Vanessa Marcil an American actress and the first wife of Corey Feldman an American actor, singer, and activist. The former couple were married from 1989 to 1993.

Vanessa Marcil is most known for her appearances on General Hospital as Brenda Barrett, Gina Kincaid on Beverly Hills, 90210, and Sam Marquez on Las Vegas.

She appeared in several stage performances before obtaining the part of Brenda Barrett on General Hospital in 1992. She received three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her depiction (in 1997, 1998, and 2003), and she won in 2003 as Outstanding Supporting Actress. She was nominated Outstanding Lead Actress at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in February 1998.

Vanessa Marcil  appeared in the Hallmark Channel film Stranded in Paradise in 2014, and in 2015, she joined the cast of the Pop reality series Queens of Drama, which follows the lives of former soap opera actresses as they try to pitch a pilot for a television network. She is currently engaged to a California Deputy Sheriff, MC Martin