Vinessa Shaw at Thanksgiving time. She then landed parts in a handful of television roles. She played a considerably large role in Disney's 1993 Halloween family film "Hocus Pocus" alongside Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, and a young Thora Birch. Shaw completed roles in various independent films for the remainder of the 1990s. In 1998, she enrolled at Barnard College in New York City, but dropped out to continue pursuing acting. Shaw was attending the college when she was approached by Stanley Kubrick for her role in "Eyes Wide Shut", playing an HIV-positive prostitute who is encountered by
Sarah Jessica Parker wing after he graduates and moves to New York. "Vulture", on one of its recaps of "Glee", remarked: "[C]haracters who are big-eyed but a little broken inside and desperately in love with New York are what Sarah Jessica Parker does best. I don’t think her stint on "Glee" will revolutionize the show or her career or anything, but she’s absolutely an asset, and I’m glad she’s onboard". In 2013, Parker provided her voice for one of the characters of the animated film "Escape from Planet Earth", and played Gloria Steinem in deleted scenes of the biographical drama "Lovelace". In 2015,