Vanessa Williams
Acting
Born 1963-05-12
New York City, New York, USA
59 credits
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Vanessa Estelle Williams (sometimes professionally credited as Vanessa A. Williams) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food (2000–04), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera, Melrose Place (1992–93). She is also known as Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City and as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth of the Candyman films.
Though not related, she is sometimes confused with American actress, singer, and former Miss America 1984, Vanessa L. Williams. Both women were also, coincidentally, born in New York in the same year. In addition, Vanessa A. Williams starred in the television soap opera, Soul Food, while Vanessa L. Williams starred in the original film.
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Filmography
Acting
50 credits
Law & Order
9-1-1
The Flash
Phineas and Ferb
Chicago Hope
Melrose Place
Cold Case
The Cosby Show
The Steve Harvey Show
Good Day Live
American Horror Stories
The Pretender
Murder One
Candyman
Candyman
Like Mike
Imagine That
New Jack City
Soul Food
Between Brothers
Mid-Century
Wild Rose
Mother
Punks
A Luv Tale
Flirting with Forty
Ice Spiders
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
40 and Single
Sugar Mommas
Thriller
Black Listed
Contradictions of the Heart
Drop Squad
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Our America
Angie's Cure
Playing with Fire
Black Girl, Erupted
A Rich Christmas
Raising Izzie
Incognito
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Love on a Two Way Street
Crossed the Line
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
One Fine Christmas
Cruel Encounters
Other credits
9 credits
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Wendy Williams Show
Living Single
The Word
Malcolm & Eddie
Total Recall 2070
Buddies
The Jaleel White Special
Allergic to Nuts
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