Known For
Acting
Born
May 12, 1963
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
59 titles
Vanessa Williams
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Wild Rose
Joyce
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage)
Cruel Encounters
Corynne
Black Girl, Erupted
Cassandra Cole
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Lucille
Angie's Cure
Carla
Mid-Century
Beverly Gordon
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Eve Christmas
A Rich Christmas
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
American Horror Stories
Dr. Eleanor Berger
A Luv Tale
Candice
Love on a Two Way Street
Gloria
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Rebecca
One Fine Christmas
Susan
40 and Single
Bertha Brown
Thriller
Mrs. Walker
9-1-1
Claudette Collins
The Flash
Francine West
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Sandra Winslow
Crossed the Line
Juice
Raising Izzie
Tonya
Sugar Mommas
Lynn
Imagine That
Lori Strother
Contradictions of the Heart
Lea
Flirting with Forty
Kristine
The Wendy Williams Show
Phineas and Ferb
Flight Attendant (voice)
Ice Spiders
Dr. April Sommers
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
Cold Case
Crystal Stacy (2007)
Allergic to Nuts
Black Listed
J.W.
Our America
Sandra Williams
Like Mike
Pharmacist
Good Day Live
Self
Soul Food
Maxine Chadway
Punks
Jennifer
Playing with Fire
Riana Roberts
Incognito
Wilhelmina Hunter
Total Recall 2070
Between Brothers
Rebecca
Mother
Donna
The Pretender
Denise Clements
Malcolm & Eddie
The Steve Harvey Show
Nina
Buddies
Murder One
Drop Squad
Mali
Chicago Hope
Grace Carr