Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Vanessa Williams
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.
Movie | Cast | Year |
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Flirting with Forty | Kristine | 2008 |
New Jack City | Keisha | 1991 |
Candyman | Anne-Marie McCoy | 1992 |
Ice Spiders | Dr. April Sommers | 2007 |
Imagine That | Lori Strother | 2009 |
Contradictions of the Heart | Lea | 2009 |
Drop Squad | Mali | 1994 |
Black Listed | J.W. | 2003 |
Raising Izzie | Tonya | 2013 |
Our America | Sandra Williams | 2002 |
Incognito | Wilhelmina Hunter | 1999 |
Mother | Donna | 1996 |
Thriller | Mrs. Walker | 2018 |
Playing with Fire | Riana Roberts | 2000 |
One Fine Christmas | Susan | 2019 |
Candyman | Anne-Marie McCoy | 2021 |
Crossed the Line | Juice | 2014 |
Sugar Mommas | Lynn | 2012 |
Like Mike | Pharmacist | 2002 |
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Lucille | 2022 |
A Rich Christmas | Aggie Maggy / Madison | 2021 |
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion | Eve Christmas | 2021 |
Mid-Century | Beverly Gordon | 2022 |
Love on a Two Way Street | Gloria | 2020 |
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me | Self (voice) | 2004 |
Angie's Cure | Carla | 2022 |
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones | Rebecca | 2019 |
Punks | Jennifer | 2000 |
Men, Money & Gold Diggers | Sandra Winslow | 2014 |
Cruel Encounters | Corynne | 2023 |
Black Girl, Erupted | Cassandra Cole | 2023 | Series | Cast | Year |
Murder One | 1995 | |
Living Single | 1993 | |
Total Recall 2070 | 1999 | |
Buddies | 1996 | |
Malcolm & Eddie | 1996 | |
Law & Order | Vera | 1990 |
The Pretender | Denise Clements | 1996 |
The Cosby Show | 1984 | |
Cold Case | Crystal Stacy (2007) | 2003 |
Between Brothers | 1997 | |
The Steve Harvey Show | Nina | 1996 |
Chicago Hope | 1994 | |
The Wendy Williams Show | 2008 | |
Good Day Live | Self | 2001 |
The Flash | Francine West | 2014 |
Murder One | Lila Marquette | 1995 |
40 and Single | Bertha Brown | 2018 |
Melrose Place | Rhonda | 1992 |
American Horror Stories | Dr. Eleanor Berger | 2021 |
A Luv Tale | Candice | 2021 |
LIVE with Kelly and Mark | 1988 | |
Soul Food | Maxine Chadway | 2000 |
9-1-1 | Claudette Collins | 2018 |
Phineas and Ferb | Flight Attendant (voice) | 2007 |