, 2000, originally broadcast in Japan, 1998.

Voice of Cynthia Graves, G-Saviour (also known as G-Saviour the Movie, Gundam G-Saviour, and Gundam Savior), 2000, originally broadcast in Japan by Nagoya Broadcasting Network, 2000.

Amba, The Dinosaur Hunter, 2000.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Voice of Detective Victoria Waters, City Hunter: Secret Service (anime; also known as City Hunter and Secret Police), CTV (Canada), 1996, originally broadcast by Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, 1996.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

(As Vanessa Okuma) Young club member, "The Gun," MacGyver, ABC, 1990.

Martha Mansfield, "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead," Traders (also known as Haute finance), CanWest Global Television and Lifetime, 1998.

Singer, "Knight Life," Night Man (also known as NightMan), syndicated, 1998.

Summer, "The Bridge," Da Vinci's Inquest (also known as Coroner Da Vinci), CBC, 1998.

Summer, "The Most Dangerous Time," Da Vinci's Inquest (also known as Coroner Da Vinci), CBC, 1998.

"The Black Knight," Night Man (also known as NightMan), syndicated, 1998.

Alikah Aldredge, "Blind Witness," First Wave, Sci-Fi Channel, 1999.

Crystal, "The Enemy Within," Night Man (also known as NightMan), syndicated, 1999.

Adrian, "This Year's Girl," These Arms of Mine, CBC, 2000.

Mariah Mattatuyi, "Tremor," Caitlin's Way (also known as Caitlin, Montana), Nickelodeon, 2000.

Adrian, "Nature Boy," These Arms of Mine, CBC, 2001.

Kevini, "The Blessing," MythQuest, PBS, 2001.

Saphia Wei, "Last Call at the Broken Hammer," Andromeda (also known as Gene Roddenberry's "Andromeda"), syndicated, 2001.

Dr. Colleen Harrington, "Harbor Lights," Dark Angel (also known as James Cameron's "Dark Angel"), Fox, 2002.

Karen Reigns and Karena, "Time Out of Mind," Odyssey 5, Showtime, 2002.

Maria, "Gather Up All the Little People," Da Vinci's Inquest (also known as Coroner Da Vinci), CBC, 2002.

Maria, "Simple, Sad," Da Vinci's Inquest (also known as Coroner Da Vinci), CBC, 2002.

Shauna, "Tagged," The Twilight Zone, UPN, 2003.

Alice Stallworth (1947), "Sandhogs," Cold Case (also known as Anexihniastes ypothesis, Caso abierto, Cold case—affaires classees, Cold Case—Kein Opfer ist je vergessen, Doegloett aktak, Kalla spaar, Todistettavasti syyllinen, and Victimes du passe), CBS, 2006.

Gail Moore, "So Shall Ye Reap," Missing (also known as 1-800-Missing), Lifetime, 2006.

Kelli Rome, "The High Price of Gas," Las Vegas (also known as Casino Eye), NBC, 2007.

Teresa Brotherton, "Physical Attraction … Chemical Reaction," Grey's Anatomy (also known as Complications, Procedure, Surgeons, Under the Knife, and Grey's Anatomy—Die jungen Aerzte), ABC, 2007.

Television Appearances; Pilots:

Lucy Dotson, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (also known as Lip Service, Sue Thomas: Eye See You, Sue Thomas—FBI, and Sue Thomas, FBI), PAX TV, 2002.

Joanna, Spellbound, The CW, 2007.

Luanne, The Watch (also known as Backyards & Bullets), NBC, 2007.

Pam, Imperfect Union, TBS, 2007.

Film Appearances:

Lucy, DayDrift (also known as Daydrift), DayDrift Productions, 1999.

Parolee, Double Jeopardy (also known as Doppelmord and Double condamnation), Paramount, 1999.

First cocktail waitress, Reindeer Games (also known as Deception and Wild Christmas), Dimension Films, 2000.

Second nurse, How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (also known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen), Millennium Films, 2000.

Andrea, Suddenly Naked (also known as Mise a nu), Pantheon Entertainment, 2001.

Member of fashion team, Josie and the Pussycats, Universal, 2001.

Sarah, Sea, 2001.

Karma, House of the Dead (also known as House of the Dead: Le jeu ne fait que commencer), Artisan Entertainment, 2003.

Lydia, Like Mike 2: Streetball, Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment, 2006.

Stage Appearances:

Angel, Marisol, Western Theatre Company, Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1998-99.

Delphina, Valparaiso, Virtual Stage Arts Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2001.

The Woolgatherer, Theatre at the Cavern, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2001.

Also appeared as Gana in The Perfect Ganesh.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

Herself, The Making of "House of the Dead," Kinowelt Home Entertainment, 2004.