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)
Mid-Century (2022)
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion (2021)
A Rich Christmas (2021)
Candyman (2021)
American Horror Stories (2021)
A Luv Tale (2021)
Singleholic (2020)
40 and Single (2018)
Thriller (2018)
9-1-1 (2018)
Famous in Love (2017)
The Flash (2014)
Men, Money & Gold Diggers (2014)
Raising Izzie (2013)
A Mother's Love (2011)
Imagine That (2009)
Flirting with Forty (2008)
Knight Rider (2008)
Phineas and Ferb (2007)
Ice Spiders (2007)
Gift for the Living (2005)
Cold Case (2003)
Our America (2002)
Like Mike (2002)
Soul Food (2000)
Punks (2000)
Playing with Fire (2000)
Incognito (1999)
Mother (1996)
The Pretender (1996)
Buddies (1996)
Murder One (1995)
Candyman (1992)
Melrose Place (1992)
The Cosby Show (1984)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1963-05-12 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsVanessa A. Williams
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