Cast
Vanessa Williams
Acting
Cast
Vanessa Williams
Known for
Acting
Born
1963-05-12
From
New York City, New York, USA
Also 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.
★6.7
MOVIE1991
New Jack City
as Keisha
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Like Mike
as Pharmacist
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Imagine That
as Lori Strother
★6.7
MOVIE1992
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
MOVIE2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
★5.1
MOVIE2000
Punks
as Jennifer
MOVIE2014
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
as Sandra Winslow
★4.0
MOVIE2003
Black Listed
as J.W.
★2.0
MOVIE2023
Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Playing with Fire
as Riana Roberts
★6.5
MOVIE2009
Contradictions of the Heart
as Lea
★5.3
MOVIE2008
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
★4.1
MOVIE2007
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers
MOVIE2012
Sugar Mommas
as Lynn
★4.5
MOVIE2022
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
★3.5
MOVIE1994
Drop Squad
as Mali
★5.8
MOVIE2021
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
★4.3
MOVIE2018
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
MOVIE1992
The Jaleel White Special
★5.2
MOVIE2019
One Fine Christmas
as Susan
★7.0
MOVIE1999
Incognito
as Wilhelmina Hunter
★4.7
MOVIE2021
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
★3.7
MOVIE2022
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
★6.2
MOVIE2014
Crossed the Line
as Juice
★6.8
MOVIE1996
Mother
as Donna
★10.0
MOVIE2022
Angie's Cure
as Carla
★8.0
MOVIE2002
Our America
as Sandra Williams
★8.1
MOVIE2012
Raising Izzie
as Tonya
★1.0
MOVIE2023
Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
★8.0
MOVIE2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
MOVIE2020
Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
★2.0
MOVIE2019
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Rebecca