Vanessa Lynne-Marie Lengies (born July 21, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress best known for starring in the drama American Dreams as Roxanne Bojarski. She attended Evergreen Elementary and then went on to Hudson High School from 1997-2002.

Lengies got her start in Canadian television on such shows as Sponk!, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Radio Active, and Popular Mechanics for Kids.

In 2005, she co-starred with Hilary Duff and Heather Locklear in the comedy The Perfect Man. She also plays a supporting role as the jailbait hostess in Waiting.... In 2006, she was seen as a gymnast in the movie Stick It.

Lengies is fluent in French and English, and knows some Arabic. Her father is German and her mother is Egyptian.

For The Grudge 2, the role of Vanessa was originally written for Lengies, who eventually turned it down to film My Suicide; the part still bears her name. She has also appeared in CBS show The Ghost Whisperer in an episode titled 'The