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.
Filmography
all 62
Movies 36
TV Shows 26
self 3
Voice 1
Cruel Encounters (2023)
Black Girl, Erupted (2023)
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)
Angie's Cure (2022)
Mid-Century (2022)
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion (2021)
A Rich Christmas (2021)
Candyman (2021)
American Horror Stories (2021)
A Luv Tale (2021)
Love on a Two Way Street (2020)
Singleholic (2020)
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones (2019)
One Fine Christmas (2019)
40 and Single (2018)
Thriller (2018)
9-1-1 (2018)
Famous in Love (2017)
The Secret She Kept (2016)
The Flash (2014)
Men, Money & Gold Diggers (2014)
Crossed the Line (2014)
Raising Izzie (2013)
Sugar Mommas (2012)
A Mother's Love (2011)
Imagine That (2009)
Contradictions of the Heart (2009)
Flirting with Forty (2008)
Knight Rider (2008)
The Wendy Williams Show (2008)
Phineas and Ferb (2007)
Ice Spiders (2007)
Gift for the Living (2005)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
Cold Case (2003)
Black Listed (2003)
Our America (2002)
Like Mike (2002)
Good Day Live (2001)
Afrocentricity (2000)
Soul Food (2000)
Punks (2000)
Playing with Fire (2000)
Incognito (1999)
Total Recall 2070 (1999)
Between Brothers (1997)
Mother (1996)
The Pretender (1996)
Malcolm & Eddie (1996)
The Steve Harvey Show (1996)
Buddies (1996)
Murder One (1995)
Drop Squad (1994)
Chicago Hope (1994)
Living Single (1993)
Candyman (1992)
Melrose Place (1992)
New Jack City (1991)
Law & Order (1990)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark (1988)
The Cosby Show (1984)
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GenderFemale
Birthday1963-05-12 (60 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsVanessa A. Williams
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