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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 12, 1963
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Vanessa A. Williams
Vanessa Williams
0.9 Popularity
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.
Known For
1.0
Corynne
Cruel Encounters
2023
2.0
Cassandra Cole
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
3.7
Lucille
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
10.0
Carla
Angie's Cure
2022
4.4
Beverly Gordon
Mid-Century
2022
4.7
Eve Christmas
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
5.8
Aggie Maggy / Madison
A Rich Christmas
2021
6.0
Anne-Marie McCoy
Candyman
2021
7.8
Dr. Eleanor Berger
American Horror Stories
2021
6.1
Candice
A Luv Tale
2021
Credits
Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
2023
1.0
Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
2023
2.0
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
2022
3.7
Angie's Cure
as Carla
2022
10.0
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
2022
4.4
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
2021
4.7
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
2021
5.8
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
2021
6.0
American Horror Stories
as Dr. Eleanor Berger
2021
7.8
A Luv Tale
as Candice
2021
6.1
Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
2020
0.0
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Rebecca
2019
2.0
One Fine Christmas
as Susan
2019
5.2
40 and Single
as Bertha Brown
2018
9.0
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
2018
4.3
9-1-1
as Claudette Collins
2018
8.2
The Flash
as Francine West
2014
7.8
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
as Sandra Winslow
2014
0.0
Crossed the Line
as Juice
2014
6.2
Raising Izzie
as Tonya
2012
8.1
Sugar Mommas
as Lynn
2012
0.0
Imagine That
as Lori Strother
2009
6.0
Contradictions of the Heart
as Lea
2009
5.0
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
2008
5.2
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
5.5
Phineas and Ferb
as Flight Attendant (voice)
2007
7.9
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers
2007
4.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004
7.0
Cold Case
as Crystal Stacy (2007)
2003
7.8
Black Listed
as J.W.
2003
2.5
Our America
as Sandra Williams
2002
7.0
Like Mike
as Pharmacist
2002
6.1
🎬
Good Day Live
as Self
2001
3.0
Soul Food
as Maxine Chadway
2000
7.0
Punks
as Jennifer
2000
4.5
Playing with Fire
as Riana Roberts
2000
0.0
Incognito
as Wilhelmina Hunter
1999
0.0
Total Recall 2070
1999
6.1
Between Brothers
1997
0.0
Mother
as Donna
1996
6.8
The Pretender
as Denise Clements
1996
7.3
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
7.4
The Steve Harvey Show
as Nina
1996
6.9
Buddies
1996
4.7
Murder One
1995
7.8
Murder One
as Lila Marquette
1995
7.8
Drop Squad
as Mali
1994
2.8
Chicago Hope
as Grace Carr
1994
7.2
Living Single
1993
8.3
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
1992
6.7
Melrose Place
as Rhonda
1992
5.9
🎬
The Jaleel White Special
1992
0.0
New Jack City
as Keisha
1991
6.6
Law & Order
as Vera
1990
7.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
5.4
The Cosby Show
as Jade
1984
7.0
The Cosby Show
as Cheryl
1984
7.0