Vanessa Williams
ActingAlso Known As
Vanessa A. 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.
Movies
(32 total)
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Imagine That
as Lori Strother
New Jack City
as Keisha
Like Mike
as Pharmacist
Mother
as Donna
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
Raising Izzie
as Tonya
Drop Squad
as Mali
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
Punks
as Jennifer
One Fine Christmas
as Susan
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
Crossed the Line
as Juice
Black Listed
as J.W.
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
TV Shows
(25 total)
The Flash
as Francine West
9-1-1
as Claudette Collins
Phineas and Ferb
as Flight Attendant (voice)
American Horror Stories
as Dr. Eleanor Berger
Law & Order
as Vera
The Cosby Show
as Jade
The Cosby Show
as Cheryl
Cold Case
as Crystal Stacy (2007)
The Pretender
as Denise Clements
Melrose Place
as Rhonda
Chicago Hope
as Grace Carr
Murder One
as Lila Marquette
The Steve Harvey Show
as Nina
Soul Food
as Maxine Chadway
