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.
Like Mike
as Pharmacist
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
New Jack City
as Keisha
Imagine That
as Lori Strother
Mother
as Donna
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
Drop Squad
as Mali
Punks
as Jennifer
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
as Sandra Winslow
Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
Sugar Mommas
as Lynn
Our America
as Sandra Williams
Angie's Cure
as Carla
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Incognito
as Wilhelmina Hunter
The Jaleel White Special
One Fine Christmas
as Susan
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Rebecca
Black Listed
as J.W.
Crossed the Line
as Juice
Raising Izzie
as Tonya
Playing with Fire
as Riana Roberts
Contradictions of the Heart
as Lea
Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison